RIP Maria Gustafsson

 

Swedish author, producer, film and TV actress Maria Gustafsson died in Stockholm, Sweden on March 23^rd, she was 78. Also known as Britt, her early career as a model and actress culminated with the popular Spanish quiz show, ‘Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez’. She had the female lead in the series ‘Vivir es lo que importa’, and appeared in roughly a dozen films. After studying TV Direction and Production at New York University she worked on the Spanish version of Sesame Street and was the International Coordinator of ‘3, 2, 1 Contact’, both coproduced with Children's Television Workshop. She was the creator and executive producer of ‘Dinamo’, a youth TV program showing pop/rock musicians doing extreme sports, broadcast by TVE. She 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. She had participated in an anthology, Liv och död i Stockholm, and co-authored a novel under a pseudonym. Maria was the ex-wife of actor Dan van Husen [1945-2020] and was married to married to director, writer Miguel Lluch (Miguel Lluch Suñé) [1922-2016] (1971-2016) and the mother of author Elin Lluch Barnes, and cinematographer Mischa Lluch. Maria appeared in one Spaghetti western as a saloon girl in 1968’s “Cemetery Without Crosses”.