Essy Persson (born Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson, 15 June 1941 in Gothenburg (Sweden)) is a Swedish film actress most noted for her roles in sexploitation films. Persson made her film debut as the lead in Mac Ahlberg's Danish-Swedish erotic film Jeg - en kvinde (1965) which became the surprise box-office hit I, a Woman (1966) for Radley Metzger in the United States.