Pia Charlotte Degermark (born 24 August 1949) is aSwedish actress. She is best known for her role asElvira Madigan in the 1967 drama filmElvira Madigan, for which she won aCannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Born Pia Charlotte Degermark, she came to international notice as the lead inElvira Madigan (1967), directed byBo Widerberg, for which she won theBest Actress Award at theCannes Film Festival in 1967. She was spotted by Widerberg in a newspaper photograph dancing with the Swedish Crown PrinceCarl Gustav.[1] Degermark acted in a few more films includingThe Looking Glass War (1970), an adaptation ofJohn le Carré's novelof the same name, andThe Vampire Happening (1971), a West German film produced by her husband.
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 ofanorexia for some years before she married Siemens heir and film producer Pier Andrea Caminneci (1941–2013) in 1971; the couple had a son, divorcing in 1973. Degermark moved to the United States for a time. After returning to Sweden in 1979, still with anorexia, Degermark became involved in a relationship with a man that led to her moving in the drug subculture, and eventually being befriended by a female career criminal. She worked in women's voluntary groups for other people with anorexia. While in her 50s, she was embroiled in a series of disputes over missing money with both charity regulators and her father's second wife. After complaints were made by her stepmother to the authorities, Degermark served a prison sentence and lost the last friends remaining from her high water mark of teenage film star many years before.[1]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1967 | Elvira Madigan | Elvira Madigan | |
| 1969 | A Brief Season (Una breve stagione) | Luisa | |
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | The Girl | |
| 1971 | The Vampire Happening (Gebissen wird nur nachts) | Betty Williams / Clarimonde | |
| Year | Festival/Awards | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 1967 | 20th Cannes Film Festival | Best Actress | Won | |
| 1968 | 26th Golden Globe Awards | Most Promising Newcomer – Female | Nominated | |
| 1969 | 22nd British Academy Film Awards | Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | Nominated |
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