Pia Degermark

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.

She suffered the symptoms of anorexia 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.

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.

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.