Pia degermark biography
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Pia degermark biography
Pia Degermark
Swedish actress
Pia Charlotte Degermark (born 24 August 1949) is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her role as Elvira Madigan in the 1967 drama film Elvira Madigan, for which she won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Career
Born Pia Charlotte Degermark, she came to international notice as the lead in Elvira Madigan (1967), directed by Bo Widerberg, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967.
She was spotted by Widerberg in a newspaper photograph dancing with the Swedish Crown Prince Carl Gustav.[1] Degermark acted in a few more films including The Looking Glass War (1970), an adaptation of John le Carré's novel of the same name, and The Vampire Happening (1971), a West German film produced by her husband.
Personal life
Degermark described her father as an alcoholic but her early life as sheltered though being brought up in an affluent rural family. She suffered the symptoms of ano