Janet Agren

Janet Agren is a Swedish former actress and model whose screen career is tied to Italian exploitation films. She was born in Landskrona and began working as a model after winning a beauty contest in Copenhagen; her assignments included work for Christian Dior. Modeling brought her to Rome, where she trained in acting at Alessandro Fersen's drama school. Her first film was Luciano Salce's Colpo di stato. Early parts followed, such as a receptionist in Michael Caine's Pulp (1972) and a nurse in the Jack Lemmon comedy Avanti! (1972). Across a career that included 57 films, she acted in The Left Hand of the Law (1975), City of the Living Dead (1980), Umberto Lenzi's Eaten Alive! (1980), Panic (1982), Red Sonja (1985), the Bud Spencer comedy Aladdin (1986), and Ratman (1988). During the early 1980s she also spent a brief period making music.