{{short description|Danish actress (1936–2005)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Annette Strøyberg | image = Il sorpasso (1962) Annette Strøyberg.png | caption = Strøyberg in ''Il Sorpasso'' (1962) | birth_name = Annette Susanne Strøyberg | birth_date = 7 December 1936 | birth_place = Rynkeby, Kerteminde Municipality, Denmark | death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|12|12|1936|12|7|df=y}} | death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1959–1965 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Roger Vadim|1958|1961|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Guy Senouf|1967|1970|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Gregory Callimanopulos|1974|1992|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Christian Lillelund|2001|2005}} }} | partner = Vittorio Gassman (former) }}
'''Annette Susanne Strøyberg''' (7 December 1936<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?epid=17138291#180996,30732883|title=Arkivalieronline|last=Danish Church Records for Rynkeby sogn, Denmark|website=www.sa.dk|publisher=Danish Church Records|access-date=18 September 2016}}</ref> – 12 December 2005) was a Danish actress. Her films included ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (1959), which was directed by her first husband, Roger Vadim.
==Biography== Annette Strøyberg was born on 7 December 1936<ref name= "Obituary">{{Citation |author=Annette Stroyberg |publication-date=20 December 2005 |title=Obituary: Annette Strøyberg |work= Liverpool Daily Post |page=13 |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-139949897 |accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> in the village of Rynkeby, Kerteminde Municipality, Denmark, and is related to Danish actress Camilla Søeberg as the cousin of Camilla's mother.<ref>{{Citation |author=William Arnold |publication-date=8 June 1994|title=Danish Superstar Returns To Acting After 'Having A Life' |work= Seattle Post-Intelligencer |page=C1 }}</ref> Prior to 1958, Strøyberg appeared as a cover girl, most notably in an advertisement for Tuborg beer.<ref>{{Citation |author=Jean-Luc Douin |publication-date=17 December 2005 |title=Annette Stroyberg |work= Le Monde|page=37 |url= http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=927783&xtmc=la_comedienne_annette_stroyberg_est_morte&xtcr=1|accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> In 1959, she appeared in the film ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'', directed by then-husband Roger Vadim, starring Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau. She and Vadim had one daughter, Nathalie, born out of wedlock on 7 December 1957, just one day after his divorce from Brigitte Bardot was finalized.<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Kiernan|title=Jane Fonda: Heroine for Our Time|year=1982|publisher=Delilah Books|isbn=0933328214|page=133}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author=John-Thor Dahlburg |publication-date= 12 February 2000|title=Roger Vadim, 72; French Filmmaker And Romancer |work= Los Angeles Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=20000212&id=MvRYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-OsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5813,2898421 |accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> The couple were married from 1958 to 1961.<ref>{{cite news| title=Divorce in Paris|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=15 March 1961|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/374792804}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author=Marian Christy |publication-date= 23 April 1986|title= Mr. Kiss and Tell|work= The Boston Globe|page= 61|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/294286487 |access-date=26 January 2014|id= {{ProQuest|294286487}}}}</ref>
Subsequently, she appeared in a series of mostly very poorly rated{{by whom?|date=November 2024}} entertainment films of Italian or French provenance, which revealed her lack of acting talent{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}. In a review of those years, the German publication Die Zeit called Stroyberg's acting "unbearably exalted"{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}.
Strøyberg lived with Vittorio Gassman for a couple of years, and had liaisons with Alain Delon, Omar Sharif and Warren Beatty. In 1967, Strøyberg married French-Moroccan sugar king Guy Senouf. They had a son, Yan (born 27 June 1967). The couple enrolled at the Sorbonne and divided their time between Paris and north Africa. In 1974, she married Greek shipping magnate Gregory Callimanopulos in New York City. They had a son, Pericles (born 20 July 1974) and settled for a time in America.
In February 1986, former husband Vadim published ''Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda -- My Life With the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World'', a book about Vadim's relationships in which Strøyberg is written as passing "in and out of the other four lives" such that there is at least as much in the book about Strøyberg as the three women named in the book title.<ref>{{Citation |author=Bill Cosford |publication-date=8 May 1986 |title=Beauties and the Beast |work= Miami Herald |page=1B |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=MH&p_product=MH&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=miami&s_trackval=MH&s_search_type=customized&s_dispstring=(beauties)%20AND%20date(05/08/1986%20to%2005/08/1986)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=05/08/1986%20to%2005/08/1986)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(beauties)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> After the break-up of her relationship with Callimanopulos in the early 1990s, she returned to Europe, living in Paris and Copenhagen, where she was part of the circle around Margrethe II of Denmark and Prince Henrik. She married a fourth and final time to Christian Lillelund, an attorney, in 2001.
==Death== She died of cancer in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 December 2005, five days after her 69th birthday.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="TimesObit">{{cite news|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2087445.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200226055647/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2087445.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2020|title=Annette Stroyberg|date=17 December 2005|work=The Times|accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref> She was survived by her husband and three children.<ref>{{Citation |author=Ronald Bergan |publication-date=21 December 2005 |title=Annette Stroyberg - Sensuous film actor unsuited to the role of Brigitte Bardot |work= The Guardian |date=22 December 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/22/guardianobituaries.film |accessdate=26 January 2014}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== *''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (1959) * ''Blood and Roses'' (1960) * ''I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra'' (1962) * ''Lo scippo'' (1963)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|name=Annette Stroyberg|id=0883006}}
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