| Christina Lindberg | |
| Birth Name: | Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg |
| Birth Date: | 6 December 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Years Active: | 1970–present |
| Occupation: | Actress, Model, Journalist |
Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg (born 6 December 1950) is a Swedish journalist known internationally for her work as an actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Lindberg grew up in a working-class home in Annedal, Gothenburg, together with her sister and three brothers.[1] She studied Latin at school, and planned to continue her studies after graduation in archaeology.
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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5] 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). Director Quentin Tarantino has expressed his admiration for both the film and Lindberg's performance,[6] with Madeleine later serving as the basis for Daryl Hannah's character Elle Driver in his Kill Bill series of films.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9] 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.[10] She continued posing and writing for men's magazines while studying journalism at Poppius,[11] and she eventually established herself as a journalist.
Note: The films have been listed in order of production, based on Lindberg's diary.[1]
| Year | Movie | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Rötmånad (What Are You Doing After the Orgy?) | Anna Bella Gustafsson | Major supporting role | |
| 1971 | Yusra | It's unclear whether Lindberg actually appears in this film (her scenes may have been cut)[12] | ||
| 1971 | Maid in Sweden (Jena) | Inga | Starring role (credited as Kristina Lindberg); filmed entirely in English | |
| 1971 | Smoke | Annie | Minor supporting role. Annie was based on the US comic strip character Little Orphan Annie. | |
| 1971 | Exponerad (Exposed) | Lena Svensson | Starring role (credited as Cristina Lindberg) | |
| 1972 | Swedish Wildcats (Every Afternoon) | Helga | Brief appearances | |
| 1972 | Young Playthings | Gunilla | Starring role | |
| 1972 | Mädchen, die nach München kommen (Sex at the Olympics) | Anja | Minor supporting role | |
| 1972 | Schulmädchen-Report 4. Teil – Was Eltern oft verzweifeln lässt (Campus Swingers) | Barbara Heinbach | Minor supporting role. The American version is 20 mins. shorter, and many of Lindberg's scenes have been cut | |
| 1973 | Liebe in drei Dimensionen (Love in 3-D) | Inge | Minor supporting role | |
| 1973 | Was Schulmädchen verschweigen (What Schoolgirls Don't Tell) | Minor supporting role | ||
| 1973 | (Around The World With Fanny Hill) | Meatball Model | Brief appearances | |
| 1973 | Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (Sex & Fury) | Christina | Major supporting role | |
| 1973 | (Journey to Japan) | Ingrid Jacobsen | Major supporting role | |
| 1973 | Wide Open (Sängkamrater) | Eva | Minor supporting role | |
| 1973 | Anita – ur en tonårsflickas dagbok (Anita: Swedish Nymphet) | Anita | Starring role. There are several versions of the film, including a US version with hardcore inserts which were shot later (Lindberg didn't participate in these scenes). The hardcore version has not been released on DVD. | |
| 1974 | Thriller – en grym film (They Call Her One Eye) | Madeleine/Frigga/One Eye | Starring role | |
| 1977 | Bloodsample Nurse | Brief appearances | ||
| 1979 | There Is a Sunrise Every Morning | Cavegirl | Eco-drama/documentary | |
| 1980 | Attentatet (Outrage) | Brief appearances | ||
| 1980 | Sverige åt svenskarna (Battle of Sweden) | French Mistress | Brief appearances | |
| 1982 | One-Week Bachelors (Gräsänklingar) | Stripper (Uncredited) | Brief appearances | |
| 1993 | Christinas Svampskola | (Herself) | 20 min. instructional video about mushrooms | |
| 2000 | Sex, lögner & videovåld (Sex, Lies & Videoviolence) | Frigga/Madeleine/One Eye (Cameo) | A non-commercial video parody of a variety of well known movies. Made by Swedish film fans working themselves in movie and entertainment business, shot in 1990–1993 |