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{{Cast Data
| image=Tenna.jpg
| character= [[Tenna]]
| series=TOS
| born_day= 6
| born_month= 10
| born_year= 1942
| nationality= SE
| imdb= 0001180
| sortkey=Ekland, Britt
}}

'''Britt-Marie Eklund''' (Born October 6, 1942, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish actress who played [[Tenna]] in "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]" and "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II|Part II]]".

Ekland established herself as a "Swedish bombshell" in the 1960s during her first marriage to legendary British comedian [[w: Peter Sellers|Peter Sellers]] with whom she appeared in the movies ''After The Fox'' (1966) and ''The Bobo'' (1967).    Following her divorce from Sellers in 1968, she continued her film career successfully in ''Get Carter'' (1971) and the James Bond film, ''[[w:The Man With The Golden Gun (film)|The Man With The Golden Gun]]''.   She had a long-term relationship with singer [[w:Rod Stewart|Rod Stewart]] during this period.

From the 1980s on, her acting roles were more in independent films though she played Superman's mother Lara in a two-part episode of the 1990 TV series ''Superboy'' (former big-screen 007 George Lazenby played Jor-El).

In 2004, Ekland was portrayed by Charlize Theron in the cable-movie ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers''.

==Notes==

*Previously worked for Glen Larson on two episodes of ''McCloud'' which represented her first ever appearances on a US television series.
*One of four original series performers who appeared in a James Bond film, along with [[Jane Seymour]], [[Patrick Macnee]] and [[Bruce Glover]].