Margit Eklund (born May 18, 1927 in Karlstad) is an Swedish Actress. She is the sister of the Swedish Showartist Alvar Anil, founder of the "Anils Revyer" (shows with dance and theater). At the age of fifteen she started with theater and dancing on the stage of Karlstads Theater. She has also worked with directing plays and movies.

Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand (born February 22, 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and model. She was a member of the Swedish pop group Play from the group's formation in 2001 when she was 12 until their breakup in 2005. Sundstrand was the youngest member of the group until Janet Leon joined in 2003. Anna was selected to be a part of Play by Laila Bagge, who owned a dance studio in Sweden called 'Sway' in which Anna was enrolled. She is a relative of the Swedish actress Greta Garbo. Since Play's disbanding, 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) Anna began a modeling career, signing with Model Management Group based in New York City (the same agency to which her bandmate Rosie Munter has signed) and posing for a 2006 calendar being marketed to the same audience that followed Play. Additionally, she has been exploring a solo singing career. She has performed several times with Chris Trousdale, a former member of boy band Dream Street. Her debut album was expected to be released in 2007, but now is expected to be released sometime in 2010. Sundstrand was most often heard singing the middle harmony/melody line of Play songs, but sometimes she also sang the higher harmonies. On various

Monica Ingeborg Elisabeth "Mona" Mårtenson (4 May 1902 – 8 July 1956) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1923 and 1949. She was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden.

Karen Victoria Silvstedt (born 19 September 1974) is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer, and television personality. Born in Skelleftehamn, Silvstedt was raised in a family of five in Bollnäs, having one older sister and one younger brother. She was keen on horseback riding and wanted to become a veterinarian. Silvstedt's father was the captain of a local ski team, and she started alpine skiing at the age of five. In 1989, Silvstedt placed fourth at a youth championship in the giant slalom won by Pernilla Wiberg. However, an accident in the middle of a skiing competition where she injured her shoulder ended Silvstedt's competitive skiing career at the age of 16. A few years later, Silvstedt was invited to participate in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant, after her mother and sister had sent some pictures of her to the pageant officials. Silvstedt participated in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant, and she was chosen to represent her country in the 1993 Miss World pageant in Sun City, South Africa, eventually making the Top 10. Silvstedt was signed up by a modeling agency in Paris, and she started working for various prestigious fashion houses, including Chanel, Christian Dior,

Marie Liljedahl (born 15 February 1950) is a Swedish actress who had a short-lived film career in the late-1960s and early-1970s, in the films of Joseph W. Sarno and Jesus Franco. Liljedahl was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was discovered dancing with a Stockholm ballet company by director Joseph W. Sarno. At 17 years old, she began her film career with the lead role in Sarno's Inga (1968), which transformed her into an international sex symbol. Her other film roles included Sybil Vane in Dorian Gray (1970) and Eugenie in Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion (1970). In 1971, she appeared in the sequel to Inga, The Seduction of Inga, her last major role. She grew weary of the film industry and retired from acting at the age of 21.

Ingrid Goude (born 1937) is a model from Sandviken, in Gästrikland, Sweden. She became an actress in B-movie and sci-fi motion pictures of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Goude. Her father was the manager of a steel plant in Sandviken. Her mother's name was Valdy. Goude won the 1956 Miss Sweden beauty pageant. As second runner-up in the 1956 Miss Universe, and 1st runner-up in Miss Europe contests, Goude signed a Universal Pictures film contract on July 25, 1956. The studio also offered contracts to the 1956 Miss Universe, Carol Morris, and Marina Orschel of Germany, the 1st runner-up. Universal picked up her option during Christmas 1956 and requested that she report back to the studio on January 8. Goude won the right to manage all of the earnings from her Universal contract in September 1957. The contract was paying $250 per week at the time. It called for her to invest 20% of her earnings in government bonds. A superior court judge in Los Angeles waived this proviso. He noted that Goude would turn twenty-one on May 26, 1958. Also, he noted, the contract was signed thirteen months earlier, and she had lived within her means since then.

Agneta Prytz (December 15, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was a Swedish movie and stage actress who appeared in thirty-six films over the course of her career. Prytz was the wife of Swedish director, Gösta Folke, who died in April 2008. Prytz was born Ingrid Agneta Prytz on December 15, 1916, in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. She worked in many roles at the Gothenburg City Theatre from 1942 until 1946. Her breakthrough film came in the Gösta Folke directed film, Neglected by His Wife, in 1947. Prytz and Folke were also married later in 1947. She continued to be cast in several of his films and TV movies during her career. Prytz appeared opposite fellow Swedish actors, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow, in a total of three films which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Jan Troell's The Emigrants in 1971; a sequel to The Emigrants, The New Land, which was also directed by Troell; and Sven Nykvist's The Ox in 1991. She also provided the voice of Gammel-Maja in the 1985 animated sequel, Peter-No-Tail in Americat (Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt). Her stage credits included Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her last on screen performance came in the dramatic short, Gone

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant. Before becoming a star in American films, she had already been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her first introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English remake of Intermezzo in 1939. In America, she brought to the screen a "Nordic freshness and vitality", along with exceptional beauty and intelligence, and according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, she quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and one of Hollywood's greatest leading actresses. After her excellent performance in Victor Fleming's remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, she was noticed by her future producer David O. Selznick,

