Essy Persson

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Essy Persson (born Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson, 15 June 1941 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish film actress most noted for her role in the sexploitation film I, a Woman .

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Career

Persson made her film debut as the lead in Mac Ahlberg's Danish-Swedish erotic film Jeg - en kvinde (1965) which became the surprise box-office hit I, a Woman (1966) for Radley Metzger in the United States. She appeared in the German film Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen  [ de ] (1967) and in Mission Stardust (1967), and then Metzger hired Persson for a title character in his 1968 French film Therese and Isabelle 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. [1]

Education

After retiring from acting, Persson studied art at Konsthögskolan Valand and Konstfack from 1981 to 1984 and became a visual artist. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Stevenson, Jack (2015). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. p. 264-66. ISBN   9780786444885.
  2. ↑ Quist, P.O. (2004). "Essy Persson". Biography (in Swedish). Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 31 October 2014.


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