Person Biography:
Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg, born on December 6, 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a stunning brunette beauty who rose to fame in the 1970s as a popular pin-up girl and sex symbol. Born into a working-class family with one sister and two brothers, Christina grew up on the isle of Hisingen, where she studied Latin and dreamed of becoming an archaeologist.
However, her plans took a different turn when she started modeling in bathing suits for several newspapers, and eventually, she began doing nude pictorials in men's magazines such as "FIB-Aktuellt", "Penthouse", "Playboy", "Lui", "Oui", and "Mayfair". In 1970, she even recorded a two-sided 45 rpm vinyl single with her face on the cover, for the FIB-Aktuellt label.
Christina's film debut was a starring role as the naive, virginal, yet enticing, 16-year-old Inga in Maid in Sweden (1971). She went on to play minor and major roles as tantalizing sexpots in racy exploitation fare, including Dog Days (1970),The Depraved (1971),Campus Swingers (1972),The Swinging Co-eds (1972),Secrets of Sweet Sixteen (1973),and Anita (1973).
Christina is especially memorable as British spy and gambler Christina, in the Japanese crime pink movie Sex & Fury (1973). She appeared in two soft-core flicks for acclaimed adult picture writer-director Joseph W. Sarno: the lackluster Swedish Wildcats (1972) and the gloriously bizarre Young Playthings (1972). Her most enduring cult cinema fame stems from her outstanding performance as Frigga, a much abused and traumatized one-eyed mute junkie prostitute, who exacts a harsh retribution on her tormentors in the brutal and controversial revenge opus Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973).
In the early 1970s, Christina was the onetime girlfriend of Swedish king King Carl XVI Gustaf. However, her acting career began to falter in the mid-1970s due to her refusal to do hardcore sex scenes. Christina studied journalism in the late 1970s and subsequently wrote articles for various men's magazines.
She returned to movies in 2000, in a cameo of her Frigga character in the over-the-top parody Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000). Christina is an animal rights activist, an environmentalist, and a vegetarian. She owns two Siamese cats and is a keen mushroom picker, and shared her knowledge in 1993 in a 20-minute short, "Christina's Mushroom School".
Today, Christina lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where she is the owner and editor-in-chief of the aviation magazine "Flygrevyn", which she took over following her fiancé Bo Sehlberg's death in 2004.
