Essy Persson (born Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson, 15 June 1941 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish film actress most noted for her role in the sexploitation film I, a Woman.
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.
She appeared in the German film Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen [de] (1967) and in Mission Stardust (1967), and then Metzger hired Persson for a title character in his 1968 French film Therese and Isabelle about a lesbian sexual affair between two schoolgirls.
Persson performed in roles on two Swedish television series and then left acting.
[1] After retiring from acting, Persson studied art at Konsthögskolan Valand and Konstfack from 1981 to 1984 and became a visual artist.