Pia Charlotte Caminneci Degermark (born 24 August 1949, Bromma, Stockholm) is a Swedish former actress.

Life and career

Degermark came to international notice as the lead in Elvira Madigan

Elvira Madigan (film)

Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based on the tragedy of the Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen , working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather's travelling circus, who runs away with the deserter Swedish lieutenant Sixten Sparre .-Plot:Elvira...

(1967), directed by Bo Widerberg, for which she won the Best Actress Award

Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)

The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....

 at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

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 in 1967. She was spotted by Widerberg in a newspaper photograph dancing with the Swedish Crown Prince Carl Gustav

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

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. Degermark acted in a few more films, The Looking Glass War (1969), from the John le Carré

John le Carré

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 novel, and the West German Gebissen wird nur nachts (The Vampire Happening, 1971), produced by her husband, but her acting career ended as a result of personal problems.

She married Siemens heir and film producer Pier Caminneci in 1971, and had a son with him, but they divorced in 1973, and Degermark moved to the United States for a time. She returned to Sweden in 1979 suffering from anorexia

Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...

. Subsequently, she worked in women's voluntary groups with sufferers of the condition. In 1991, Degermark was sentenced to 14 months in prison for fraud and assault convictions.

Filmography

• Elvira Madigan
  Elvira Madigan (film)
  Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based on the tragedy of the Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen , working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather's travelling circus, who runs away with the deserter Swedish lieutenant Sixten Sparre .-Plot:Elvira...
  
  (1967) as Elvira Madigan
• The Looking Glass War (1969) as The Girl
• A Brief Season (Una breve stagione) (1969)
• The Vampire Happening
  The Vampire Happening
  The Vampire Happening is a 1971 West German film directed by Freddie Francis.- Plot :An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania...
  
  (Gebissen wird nur nachts) (1971) as Betty Williams/Clarimonde

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