Harriet Andersson (born 14 February 1932, Stockholm) is a Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality. She disdains the use of makeup. Andersson met Bergman at Malmö stadsteater in the early 1950s, when she was working as an elevator attendant. Bergman wrote the title role in Summer with Monika (1952), specifically for Andersson. The film featured Andersson in a nude scene, one of the first in postwar European cinema. It was inspired by Hedy Lamarr's once notorious skinny-dipping scene in Ecstasy, twenty years earlier. Filmed in Sweden, the motion picture features a musical score by Les Baxter. Although the romantic relationship with Bergman was brief, they continued to work together. Andersson appeared in several of his best known films, including Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Fanny and Alexander (1982). In Through A Glass Darkly, in which Andersson appeared with Max von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand, she

Natacha Peyre Requena (born 26 March 1985 in Ibiza, Spain) is a Swedish actress, singer, and former sex symbol and glamour model. Today she is one of Scandinavia's most successful glamour models. Born in Ibiza, Spain, she is half-Spanish on her mother's side and fluent in Spanish, Swedish, and English. Natacha knew early on what she wanted to do. At age 10 she had her first modeling job, a commercial for H Several other commercials followed. Although she got her first breast implants at 17, after insisting that her father permit it, she said in an interview that if she had a 17-year old daughter she would never allow her to get implants. She had craved implants to raise her self-esteem, as she had been so thin while "all her friends" had curves. She reports that her mother was not happy when she found out about her daughter's augmentation work. Natacha has appeared in magazines including Moore, Slitz, and Playboy; she has also appeared in several commercials. In 2005 she participated in the Swedish reality show Paradise Hotel on Swedish TV4. In 2006 one of her breast implants burst while having sex with her boyfriend. Later she mentioned the possibility of selling them on eBay,

Carolina Gynning Nilsson (born 6 October 1978 in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish model, actress and television presenter. Gynning became especially well-known to the public after winning Big Brother 2004, and has since become a television host for shows such as Dagens man, Idol 2007 and Förkväll. Gynning was born in Malmö but grew up Falsterbo. She attended Spyken School where she studied art and began modeling. Her love of art comes from her mother Agneta Gynning, who is a painter. Gynning began modeling at the age of 13. In later years she underwent breast augmentation which propelled her career into glamour modeling. Gynning was a Playmate for German Playboy, and has also appeared in the men's magazines Moore Magazine, Slitz, and Café. Gynning was a relatively unknown model until her appearance in the Swedish version of Big Brother in 2004. She had sex in front of live tv cameras during the show. She was also intensely fingered by Olivier de Paris live on the show. She became a household name in Sweden in 2004 when she won the television game show Big Brother. On 4 April it was revealed that Gynning along with Carina Berg would host the fourth season of Idol 2007 in Sweden.

Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967) is a Swedish-British television presenter in the UK, who became famous as a TV-am weather presenter and moved on to present Gladiators and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars. The granddaughter of Swedish opera singer Folke Jonsson, Jonsson was born in Sollentuna, Stockholm County. Her parents divorced amicably in 1975 when her mother left to be with her lover Michael Brodie in the Netherlands; Ulrika was eight years old. She lived with her father until the age of 12 when her mother suggested that at that age she needed a mother's guidance. Jonsson accepted and moved to Buckinghamshire, England in 1979 where she attended Farnham Common Middle School for a year above the normal age to prepare her for secondary school, then Burnham Grammar School, followed by St Aldate's Secretarial college in Oxford. Jonsson speaks fluent English, French, and German, as well as her native Swedish . After working as a secretary, Jonsson began her TV career on TV-am in 1989 where she worked as a weather presenter. From 12 September 1989, she was also the weather presenter for Swedish TV3, broadcasting from London. In 1991, she co-presented the

Inga Sofia Tidblad (May 29, 1901 – September 12, 1975) was a Swedish actress. She was one of the most praised actresses in Swedish theatre during her lifetime. Inga Tidblad grew up in Stockholm as daughter to engineer Otto Tidblad and the formerly Helga Krumlinde. She was a student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's famous acting school, Dramatens elevskola 1919–22, where she during her student years already was recognized as a rising star by audience and critics for her debut performance of Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest, where director Olof Molander had hand-picked her for the part, early recognizing her talent. After her graduation from drama school she worked at the Swedish Theatre, where she had her big star breakthrough in Sweden as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Schanke in the title role, in 1924. She remained in the theatre's ensemble until its tragic burn-down in 1925. Most notable for her many female leads in Shakespeare and Strindberg plays, star performances by Tidblad on stage include her Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Billie Moore in Broadway, the Angel in Cenodoxus, Aude in Graven under triumfbågen, Anna Boleyn in Henry VIII, Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,

Malin Susanna Margareta Birgerson (born 28 January 1968 in Täby, Stockholm County, Sweden) is a Swedish actress. Birgerson graduated 1992–95 at NAMA in Malmö. After that she was engaged in different Swedish theatres. 1997 she worked at Stockholm City Theatre. Birgerson became popular as the police Alice Levander in Season 2 of the Beck-films. Since February 2007 she works of the Swedish Theatre Federation. Birgerson is married to journalist Sven Irving from TV4.

