Anita Ekberg
Today it was announced that the Swedish-born star of La Dolce Vita, Anita Ekberg, has died in Rome at age 83. I had the pleasure of taking Anita’s portraits 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden.
She was best known for her role in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita, in which she played Sylvia Rank, the unattainable “dream woman” of the suave journalist played by Marcello Mastroianni. In the most famous scene of the film, Ekberg wades into the Trevi fountain on an eerily quiet night in Rome in a long strapless black dress and sensually invites Mastroianni to join her.