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Haddy Jallow (born 14 October 1985) is a Gambian-Swedish non-professional actress who on 23 January 2007 won Sweden’s top film award the Guldbagge Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as a teenage rape victim in Säg att du älskar mig (Say That You Love Me) released in Sweden on 25 August 2006.A native of the former British colony of Gambia the smallest country on the African continent Haddy Jallow grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby an area noted for its high concentration of African immigrants and subsequently moved with her family to Skogås a suburban municipality with a rural environment.At the age of 15 she was cast by director Daniel Fridell in a 2001 episode of the Swedish television series En klass för sig which portrayed high-school life.