Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born in September 29, 1931 in Malmö, Sweden) was a model and actress. The 1951 Miss Sweden -- she competed in the Miss Universe pageant -- she is right-known for her role when Sylvia inside La Dolce Vita, directed by the late Federico Fellini.

Ethel Merman dubbed a easily-sonsy Ekberg (measuring 40-22-36) "the thinking man's dunce cap: two of them." Bob Hope joked that her parents had received a Nobel Prize for architecture.

She mass produced numerous motion-picture show, however couple within English. Among her virtually all large films come a sale-budget Screaming Mimi in 1958, Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960, in which she played a unachievable "dream woman"; ''Boccaccio '70 in 1962, a movie that also featured Sophia Loren; two films in 1966, The Alphabet Murders and Way...Way Out, the latter introducing Linda Harrison in her first movie; Woman Times Seven in 1967, with Shirley MacLaine; and a small role in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' in 1969.

Ekberg was married to the British actor Anthony Steel from either 1956 to 1959. From either 1963 to 1975, she was married to the actor Rik Van Nutter; in the period of their marriage, she got many miscarriages, however there is no successful gestation.

She reportedly besides was romantically exposed by owning Tyrone Power, Marcello Mastroianni, Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra, and Gary Cooper; she also experienced a troika-season affair by having the late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli.

She has lived alone around Rome, Italy for many years.