Alexandra Pascalidou (born July 17, 1970 in Bucharest, Romania by Greek parents) is a Swedish journalist, television hostess and author. She is also a frequent lecturer, discussion leader and human rights activist. Pascalidou became known to the public in 1995 when she started hosting the multicultural TV-show Mosaik in SVT, one of Sweden’s Public Service-channels. Between 2000-2001 she hosted "Som sagt" in SVT, a Saturday night-program that had its focus on literature and language questions. At the same time, she was the producer and reporter for the TV-show "Striptease" that focused on investigative journalism. In 2004 Pascalidou hosted the Olympics in Athens for SVT and thereafter she lived in Greece for two years where she hosted various TV-shows. For example Friday night entertainment in ERT where she spent a whole day with Roberto Cavalli, Isabel Allende and Roger Moore among others. She was also hosting Greek morning television every day with three hours of live coverage each episode. She also was hostess for the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in 2005, and commentator in Kiev the year when Greece won the competition for the first time. In the same year Pascalidou hosted

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born 29 September 1931 in Malmö, Skåne) is a Swedish-American actress, model, and cult sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the 1960 Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita, which features the legendary scene of her cavorting in Trevi Fountain alongside Marcello Mastroianni. Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931, the eldest girl and the sixth of eight children. In her teens, she worked as a fashion model. In 1950, Ekberg entered the Miss Malmö competition at her mother's urging leading to the Miss Sweden contest which she won. She consequently went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe title despite not speaking English. Although she did not win Miss Universe, as one of six finalists she did earn a starlet's contract with Universal Studios, as was the rule at the time. In America, Ekberg met Howard Hughes, who at the time was producing films and wanted her to change her nose, teeth and name (Hughes said "Ekberg" was too difficult to pronounce). She refused to change her name, saying that if she became famous people would learn to pronounce it, and if she did not become famous it would not matter. As a starlet at

Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum (b. 5 September 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden, d. 12 February 2001, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony, Germany) was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer and photographer. She is most known for her roles playing pure Aryan women in Nazi-era propaganda films. Her father, Professor Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (1862–1933), was the permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. After both her parents had died shortly after each other, she moved to Berlin and enrolled in a theatre school. Beginning in 1935, Söderbaum starred in a number of films with her husband, director Veit Harlan, whom she married in 1939. Harlan and Söderbaum made ten films together under Joseph Goebbels. According to Antje Ascheid, Soderbaum is frequently identified as "most singularly representative of the Nazi ideal, as the quintessential Nazi star ." As a beautiful Swedish blonde, Söderbaum had the baby-doll looks that epitomized the model Aryan woman. In fact, she had already played the role of the innocent Aryan in a number of feature films and was well-known to German audiences. Her youth and beauty made her a symbol health and purity and thus an exemplary specimen of

Rosa Taikon (30 July 1926) is a Swedish Romani silversmith and actor from the Kalderash caste. She is the sister of Katarina Taikon. Her silver jewelry has been exhibited in many galleries and museums like the National Museum of Fine Arts and Röhsska Museum.

Siv Ericks (1 July 1918 – 3 July 2005), born in Oxelösund, Sörmland, was a Swedish actress who performed in 66 Swedish films over a 53-year career. She began her film career with a leading role in the 1939 film Rosor varje kväll. Her work for Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was slight; one uncredited role in A Lesson In Love (En Lektion i kärlek) (1954) and a role that ended up on the cutting room floor (Kvinnodröm, aka Dreams and Journey Into Autumn, 1955). In 1982, however, in one of her final roles, she played Alida in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. She also had supporting roles in Pippi Longstocking (1969) and Pippi Goes on Board (1973). Ericks died of natural causes in 2005.

Isa Quensel (21 September 1905 - 3 November 1981) was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano who appeared in over 50 films, plays, operas, TV and radio shows. In 1939 she created the title role in the world premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die Kathrin at the Royal Swedish Opera.

Maj-Britt Nilsson (11 December 1924 – 19 December 2006) was a Swedish movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Nilsson was born in Stockholm and trained at the drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theater there. She appeared in the following three Ingmar Bergman films: Till Glädje (To Joy, 1950), Sommarlek (Summer Interlude or Illicit Interlude 1951), and Kvinnors Väntan (Secrets of Women or Waiting Women, 1952). She also appeared in the English language film A Matter of Morals (1961), directed in Sweden by John Cromwell. Maj-Britt Nilsson died in Cannes, France, aged 82. Her death, which was not widely reported outside Sweden, was confirmed by Jon Asp, executive editor of the online publication Ingmar Bergman Face to Face. No cause was announced. In 1951 she married Per Gerhard, a theater director and son of Karl Gerhard, a prominent Swedish singer, who survives her.

Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (Swedish pronunciation: [mâjː sɛ̂tːəɭɪ̂ŋ]; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director. Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens. Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film Torment written by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's Frieda (1947) playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price. Some of her notable films as an actress include Quartet

Jenny Ulving, born September 26, 1979 in Östersund, is a Swedish film and television actress.

Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg (born 6 December 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish journalist known internationally for her work as an actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lindberg grew up in a working class home in Annedal, Gothenburg, together with her sister and three brothers. She studied Latin at school and planned to continue her studies in archeology. During her high school years (she was around 18 years old) she started posing nude for men's magazines, such as FIB aktuellt and Lektyr, after having garnered some attention posing in bathing suits for newspapers. She later appeared in men's magazines such as Penthouse (UK), Playboy (U.S.), Lui (France) and Mayfair (UK). She was a Penthouse Pet in the June 1970 issue of Penthouse. Lindberg has appeared or starred in 23 feature films, most of which are erotica, exploitation or softcore pictures. Her first movie was an American production (Maid in Sweden), filmed in Sweden with a Swedish cast. She got her second role in Jan Halldoff's comedy Rötmånad which was released in 1970. The film was seen by over 250,000 Swedes and went on to become a commercial success. Her third film, Exponerad, was

Stina Berg (21 October 1869 – 5 October 1930) was a Swedish silent film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1912 and 1931.

Eva Monica Zetterlund (born Nilsson 20 September 1937 in Hagfors, died 12 May 2005) was a Swedish singer and actress. Zetterlund was a singer particularly noted for her jazz work. She began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English. She went for the melody, rhythm and feeling. Hit songs include "Sakta vi gå genom stan" (Swedish cover of "Walking My Baby Back Home"; in Swedish a tribute to Stockholm town), "Visa från Utanmyra", "Sista jäntan", "Trubbel", "Gröna små äpplen" ("Little Green Apples"), "Monicas vals" ("Waltz for Debby"), "Stick iväg, Jack!" ("Hit the Road Jack"), "Att angöra en brygga", "Var blev ni av", "Måne över Stureplan" (cover on Sting's "Moon Over Bourbon Street") and "Under vinrankan!", among many, many others. She also interpreted the works of many Swedish national singer-songwriters such as Evert Taube, Olle Adolphson and Povel Ramel, and all through her life interpreted the works of international and American jazz musicians/song writers. She worked with some of the greatest international jazz names including Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn and Quincy

Izabella Scorupco (born Izabela Dorota Skorupko, June 4, 1970) is a Polish-Swedish actress and model, best known for her portrayal of Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. Scorupco was born to Lech and Magdalena Skorupko in Białystok, Poland, in 1970. When she was one year old, her parents separated, and she remained with her mother. In 1978, they moved to Bredäng in Stockholm, Sweden, where Scorupco learned to speak Swedish, English, French and Arabic. In the late 1980s, Scorupco travelled Europe working as a model, and appeared on the cover of Vogue. In 1987, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the film Ingen kan älska som vi ("Nobody can love like us"). In the early 1990s, she had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing the album IZA, which went gold in Sweden in 1991. In 1995, she played Natalya Simonova in the James Bond film GoldenEye, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan. On December 25, 1996, Scorupco married Polish ice hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski, then a player for the Edmonton Oilers. They separated in 1998, having had one daughter together, Julia (born September 15, 1997). On January 30, 2003,

Linnéa Paulina Hillberg, née Nilsson (October 26, 1892 – July 3, 1977) was a Swedish actress. Born in Uddevalla on the Swedish west coast, Linnéa Hillberg made her stage debut in 1913. Early on she acted (1914-18) with Karin Swanström Theatre Company and 1920-27 she was part of Ernst Eklund's Komediteatern (The Comedy Theatre). In between and during this time she appeared in a number of early Swedish silent films. She worked at Lorensbergsteatern in Gothenburg 1927-34 and at several private theatre's in Stockholm, including Vasateatern during Gösta Ekman's management. Also worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre for som years (1938-41) but later in the forties became part of the Norrköping-Linköping City Theatre, together with her husband. Made on stage critically acclaimed appearances in a number of classic parts; as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, as both Mrs. Alving and Regina in Ibsen's Ghosts (different stagings) and as Gina Ekdahl in The Wild Duck; as Laura in Strindberg's The Father and as Claire Zachanassian in Dürrenmatt's The Visit. She toured extentively with Riksteatern for years in the 1950s and was from 1960 part of the first ensemble

Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr (born 2 July 1950 in Karlsborg) is a Swedish actress and model turned clothing designer. Initially a model, her looks took her into film and television roles. She was photographed by Life Magazine appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Shortly after appearing in the 1974 Disney family film production The Island at the Top of the World, Eckemyr appeared on the front cover and within the October 1975 edition of Playboy magazine, as a Playboy Playmate. After retirement from being an actress, she turned her talents to clothing design. Her most recent designs are featured at Älskling (Swedish for Darling), on Columbus Avenue, New York City; a block from where she lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park.

