International film star Anita Ekberg has passed away. The actress well remembered for the 1960 Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita died in Rocca di Papa in southeast Rome. Her lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi confirmed, disclosing that Ekberg passed away due to complications from an illness. She was 83 years-old.

Ekberg is well known for the memorable scene in La Dolce Vita when she was in the Trevi Fountain beckoning Marcello Mastroianni’s character, cementing her place in film history. She was born Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekbert in September 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. One of eight children, she did some modeling as a teenager. Her first film was in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars in 1953. Over the next few years she starred in Bloody Alley, Artists and Models, Hollywood or Bust, 4 for Texas, and Call Me Bwana.

She traveled overseas to entertain American troops in the 1950s as a sex symbol and Bob Hope even joked that her parents won a Nobel Prize for architecture. Her career spanned five decades and her last screen appearance was in 2002 on the Italian TV show Il Bello Delle Donne. One of her last public appearances was a film festival in Rome in 2010 for the world premiere of a restored version of La Dolce Vita.