Yutte Stensgaard, born Jytte Stensgaard, (14 May 1946), is a Danish actress best known for playing Carmilla Karnstein in Lust for a Vampire.
She moved to England at the age of 17 to learn how to speak better English. For the next five years, she did au pair work and modelling, before acting for the first time in the 1968 film, The Girl with the Pistol. Following her film debut, Stensgaard made small appearances in other films including Zeta One, Some Girls Do, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Carry On Again Doctor, Scream and Scream Again, and Doctor in Trouble.
Stensgaard wasn't only a film actress, racking up guest roles in The Saint, Broaden Your Mind, On the Buses, Special Branch, The Adventures of Don Quick, Jason King, The Persuaders!, The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, and Dead of Night. She also had a slightly bigger role as Helga in the first series of Doctor in the House and auditioned for the role of Jo Grant in Doctor Who.
In 1971, she starred in Lust for a Vampire, taking over for an absent Ingrid Pitt. This would go on to become Stensgaard's most famous role and cemented her as a Hammer Horror icon. The following year, she gave up acting and moved to America, where she worked at a radio station.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Films- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) — Museum Guide (Uncredited Role)
- Carry On Again Doctor (1969) — Trolley Nurse (Uncredited Role)
- Scream and Scream Again (1970) — Erika
- Doctor in Trouble (1970) — Eve
- Carry On Loving (1970) — Mrs. Roxby (Deleted Role)
- Lust for a Vampire (1971) — Carmilla Karnstein
- The Saint, episode "The Desperate Diplomat" (1968) — Telephone Operator
- Doctor in the House, 5 episodesshow list (1969) — Helga
- On the Buses, episode "The New Uniforms" (1970) — Ingrid
- Jason King, episode "As Easy as A.B.C." (1971) — Arlene
- The Persuaders!, episode "The Morning After" (1971) — Bibi Bergman