Britt-Marie Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her high-profile social life. Ekland's father was a successful retailer in Stockholm, Sweden, her birthplace. The family name was Eklund. She has three younger brothers. Her mother died after a long battle with Alzheimers. She was the Bond girl in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. Other notable film appearances include The Night They Raided Minsky's, Baxter!, The Double Man, Get Carter (in the 1999 BBC television series I Love the '70s she hosted the 1971 episode in homage to her role as "Anna" in the film), and the 1973 cult film The Wicker Man (for which her voice was dubbed to disguise her Swedish-accented English). In 1975 she provided "whispers" in French on the end of then boyfriend Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright). Ekland also portrayed biographical characters, such as the one based on real-life actress Anny Ondra (boxer Max

Helen Lindroth, born December 3, 1874, died October 5, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Swedish-born American screen and stage actress. She acted on stage in New York before entering motion pictures with the Kalem Company and Famous Players. Lindroth performed in the film adaptation of The Swan (1925) and in The Song and Dance Man (1926), produced by George M. Cohan. Lindroth has ninety-six screen credits beginning with a role in the Battle of Pottsburg Bridge in 1912. Other films she appeared in include A Battle of Wits (1912), The Menace of Fate (1914), The Black Crook (1916), Shadows of Suspicion (1919), The Way of a Maid (1921), Unguarded Women (1924), and The Song and Dance Man (1926). Lindroth gave up acting around 1936 and became associated with the Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She retired from this philanthropic work in 1953.

Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy (1975). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU. Ann-Margret was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Anna (née Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. While young she moved with her parents to Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, which she later described as a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved there again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind. Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago in Wilmette, Illinois. She

Charlotta Larsson is an actor.

Gunnel Fred (born 29 August 1955) is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Årsta, Sweden.

Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress. Olin was born the youngest of three children, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg and the director Stig Olin. She studied acting at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art. She was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1975 in Helsinki, Finland in October 1974. Olin worked both as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse before becoming an actress. Olin performed for over a decade with Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble (1980–1994) in classic plays by Shakespeare and Strindberg, and appeared in smaller roles of several Swedish films directed by Bergman and in productions of Swedish Television's TV-Theatre Company. Ingmar Bergman cast Olin in Face to Face. Later she acted at the national stage in Stockholm in several productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman's production of King Lear (in which Olin played Cordelia) she toured the world — Paris, Berlin, New York, Copenhagen, Moscow and Oslo, among others. Critically acclaimed stage performances by Olin at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre included the leading part as The Daughter in A Dream Play by Strindberg, Margarita in the stage

MyAnna Buring (born 22 September 1984) is a Swedish actress best known for appearing in the 2005 horror film The Descent. Buring was born in Sweden but grew up in the Middle East. When she turned 16, she moved to England. She attended high school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker. Buring graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. She is also the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company. In 2006, Buring guest-starred in "The Impossible Planet", the first episode of a two-episode Doctor Who story. Her character, Scooti, perished in the vacuum of space; the scenes of her body floating towards a black hole were filmed in an underwater tank in Pinewood Studios, to create the effect of weightlessness. Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim, and appeared in a new play, Seduced by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre. In 2008, Buring starred as Alice in the independent film Credo, also known as The Devil's

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of her films were sensational hits, and all but three of her twenty-four Hollywood films were profitable. Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman. Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star. With her first

Pernilla Nina Elisabeth Wahlgren (born 24 December 1967 in Gustavsberg, Värmdö Municipality, Stockholm County) is a Swedish singer, actress and presenter. In 2004, she received the Ulla Billquist award. She is daughter to Christina Schollin and Hans Wahlgren, and sister to the artists/actors Niclas and Linus Wahlgren. A 3rd brother, Peter Wahlgren, works in a bank. She was married to Emilio Ingrosso 1993–96. They have 3 children together; Oliver Salvatore Gustavo (born 1989), Bianca Melina Elisabeth (born 1994) and Benjamin Daniele (born 1997). Both Benjamin and Bianca have already chosen to be involved in music at such a young age. Pernilla has also a son, Theodore (born 21 March 2007) Pernilla's first big break was at the age of four, when she acted alongside her mother in the TV-play Den längsta dagen (The Longest Day). She attended the famous Adolf Fredrik's music school and was also part of the Saltsjöbaden theatre. She also took dancing lessons with Lasse Kühler. In the face of stiff competition she got the title role in the musical Annie at Folkan in Stockholm. After a small role in Lilla prinsen (The Little Prince) at Saltsjöbaden's theatre and an equally small part in

Petra Nielsen (born Petra Magdalena Nielsen 1 February 1965 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer and actress. She has starred on Broadway during her career. Her mother is Swedish actress Monica Nielsen and her father Adam Inczédy-Gombos. She is best known for her appearances at the Chinatheater in Stockholm in the 1990s, in musicals including Grease and Fame. She participated in Melodifestivalen in 2004, finishing fourth with "Tango! Tango!".

