Christina Lindberg

Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg (born 6 December 1950) is a Swedish journalist known internationally for her work as an erotic actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Biography

Lindberg grew up in a working-class home in Annedal, Gothenburg, together with her sister and three brothers.Videooze, Number 8, 1996 (Cult-film magazine) She studied Latin at school, and planned to continue her studies after graduation in archaeology.

Modeling career

Around 1968, in her final year of schooling (when she was 18 years old), Lindberg began posing nude for men's magazines, such as ''FIB aktuellt'' and ''Lektyr'', after having garnered some attention posing in swimsuits for Swedish newspapers.Looking for Mushrooms with Christina Lindberg
www.dvdtimes.co.uk She later appeared in prominent men's magazines, such as '' Penthouse'' (UK), ''Playboy'' (U.S.), ''Lui'' (France) and ''Mayfair'' (UK). Lindberg was "Penthouse Pet" for the June 1970 issue of ''Penthouse''.Penthouse Pets
Penthousepets.net

Film career

Lindberg has appeared or starred in 26 feature films, most of which are erotica, fictional sexploitation or softcore productions. Her first appearance in an American film, '' Maid in Sweden'' (1971) was filmed with a predominantly Swedish cast in her home country. Her first role in a Swedish film was in Jan Halldoff's comedy ''Rötmånad'' (1970). The film was seen by over 250,000 Swedes, a record for the time, and went on to become a commercial success.Swedish Film Database
Svenskfilmdatabas.se Her third film, '' Exponerad'' (1971), was released with a lot of hype at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and turned her into an international celebrity.Interviews with Lindberg and director on Swedish DVD-release of ''Exposed'' As part of the marketing campaign for ''Exponerad'', Lindberg embarked on a promotional trip across Japan, which later resulted in an invitation to appear in Japanese films. There, she played a major supporting role in Norifumi Suzuki's Pink film classic '' Sex & Fury'' (1973).

A string of sexploitation films followed, many of which were filmed in Germany or Japan. In 1973, she starred as Madeleine in Bo A. Vibenius's controversial film '' Thriller – en grym film'' (1973), and was the basis for Daryl Hannah's character Elle Driver in Tarantino's ''Kill Bill'' series of films.

Lindberg did not like that nude pictures were getting more and more explicit and, during the filming of Gerard Damiano's ''Flossie'' (AKA ''Natalie''—not to be confused with a 1974 film of the same name, which was directed by Mac Ahlberg and starred Marie Forså), in West Germany, she left the set and returned home to Sweden. Damiano (who also directed the infamous '' Deep Throat'') persuaded Lindberg to leave because he knew that it was going to be a hardcore film. For several years, the German producer tried to bring her back, in an attempt to complete the film. According to Videooze (No. 8, 1996), about 1,000 meters of film had been shot by Damiano. Production ceased and never resumed.

After a long absence from acting, Lindberg appeared in the 2016 thriller ''Lindangens Park'', the 2018 horror movie ''Svart Cirkel'' (directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano) and in the 2020 sci-fi feature ''Pandemonic''.

Post film career

In her introduction to Daniel Ekeroth's book ''Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema'', Christina Lindberg explains that after leaving exploitation films behind, she has been busy with numerous other projects. In 1972 she met future fiancé Bo Sehlberg and later started to work for his aviation magazine '' Flygrevyn''. When Sehlberg died in 2004, Lindberg took over ownership and the position as editor-in-chief of the magazine—which is the largest aviation magazine in Scandinavia. She has also produced an instructional video on how to pick and prepare mushrooms, ''Christinas Svampskola'', and is very passionate about preserving the Swedish wolf.Daniel Ekeroth: SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, (Bazillion Points, 2011) . She made an attempt to enter the theater school Scenskolan in 1975 after having taken private lessons from Öllegård Wellton, but failed after having passed two out of three tests.
Lindberg interview by Greg Gilvear She continued posing and writing for men's magazines while studying journalism at Poppius,Interviews with Lindberg on Swedish DVD-release of Wide Open and she eventually established herself as a journalist.

Selected filmography

Note: The films have been listed in order of production, based on Lindberg's diary.

References

External links

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Cristina Lindberg
Interview at DBCult Film Institute
Biography
at the Swedish Film Institute (Note: In Swedish only)
Biography (revised version)
on (re)Search my Trash
Interview
on dvdtimes.co.uk (March 2006)

Biography Psychovision.net

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