Carita Järvinen

Carita Linda Järvinen (20 May 1938) was a Finnish-born French fashion model and actress who appeared in films mononymously as Carita.

Carita Järvinen in 1966.

Carita Järvinen was born in Sipoo on 20 May 1938.[1] started her modeling career in Finland during the late 1950s. In the 1960s she moved to Paris She started modeling for top designers like Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld.[2] Järvinen made her film debut in 1962 on a French Lemmy Caution movie Ladies' Man (Lemmy pour les dames).[3]

1967 she had a major role in Hammer film The Viking Queen. Järvinen received good reviews on her part as Queen Salina, but never continued her acting career.[4] In 2010, Järvinen said in an interview that, after The Viking Queen, she had rejected two roles in James Bond films.

Järvinen latterly lived in Paris. She also owned a farmhouse in Järvsö, Sweden.[5][6][7]

References
  1. Common Sense Movie Reviews Archived April 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 25 May 2012. (in Finnish)
  3. Turner Classic Movies
  4. Hammer Studios Cult Sirens
  5. Gård och Torp: Paris - Järvsö (in Swedish) Archived September 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Meet fashion illustrator Lovisa Burfitt – one of Scandinavia's brightest stars". Vogue Scandinavia. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  7. "Jarvinen, Carita Linda". MatchID. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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