Friedel Pia Lindström (born 20 September 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden) is the first child of actress Ingrid Bergman and Dr. Petter Aron Lindström, a Swedish American Neurosurgeon. Pia was greatly affected by the scandal between her mother and the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Her mother's out-of-wedlock pregnancy caused Pia to be without her mother until 1957 as Ingrid fled to Italy. Pia's father sued for desertion and waged a custody battle for Pia Lindström. Her half brother Roberto Ingmar Rossellini was born on 7 February 1950, and her mother married Roberto Rossellini on 24 May 1950. On 18 June 1952 Pia's twin half-sisters Isabella Rossellini and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini were born. Pia Lindström began her broadcasting career as a reporter at KGO-TV in San Francisco in 1966 , , and in 1971 went to WCBS-TV in New York City. From 1973 to 1997, she was a news anchorwoman and also a Theater & Arts critic for WNBC-TV Channel 4 News (in NYC), and has also made TV appearances and done some acting (in mostly Italian films). She has received two Emmy Awards for news coverage and on-screen performance. She has also received the Associated Press Broadcaster's Award. She has two sons

Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin (born 20 August 1957) is a Swedish actress, model, and a former Miss World. She was born in Örebro, Sweden. She returned to judge the Miss World contest in 1980 and 2010. and hosted it in 1986. Amongst her most prominent acting roles are bit parts in two James Bond films. In Octopussy she plays an Octopussy girl and in A View to a Kill she plays agent Kimberley Jones. In addition to acting, Stävin released the exercise album Shape Up and Dance with George Best. She had a minor role as the character Tanya in the 1986 horror movie House which starred William Katt. Stävin plays the Icelandic businesswoman, "Heba", in "Twin Peaks" (Season 1, Ep. 6). She also appeared in two music videos for Adam Ant. These were Ant Rap (1981) and Strip (1983). Stävin resides in Beverly Hills, California with husband, Nicholas Wilcockson, a British businessman. She has a daughter Liliana and eight nieces and nephews: Nathalie, Dominic, Emily, Alexander, Benjamin, George, Misha, and Luka.

Agneta Sjödin (born 20 July 1967 in Norrbo, Hudiksvall, Gävleborg County) is a Swedish presenter and TV-personality on the Swedish television channel TV4. She hosted the first two seasons of the popular show Let's Dance on TV4, along with David Hellenius. Sjödin started her career as a light technician and got a job fixing lights on TV4 for different TV shows. At the same time Adam Alsing, a presenter for TV4, started a new show called Tur i kärlek and was looking for a female co-host. After auditioning several hopefuls, he asked Sjödin if she would like to audition. She turned out to be a natural, and Alsing asked her to co-host the show with him. The show started airing in 1992 and became a huge success and it was the first game show on the relatively new channel. Agneta continued on TV by doing the travel/game show Jakten på den försvunna diamanten with Bengt Magnusson on TV4, which didn't receive good reviews and was cancelled soon thereafter. Agneta went on to get the job as host for the show Fångarna på fortet which she and sport star Gunde Svan hosted together. The show was recorded on Fort Bayard in France, and it was Swedish celebrities who did different tasks in the

Julia Dufvenius is an actor.

Alexandra Rapaport (born 26 December 1971) is a Swedish film and stage actress born in Bromma. She has studied at Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from where she graduated in 1997. Her parents are from Poland.

Julia Winter (born 17 March 1993) is a Swedish-born English actress. Winter was born in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in London, England. She is fluent in both Swedish and English. She attends SSHL, a school in Sigtuna, Sweden, and is an ex-pupil of the prestigious St Paul's Girls' School in London, United Kingdom. She is good friends with AnnaSophia Robb, the young actress that played Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Winter appeared in the role of the spoiled rotten Veruca Salt in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. On 21 January 2006 she was a celebrity guest on the CBBC children's television series Dick and Dom in da Bungalow.

May Britt (born 22 March 1933) is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the 1950s in Italy and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960. Maybritt Wilkens, as she was known originally, was discovered by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was an assistant to a Stockholm photographer. The two Italians were in Sweden to cast a young blonde woman for the title role in Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair. They came to the studio where she worked to view photographs of models. After meeting her, they offered her the part. May Britt, as she was renamed professionally, immediately moved to Rome. As expected, she made her movie debut as the leading actress in Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1952). In the following years she worked in some ten Cinecittà productions. She also featured in the epic War and Peace film of 1956. In the late 1950s, Britt relocated to Hollywood after signing with 20th Century Fox. She starred in a few movies, including The Young Lions with Marlon Brando and Murder, Inc. with Peter Falk, as well as a much-criticized remake of The Blue Angel in the legendary

Mimi Anden, born as Susanna Andén on June 7, 1978 in Stockholm. She began modeling at the age of ten and joined the Elite Model Management at the age of fifteen. She has been on the cover of many fashion magazines and has been in fashion campaigns. She was a judge in the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 2001. She was the host of the Swedish section of Scandinavia's Next Top Model which premiered February 16, 2005. Anden is a Swedish model, actress, occasional host, and producer.

Märta Torén (21 May 1925 – 19 February 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Torén began her career on the stage and from 1947 she appeared in films. She appeared on the cover of the June 13 issue of Life Magazine in 1949. One of her most important roles was opposite Humphrey Bogart in Sirocco (1951). Torén died at the age of 31 from a brain hemorrhage.

Susan Taslimi (also spelt Soosan Taslimi, Persian: سوسن تسلیمی , born 7 February 1950) is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1989, now living and working in Sweden. She graduated in theatre and acting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. She started film acting with Bahram Bayzai's Ballad of Tara in 1979.

