Essy Persson (born Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson, 15 June 1941 in

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) is a

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film actress most noted for her role in the

sexploitation film A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit se ...

I, a Woman ''I, a Woman'' (original Danish language, Danish: ''Jeg - en kvinde'') is a 1965 black-and-white Danish-Swedish erotic film whose break-through popularity helped initiate a wave of sexploitation films into mainstream American theaters in the late ...

''.

Career

Persson made her film debut as the lead in

Mac Ahlberg Mac Ahlberg (12 June 1931 – 26 October 2012) was a Swedish film director and cinematographer. Biography In the years 1952–1954 he was married to Ulla Olofsson (1923–2009) and 1955–1961 to the actress Anna-Greta Bergman. He had a daughte ...

's Danish-Swedish erotic film '' Jeg - en kvinde'' (1965) which became the surprise box-office hit ''

'' (1966) for

Radley Metzger Radley Metzger (January 21, 1929 – March 31, 2017) was an American filmmaker and film distributor, most noted for popular artistic pornographic films, including '' Thérèse and Isabelle'' (1968), '' Camille 2000'' (1969), '' The Lickerish ...

in the United States. She appeared in the German film ' (1967) and in ''

Mission Stardust ''Mission Stardust'' (, ) is a 1967 science fiction film based on the early novels of the popular German '' Perry Rhodan'' series by K.H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting. Plot In a quest to find a source of radioactive material more powerful than u ...

'' (1967), and then Metzger hired Persson for a title character in his 1968 French film ''

Therese and Isabelle ''Thérèse and Isabelle'' () is a 1968 erotic drama film directed by Radley Metzger from a screenplay by Jesse Vogel, based on the 1966 novel ''Thérèse et Isabelle'' by Violette Leduc. Plot Two young girls grow up together and share affecti ...

'' about a lesbian sexual affair between two schoolgirls. She later appeared in the 1970 horror film '' Cry of the Banshee'', and in 1971 in '' Want So Much To Believe''. Persson performed in roles on two Swedish television series and then left acting.

Education

After retiring from acting, Persson studied art at

Konsthögskolan Valand HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design () is a school for film, photography, literary composition, and fine art at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its precursors trace back to 1848 and 1865, and in this sense is older than the Uni ...

and

Konstfack Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the eth ...

from 1981 to 1984 and became a visual artist.

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* 1941 births Living people Actresses from Gothenburg Swedish film actresses {{Sweden-film-actor-stub