Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg was an Italian-German actress, artist and model who began as a fashion model in Paris and appeared in more than a dozen films over four decades. She had lived in Germany, Rome and New York before settling in London, and in New York she performed with the Living Theatre in Paradise Now and spent time at Andy Warhol's Factory. Her early roles included the Great Tyrant in Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), with her voice dubbed by Joan Greenwood, and the sleeper wife of Michel Piccoli in Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead (1969). She also appeared in the avant-garde Performance (1970) as Pherber, and Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil (1968). Later she played The Queen in Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely (2007) and Sin in Go Go Tales (2007). In the 1990s she studied fashion and graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1994. She was the subject of the 2024 documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg.