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'' (1959), which was directed by her first husband,

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Biography

Annette Strøyberg was born on 7 December 1936 in the village of Rynkeby, Kerteminde Municipality,

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, and is related to Danish actress

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as the cousin of Camilla's mother. Prior to 1958, Strøyberg appeared as a cover girl, most notably in an advertisement for Tuborg beer. In 1959, she appeared in the film ''

'', directed by Roger Vadim, starring

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. During this production, she and Roger Vadim, a recent divorcé from

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, fell in love and married on 17 June 1958. Before their marriage, on 7 December 1957, she gave birth to Nathalie Vadim, who went on to be a film director. Subsequently, she appeared in a series of mostly very poorly rated entertainment films of Italian or French provenance, which revealed her lack of acting talent. In a review of those years, the German publication Die Zeit called Stroyberg's acting "unbearably exalted". Strøyberg and Vadim divorced in 1961. She lived with

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for a couple of years, and had liaisons with

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and

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. In 1967, Strøyberg married French-Moroccan sugar king Guy Senouf. They had a son, Yan (born 27 June 1967). The couple enrolled at the Sorbonne and divided their time between Paris and north Africa. In 1974, she married Greek shipping magnate Gregory Callimanopulos in New York City. They had a son, Pericles (born 20 July 1974) and settled for a time in America. In February 1986, former husband Vadim published ''Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda -- My Life With the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World'', a book about Vadim's relationships in which Strøyberg is written as passing "in and out of the other four lives" such that there is at least as much in the book about Strøyberg as the three women named in the book title. After the break-up of her relationship with Callimanopulos in the early 1990s, she returned to Europe, living in Paris and Copenhagen, where she was part of the circle around

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and Prince Henrik. She married a fourth and final time to Christian Lillelund, an attorney, in 2001.

Death

She died of cancer in

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, Denmark, on 12 December 2005, five days after her 69th birthday. She was survived by her husband and three children.

Selected filmography

*''

'' (1959) * '' Blood and Roses'' (1960) * '' I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra'' (1962) * '' Lo scippo'' (1963)

References

External links

* 1936 births 2005 deaths Deaths from cancer in Denmark Danish film actresses People from Kerteminde Municipality {{Denmark-actor-stub