Essy Persson
Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson (born 15 June 1941 in Gothenburg Johanneberg, Sweden ) is a Swedish actress inactive today at domestic and international film.
Life and work
Essy Persson began her career as a secretary and attended during which a private acting school. Her artistic career took place in 1963 began on Riksteatern in the play Caution in-law. Later, the attractive blonde moved to the Stockholm City Theatre, where she was discovered for the film. After a small role in 1964 was in the following year for the female lead role of libertine, Siv nymphomaniac in the speculative Danish canvas product I - committed to a woman.
The international success of this adult film precursor Essy Persson brought one hand, worldwide fame overnight, but on the other hand led to the fact that the Göteborgerin has now henceforth set to permissive, sensual and männerverschlingende seductresses and Amazons. In 1966 she received from Italy the lead female role in the failed Perry Rhodan product Perry Rhodan - SOS from outer space, in the following year from the part of Germany icy moll Betty Rolf Olsen's trashy criminal history The rest house of the cruel dolls. Still in 1967, she was the part of the young Therese offered, the wistful, looking back in the thematically speculative, but very cautious unreacted film Therese and Isabell on her lesbian relationship with her love boarding school in France, Isabell. Current U.S. production turned it on English.
Essy Persson's international career ended after the participation in the British horror film The Shout of the witches, where she played alongside Vincent Price and Elisabeth Bergner, just as quickly as it had begun. Since the early 70s, the actress was seen only in Swedish films. A certain degree of popularity it gained in 1970 with her Maj -Britt in the TV series Söderkåkar. Skärgården After her part in another miniseries, Ett köpmanshus i, Essy Persson is moved in 1973 largely withdrew from the drama industry. Instead, she began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and attended from 1981 to 1984 the Konstfack. Since then she has worked as a visual artist. Recently (2011) Essy Persson lived in the settlement Hamburgsund near Tanum.