- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMaybritt Wilkens
- Height5′ 8¾″ (1.75 m)
- She was only 18 years old and working as a photographer's assistant in Stockholm when two Italians showed up. Producer Carlo Ponti and director Mario Soldati were there to see pictures of beautiful models, searching for a blonde girl for a movie. They picked her instead and soon she found herself in Rome. She quickly made a number of movies, almost all of them forgotten, where all she had to do was look beautiful. She was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox and came to Hollywood, where her part in The Blue Angel (1959) got pretty good reviews.
But she got tired of always playing the femme fatale and after marrying Sammy Davis Jr. she left the movies to take care of her children instead.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mattias Thuresson
- SpousesLennart Ringquist(May 20, 1993 - January 20, 2017) (his death)Sammy Davis Jr.(November 13, 1960 - December 20, 1968) (divorced, 3 children)Edwin Gregson(February 22, 1958 - September 29, 1959) (divorced)
- Children
- RelativesSam Garner(Grandchild)Montana Garner(Grandchild)
- In 1958 she was briefly married to actor and future horse-trainer Edwin Gregson, trainer of 1982 Kentucky Derby winner Gato Del Sol. Since 1993 she has been married to Lennart Ringqust, who was the second husband of Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat.
- Was considered for the leading female role in the Elvis Presley picture G.I. Blues (1960), but the role was eventually played by Juliet Prowse.
- Has latterly devoted her time to painting.
- Her father, Hugo Brigg-Wilkens, was a postal clerk; her mother, a housewife.
- She was discovered by producer Carlo Ponti at a retouching studio in Italy and signed to a 5-year contract. She appeared in ten Cinecittà productions.
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