Named Miss Sweden

Moved to L.A.

Film acting debut in "Terras foster No. 5"

Went to America to compete in Miss Universe contest

Worked as model

US film debut in "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" and "The Golden Blade"

Played a character loosely based on herself in "Artists and Models", featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Made guest appearance on the ABC TV series "Casablanca" playing Ilsa (the role created in the film by Ingrid Bergman)

Had one of her best Hollywood roles as Helene in King Vidor's "War and Peace"

Delivered what is perhaps her best-known performance as the movie star Sylvia in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", co-starring Marcello Mastroianni

Reteamed with Fellini for "Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio", his segment of "Boccacio '70"

Co-starred with Shirley MacLaine in Vittorio de Sica's "Woman Times Seven"

Played herself in Fellini's "I Pagliacci/Clowns"

US TV-movie debut, portrayed the queen in "Gold of the Amazon Women" (NBC)

With Mastroianni, appeared as themselves in Fellini's mock documentary "Intervista"

Acted in "Il Conte Max", a film directed by Christian de Sica (son of Vittorio)

Played an elderly restaurant owner who is killed in a gas explosion in ""Bambola"

Appeared as a flamboyant opera star who is romance by the titular character in "Le Nain rouge/The Red Dwarf" (released in the USA in 1999)