Frida Sophia Hallgren (born December 16, 1974 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress, internationally known from As It Is in Heaven. After finishing her degree, Frida attended the theater university in Malmö. This training was connected to a practical course at the city theater of Gothenburg. Thereafter Frida received several theater roles in Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Uppsala. She attained international fame with the leading role of Lena in Kay Pollak's Oscar nominated film As It Is in Heaven. In 2007 she was at the side of Walter Sittler and Inger Nilsson (Pippi Longstocking) in the Second German Television miniseries Der Kommissar und das Meer

Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman (born 9 November 1971) is a Swedish actress. Kinnaman was born in Stockholm, Sweden to American parents Dee and Steve Kinnaman. Her half-brother, Joel Kinnaman, is also an international actor. By age 13 she made her acting debut, portraying the tomboy Saga in the acclaimed 1985 movie My Life as a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallström. She was later educated at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm from 1991 to 1994. Since then, she has been part of the ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and made major parts in many classics, such as Iphigenia in Iphigenia at Aulis (1995), Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1997), Anja in The Cherry Orchard (1997), Estelle in Sartre's No Exit (2000), Marie in Woyzeck (2003), Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (2004) and Martirio in The House of Bernarda Alba (2008). 2011 she played the violinist in Duet for One. She has also developed acrobatics skills and worked with theatre interwoven with contemporary circus from the start at the Royal Dramatic Theatre 1994 with Robert Lepage's magical production of August Strindberg's A Dream Play and advanced even more in the lead of a brave staging of

Sanna Bråding (born March 5, 1980, in Saltsjö-Boo, Nacka, Stockholm County) is a Swedish actress. Her first appearance was in the soap opera Tre Kronor during the 1990s. In 2004, she starred in the film A Hole in My Heart. In 2006, she became a presenter for Idol 2006, the Swedish version of Pop Idol. On June 27, 2008, Bråding was sentenced to three months in jail with parole supervision following the jail sentence. She was found guilty on three drug charges by Södertörn District Court. Three other people were also sentenced, among them, her boyfriend who received one year and eight months in jail. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to one month.

Tilde Maria Henny Märta Fröling (born 15 May 1980) is the daughter of the Swedish actors Ewa Fröling and Örjan Ramberg, and a Swedish actress, TV presenter and model. She was the winning participant in the 2005 TV3 celebrity version of Expedition Robinson. Currently Froling can be seen on Swedish television channels TV6 and TV3, on the TV shows Rocky & Drago with Peter Siepen, and Lustgården respectively. She has figured in television advertisement with Pontus Gårdinger for the Swedish lager Norrlands Guld, manufactured by Spendrups. Fröling was a contestant on the television show Let's Dance 2008, but has since been voted off the show.

Birgitta Pettersson (born 7 January 1939) is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Uppsala, Sweden.

Ewa Fröling, Eva Marie Fröling , (born August 9, 1952) is a Swedish actress. She was born in Stockholm. Fröling has appeared on-screen in various roles throughout her career. Most notable are her leading parts in Gunnel Lindblom's Sally och friheten (as Sally) and Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (as Emelie). She studied at Sweden's Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan) in Malmö and from 1977-88 was an actress at Sweden's national stage Dramaten where Fröling appeared in plays such as Stiftelsen directed by Alf Sjöberg, as Johanna in Bertolt Brecht's Heliga Johanna från slakthusen (Saint Joan of the Stockyards) and in Ingmar Bergman's classic 1984 staging of Shakespeare's King Lear (as Regan). In the 1990s she worked mainly at Stockholms stadsteater (Stockholm City Theatre). Ewa Fröling was back on stage at Dramaten; in the title role as Vera in the success play by popular Swedish playwright Kristina Lugn, 2005. Fröling has been married to actor Örjan Ramberg with whom she has daughter Tilde.

Ewa Strömberg is a Swedish actress. She appeared in a number of Swedish films before her international career. Nowadays, she is best known for her appearance in a number of films by Spanish director Jesús "Jess" Franco, most notably Vampyros Lesbos (1971). She retired from the film industry shortly afterwards.

Gunnel Lindblom (born Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom, 18 December 1931 Gothenburg, Sweden), is a Swedish film actress and director. As an actor she has been particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim. Married to senior lecturer Sture Helander (who was Ingmar Bergman's personal physician), she was sometimes credited as Gunnel Lindblom Helander, or Gunnel Helander. She appeared on stage as Tintomara's mother in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's play Drottningens juvelsmycke (English: The Queen's Tiara), staged at Dramaten for the theatre's 100 years Jubilee in 2008. Currently (2009) directing the Jon Fosse play Flicka i gul regnjacka (Girl in Yellow Raincoat) at Dramaten, starring Stina Ekblad and Irene Lindh, which premiered on October 9.

Inday Ba (10 August 1972 – 20 April 2005), also known as N'Deaye Ba, was a Swedish-British film, stage, and television actress born in Gothenburg, Sweden. One of her most notable Swedish on-screen roles was as Hillevi in the romantic comedy Klassfesten (2002) opposite Björn Kjellman. She appeared in Trial & Retribution as "DC Lisa West" from 2002 until 2003. She died from complications of lupus at age 32, shortly after filming her last role in the ITV drama serial Jericho. Ba, along with her mother, filmed the progression of the disease in the documentary The Wolf Inside".

