Maria Gustafsson (1946 – 23 March 2025), also known as Britt, was a Swedish actress, television producer and author who worked in Spain from the 1960s to the 1990s.''''

Background

Gustafsson was born in Boden, Sweden in 1946. She was married to Spanish director

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, with whom she had two children. Gustafsson died in

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on 23 March 2025, at the age of 78.

Career

Gustafsson moved to Spain in the late 1960s to pursue an acting career. She returned to Sweden in the 1990s.''''

Acting

Gustafsson's early career as a model and actress culminated with the popular Spanish

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, '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' in 1972 and 1973. She also had minor roles in several films in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Television production

After studying TV Direction and Production at

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Gustafsson worked on ''

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'', the Spanish co-production of ''

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'', and was the International Coordinator of ''3, 2, 1 Contact'', both coproduced with

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. She was a screenwriter for ''Lápices de Colores'' (1986) and ''Dinamo'' (1986)'','' a youth TV program showing pop/rock musicians doing extreme sports, broadcast by TVE. Later, she became Program Director at Canal 10, the first private TV channel in Spain.'''' As Manager and Executive Producer at The Missing Piece, she produced the long-running series ''Apaños'' and ''Viejos oficios'' for the different autonomous TV channels in Spain and co-produced the youth series ''Torch'' with

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and Czechoslovak TV, and ''Griot'', a documentary series shot entirely in Senegal and the Ivory Coast.

Writing

Gustafsson published five books: the trilogy about Klara Andersson, a Swedish interpreter recruited by the Military Secret Service, ''Den vidunderliga utsikten'', ''Huset på Carrera 10'' and ''Absintängeln'' (2013). She participated in an anthology, ''Liv och död i Stockholm'', and co-authored a novel under a pseudonym.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gustafsson, Maria 1946 births 2025 deaths 20th-century Swedish actresses 20th-century Swedish screenwriters 20th-century Swedish women writers 21st-century Swedish women writers 21st-century Swedish writers People from Boden, Sweden Swedish film actresses Swedish television producers Swedish women television producers