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After projectionDr. No, the first oneJames Bond movieIn 1962 and well before being a "bond daughter" was an established career path,Britt Ekland knew she wanted Star in front of the Super Spy of Debonir one day. Twelve years later, after she became famous for marrying the actorPeter sellers and featuring typing films such asGet Carter andThe wicker man-She did that happen, appearing like Mary good eveningThe man with the golden pistol, although opposedRoger Moore rather thanSean Connery.

The role has transformed it into a symbol of international sex and, for a while, its relationships jacching the tabloids. But where is she today? Keep reading to find out what 79-year-old star is it doing today.

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Although his status as a leap girl has made her famous worldwide, he did not really ignite the career as an actor of Ekland. She continued to appear in films in the 1970s and 80s, thrillers often uncommon and horror rates, includingHigh speed,Treasure of King Solomon,The monster club,The mistress of Satan,Moon in the scorpionAnd the direct comedy to the videoBEVERLY HILLS VAMP Star opposite fatEddie Deezen.

She was better luck on television, guests featuring in the 1980s and early 1990s on popular series, includingBattlestar Galactica,The love boat,Fantastic island,The picking guy,Simon and Simon,Super boy, andAbsolutely fabulous.

For a time, Ekland's fame as an actor was compelling by the gossip and the turmoil surrounding his relationships. In 1964, she married the sellers 10 days after meeting her, becoming the famous day at the international level. Both had a rock relationship; Although she became a stepmother on her two children, the sellers were possessing and controlling,she saidExpress 2020. The pair had a girl,Victoriain 1965 and divorced in 1968.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

After a relationship with the record producerLou Adler who produced his second child,Nicolai Adler, born in 1973, Ekland became involved in the singerRod Stewart After having been submitted to him in 1975 byJoan Collins. They lived together for two years, during which Stewart would have beenmakes his payroll rent. She laterpursued him for palimony.

In 1984, she married the drummer of wandering catsSlim Jim Phantom, who was 19 years old less than her. They had a son,Thomas Jeffersonin 1988 and went from separate ways in 1992.

Today, Ekland is happy single. She saidThe GuardianIn 2020 she practiced "Personal partnership. "

In recent years, Eklund has appeared on the screen most often as itselves, which rebounds from one reality to another. She finished ninth place the tenth season of the British seriesI am a celebrity ... get out of here! In 2009, and appeared in two seasons of the Swedish seriesSwedish Hollywood women From 2013 to 2015. In 2018, at the age of 75, it was the oldest competition on the Swedish dance competition showDance.

More recently, she participated in the BBC One travel documentary seriesTHE TRUE MARIGOLD HOTEL, in which a group of older British celebrities travel to India become familiar with culture. "The main reason I wanted to go to India is that I can not take poverty and depletion"EKLUND saidThe post of Sunday In 2018. "With Marigold Hotel, it is not a question of living in luxury hotels and swimming in the waters of white sand beaches. It lived among the real people. This is the main reason I am go."

EKLUND has not acted in films or television in recent years - its last film role was in 1990Kiddingand she appeared on television in 2002 in the low-budget Canadian SC-Fi seriesLexx-But it has become a steady surprise.

Although it has oncesuffered from a terrible fright, according to an interview of 2012 withThe daily mail, she conquered her fears and continued to appear in the productions ofCinderella,The old grumpy women live, andJacques and the magic bean In the theaters of the U.K. and can be often seenIn British pantomimes. More recently she shotThe cat and the canary, a mysterious thriller who visited the U.K. EN 2021.

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One of Ekland's grandchildren,Lucas (born of his second child, Nic Adler) was diagnosed withadrenoleukodystrophy, an untreated genetic disorder, shortly after birth. Its condition was diagnosed during a routine medical screening in California; Because it was detected early, the progression of the symptoms can be managed. Since then, Ekland has worked with the US Charitable Alex TLC to see adrenoleukodystrophy added to the list of conditions regularly examined at birth in the United States.

"Lucas and his family were saved from devastation by a simple blood test at birth and because of this, his cousins ​​in the UK have now been tested"Ekland saidDaily registration. "Eu his father Nicholai, my son, born in Great Britain, was an American resident, Lucas would not have been so lucky."

Ekland has also supported the Alzheimer Society for more than a decade,according toBELFAST TELEGRAPH; His mother was diagnosed with the condition in the 80s.

"I think if you can use your reputation for something useful, other than the 15 minutes that young people today have totally useless, then you have to"Ekland saidTime and leisure 2020.

Although it has been almost 50 years sinceThe man with the golden pistol, Ekland always looks at his time with the largest secret agent in the world. She even attended the first of the last bond movie,No time to die, at the Royal Albert Room in England in September 2021.

"As it was not important because I had made a lot of movies before, Bond was just something I wanted to do"She told HuffPost In 2012. "I liked the idea of ​​... be a woman of action - In the 1960s, we just played sex kittens. I did not know it would be this big, but during the 10 At the last 15 years, it was great., Because I'm doing [theater], and it's 'Britt Ekland - Bond Girl' and it's just a supergie tag today. "

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