--- description: The beautiful star of Fellini's La Dolce Vita passed away Sunday in Rome title: Swedish-Italian Screen Siren Anita Ekberg Dies at 83 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c97c8e53dbc8814/6987794a524fc03868debd6e/anita-eckberg-la-dolce-vita-011.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Swedish-Italian Screen Siren Anita Ekberg Dies at 83 by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 11, 2015 4:16 PM CUT  Ekberg as the Marilyn Monroe-like Sylvia, playing in Rome's Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita in1960. Ekberg as the Marilyn Monroe-like Sylvia, playing in Rome's Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita in1960.Silver Screen Collection—Getty Images by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 11, 2015 4:16 PM CUT  Ekberg as the Marilyn Monroe-like Sylvia, playing in Rome's Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita in 1960. John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  Miss Sweden, Anita Ekberg, 1951. Lisa Larsen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Bob Hope leaves for the Thule Air Force Base in Greenland on Dec. 30, 1954 with Eckberg and other entertainers. William Holden—Bettmann/Corbis  Ekberg as the Marilyn Monroe-like Sylvia, playing in Rome's Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita in1960. Silver Screen Collection—Getty Images  Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita in 1960. Getty Images  Ekberg dances in one of Vita's most memorable scenes, in 1960. Getty Images  Ekberg clasps hands with the dashing Marcello Mastroianni in a scene from the film 'La Dolce Vita' in 1960. Getty Images  A color portrait of Ekberg circa 1960. Popperfoto/Getty Images  Ekberg checks her hair between takes of Call Me Bwana on Nov. 8, 1962. John Pratt—Getty Images  Ekberg attends a screening of the restored version of La Dolce Vita, posing next to a poster featuring herself and co-star Mastroianni ,at the Piazza Maggiore on July 6, 2010 in Bologna. Roberto Serra—Iguana Press/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3662794/anita-ekberg-gallery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3662794/anita-ekberg-gallery/"},"headline":"Swedish-Italian Screen Siren Anita Ekberg Dies at 83","datePublished":"2015-01-11T16:16:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:06:18.244Z","description":"The beautiful star of Fellini's La Dolce Vita passed away Sunday in Rome","url":"https://time.com/3662794/anita-ekberg-gallery/","keywords":["movies","remembrance","photography","Model","actress"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c97c8e53dbc8814/6987794a524fc03868debd6e/anita-eckberg-la-dolce-vita-011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c97c8e53dbc8814/6987794a524fc03868debd6e/anita-eckberg-la-dolce-vita-011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"La Dolce Vita","caption":"La Dolce Vita","creditText":"Silver Screen Collection—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3662794/anita-ekberg-gallery/","name":"Swedish-Italian Screen Siren Anita Ekberg Dies at 83"}}]}] ```