Trivia

To date, the only Norwegian Bond girl (in the James Bond film Au service secret de Sa Majesté (1969)).

Was Miss Norway in 1962 and competed in a Miss Universe pageant.

After quitting acting, got a degree in nursing and worked in Oslo as a nurse.

Married and divorced twice by 1970; first married to Alf Kruger-Monsen, a Norwegian Army officer who was 12 years older than she was and then married to Erland Skatten, an English dentist who was 15 years older than she was.

Was successfully treated for breast cancer in 1986.

Given the title "The New Sex Symbol of the 1970s" by Sir James Carreras, the studio head of Hammer Films. Hammer featured her as a not-so-glamorous cavewoman in its film Violence et sexe aux temps préhistoriques (1971). The film was a flop, but Ege went on a round-the-world publicity tour and became a leading pin-up model.

A former Penthouse Pet of the Month (May 1967).

Has one daughter, Joanna Kruger-Monsen (b.1969), who lives in Shanghai, China.

The BBC made a special with her on The Money Programme (1966) to see how much money was invested in making her a star.

Lived for six years in the 1970s with Tony Bramwell, a former assistant to The Beatles and later a successful record and film music promoter. Their next door neighbor was Brian May, a member of the rock group Queen.

Pronounced her last name "eg-gay", not "edge". However, the British media, during her London years, always called her "Julie Edge", perhaps because her co-star in her first major British film, comedian Marty Feldman, nicknamed her "The Naked Edge".

Was honored with a film festival in 1995 at the Rockefeller Cinema in Oslo.

It was revealed in a Norwegian magazine in October 2002 that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing treatment for it.

Lived with Norwegian novelist Anders Bye, who was born in Oslo in 1933.