Actress Agneta Eckemyr has died
Fashion designer and actor Agneta Eckemyr has died in Alzheimer's disease, confirms her ex Staffan Scheja to Aftonbladet.
Expressen
By Moa Lindstedt
December 29, 2018
The actor and fashion designer Agneta Eckemyr was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2012.
In the last few days she died from the disease at 68 years old, declares her former partner pianist Staffan Scheja.
- I regret that she had to go away in such a young age, it is very sobering. She was very ill the last year, says Staffan Scheja to Aftonbladet.
The couple got their son Daniel Scheja together.
Agneta Eckemyr was born in Karlsborg in 1950 and started her successful career as a model. After moving to the United States in the seventies she received roles in Walt Disney films.
Even at home, her acting career went well. Agneta Eckemyr played among others against Sven-Bertil Taube in "The Lion and the Maiden" from 1975.
In the eighties, Agneta Eckemyr ran a clothing store in New York and acted as a fashion photographer.
In 2014, the documentary "Penthouse North" was sent about Agneta Eckemyr's life in New York and her then difficult situation. She was threatened by eviction from her spatial floor overlooking Central Park and her finances were anything but good. She is forced, among other things, to go to the social assistance to get food coupons, something that was portrayed in the near and unmade documentary.
ECKEMYR, Agneta (Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr)
Born: 7/2/1950, Karlsborg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Died: 12/29/2018, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Agneta Eckemyr’s westerns – actress:
And for a Roof a Sky Full of Stars – 1968 (stagecoach passenger)
Blindman – 1971 (Pilar)