Yutte Stensgaard (born 14 May 1946) is a Danish actress born in
Thisted, Jutland, Denmark, best known for her starring role in
Hammer's Lust for a Vampire (1971).Born Jytte Stensgaard, she moved to
the United Kingdom to improve her English in 1963. She worked as an au
pair, studied stenography and became a model for a time. Stensgaard
began her acting career in the film La Ragazza con la pistola (The
Girl with the Pistol, 1968). She then played parts in diverse UK
TV-series: The Saint (1968; episode: "The Desperate Diplomat");
Broaden Your Mind (1969); Doctor in the House (1969/70) - in which she
played the recurring role of Helga, Dave Briddock's girlfriend; On the
Buses (1970; episode: "The New Uniforms", as Ingrid, a Swedish
tourist); Special Branch (1970; episode: "Miss International" as Nina
Sareth); sci-fi comedy series The Adventures of Don Quick (1970; as
Flosshilda); Jason King (1971; as Arlene in the episode "As Easy as
A.B.C."); The Persuaders! (1971; playing Bibi, a Judo instructress who
assists Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) in the episode "The Morning After");
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1972), and anthology series Dead of
Night (1972; as Gertrude Wickett in the episode "Bedtime").Her film
parts include the Bulldog Drummond film Some Girls Do (1969) as Robot
One; she played small parts in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
(1969), Scream and Scream Again (1970) and Doctor In Trouble (1970).
She also appeared in the low-budget sci-fi sex comedy Zeta One
(1969).Stensgaard's most famous role is that of the vampire
Carmilla/Mircalla in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire (1971). The film was
the sequel to The Vampire Lovers (1970), which had starred Ingrid Pitt
as Mircalla. The original film was an adaptation of Carmilla by Joseph
Sheridan Le Fanu. However, Lust for a Vampire shared little with the
novel; it only used the vampire characters, and was thus a completely
new story. In the film, the bisexual Carmilla infiltrates an all-girl
boarding school while falling in love with a novelist.
Thisted, Jutland, Denmark, best known for her starring role in
Hammer's Lust for a Vampire (1971).Born Jytte Stensgaard, she moved to
the United Kingdom to improve her English in 1963. She worked as an au
pair, studied stenography and became a model for a time. Stensgaard
began her acting career in the film La Ragazza con la pistola (The
Girl with the Pistol, 1968). She then played parts in diverse UK
TV-series: The Saint (1968; episode: "The Desperate Diplomat");
Broaden Your Mind (1969); Doctor in the House (1969/70) - in which she
played the recurring role of Helga, Dave Briddock's girlfriend; On the
Buses (1970; episode: "The New Uniforms", as Ingrid, a Swedish
tourist); Special Branch (1970; episode: "Miss International" as Nina
Sareth); sci-fi comedy series The Adventures of Don Quick (1970; as
Flosshilda); Jason King (1971; as Arlene in the episode "As Easy as
A.B.C."); The Persuaders! (1971; playing Bibi, a Judo instructress who
assists Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) in the episode "The Morning After");
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1972), and anthology series Dead of
Night (1972; as Gertrude Wickett in the episode "Bedtime").Her film
parts include the Bulldog Drummond film Some Girls Do (1969) as Robot
One; she played small parts in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
(1969), Scream and Scream Again (1970) and Doctor In Trouble (1970).
She also appeared in the low-budget sci-fi sex comedy Zeta One
(1969).Stensgaard's most famous role is that of the vampire
Carmilla/Mircalla in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire (1971). The film was
the sequel to The Vampire Lovers (1970), which had starred Ingrid Pitt
as Mircalla. The original film was an adaptation of Carmilla by Joseph
Sheridan Le Fanu. However, Lust for a Vampire shared little with the
novel; it only used the vampire characters, and was thus a completely
new story. In the film, the bisexual Carmilla infiltrates an all-girl
boarding school while falling in love with a novelist.
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