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A Swedish actress, born in Landskrona, Skane, Sweden, as Ewa Brigitta Aulin. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1969 for the film Candy 1968 and won the Taormina International Film Festival Award in 1972. Ewa married producer, director, and writer John W. Shadow (1968-1972) and had a child. After her divorce, she married Cesare Paladino in 1974. Her credits include Candy (1968), Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion (1970), The Double (1971), and Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973). Ewa Aulin appeared in several Italian films and some American films in the sixties and seventies. When Gunnar Fischer produced a short film in 1965 in Sweden, he needed a young girl, so he chose his neighbor, Ewa, who was 15. The following year, she won the Miss Teen competition, obtained a contract in Italian cinema, and made 3 films, the first of which was Don Juan in Sicily (1967). In 1968, she starred in the joint Italian-French-American film Candy (1968), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. While filming it in Mexico, she secretly married the British producer and director John W. Shadow when she was 18. The film did not succeed in America, but it succeeded in Europe. She was unable to secure a place among the Hollywood stars. She returned to Italy and made some drama and thriller films, then she separated from her husband in 1972. She was 23 years old when she discovered that cinema was not her passion, so she left it, married for the second time, joined the university to study teaching, and became a teacher.
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