Pernilla August (born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a Swedish actress, director and script-writer. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a long time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions. Her international career includes the role of Shmi Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. August started acting during her childhood in theater and at school. Her professional acting career started in 1975 when acclaimed director Roy Andersson cast her in a minor role in the film Giliap the same year, followed from 1979 by films by other internationally renowned directors, Vilgot Sjöman (among them, the film about Alfred Nobel, 1983) and Lasse Hallström. She studied acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm 1979-82. Before finishing her studies, she even attracted the attention of Ingmar Bergman who cast her in his film Fanny and Alexander (1982), playing the nanny in the director's romanticised portrait of his childhood. That marked the beginning of two decades of collaboration, collecting several international awards, including TV

Britt-Marie Elisabeth Göranzon Malmsjö (born 27 October 1942) is a Swedish actress. Marie Göranzon is since 1967 part of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble. She trained at Dramatens elevskola 1964-67. Married to actor Jan Malmsjö, with whom she has son, Jonas Malmsjö (also an actor of Dramaten). She was previously married to actor and director Lars Amble.

Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 – 2 January 1953) was a Swedish stage and film actress. Born in Stockholm, Borgström is considered one of Sweden's most legendary silent film actresses. She made her film debut in 1912. Starred in leading parts in Victor Sjöström's classic silent films Ingeborg Holm (aka Margaret Day) (1913) and Körkarlen (aka The Phantom Carriage/The Stroke of Midnight/Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness) in 1921. Borgström started out to be a dancer and trained at the old Royal Theatre's ballet school in Stockholm 1880-87. After that she decided to turn to the theatre instead and studied drama to become an actress. The professional debut on stage came in 1890 at one of Albert Ranft's theatres. She was an actress of Sweden's national stage, the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten), between 1900–1912 and 1920-1938. Here, alongside becoming a star on film, she made a number of remarkable and critically acclaimed performances. She retired officially from stage in 1938 (due to having developed a case of severe stage fright) and turn back to the film instead. She appeared in several notable supporting parts in Swedish films in the 1930s-50s, for example in Ingmar Bergman's

Jenny Wilson is a Swedish singer-songwriter, born on October 20, 1975 in Blekinge, Sweden. She founded the band First Floor Power in 1997 and released two albums, There Is Hope and Nerves, before leaving the band to go solo around 2004. She studied graphic design at Konstfack for one year. Her music has a distinct style influenced by electro. Jenny Wilson was signed to The Knife's Rabid Records, and was a guest vocalist on The Knife's album Deep Cuts. Her solo album Love and Youth was released in 2005 in Sweden. In August 2006, Love and Youth was released in Australia on Hussle Recordings' album imprint (later to launch independently as etcetc). The first single from the album, "Summertime – The Roughest Time", received extensive airplay on Triple J. In November 2006, Wilson appeared on Robyn's promotional The Rakamonie EP, featuring in a live recording of the song "List of Demands". On February 25, 2009, Wilson self-released her second solo album Hardships! on CD and vinyl. In January 2010 Jenny Wilson won an European Border Breakers Award for her international success In 2010 she wins an European Border Breakers Award for her international success. The song "You Take My Breath

Maud Solveig Christina Wikström (born 12 February 1945), known professionally as Maud Adams, is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girls: in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), and as the title character in Octopussy (1983). Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller. She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages. She was discovered in 1963 in a shop by a photographer who asked to take her picture, a picture he submitted to the Miss Sweden contest arranged by the magazine Allers. Adams won this contest and from there her modelling career took off. Adams moved to Paris and later to New York City to work for Eileen Ford. At this time she was one of the highest paid and most exposed models in the world. Her acting career started when she was asked to appear in the 1970 movie The Boys In The Band, in which she played a photo-shoot model in the opening credits. In the 1970s, she guest-starred in such American TV series as Hawaii Five-O and Kojak. Adams was catapulted to international fame as the doomed mistress of the

Hillevi Schine, (née Rombin) (September 14, 1933 – June 19, 1996), crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955. She was the first deceased Miss Universe title holder since the pageant's inception. She grew up in Uppsala, Uppland and was the Swedish national decathlon champion before she competed in the pageant. A remarkable athlete, Rombin excelled in gymnastics, track & field, and downhill snow skiing. After winning the pageant, she left Sweden for Hollywood to fulfill her acting contract with Universal Pictures, part of the prize package as Miss Universe. She studied acting along with John Gavin, Clint Eastwood, and Barbara Eden, among the other contract actors. Universal put her in a couple films, with just one or two lines, to give her some exposure and experience. She was credited for small speaking roles in two films. In The Benny Goodman Story (1955) she asks for an autograph and in Istanbul (1957) she appears as a flight attendant near the film's end. During her year reign as Miss Universe, while traveling around the U.S., she met her future husband G. David Schine, whose family was in the hotel business and would later himself be in the film

Ulla Agneta Jones née Andersson, known professionally as Ulla Andersson and as Ulla Jones (born June 18, 1946 in Sweden) is a former high fashion model, actress, singer and songwriter who appeared on numerous magazine covers during the 1960s, before she retired from the Ford Modelling Agency, and has been married to Quincy Jones. She also calls herself Ulla Andesong (Swedish for spirit song). Andersson was discovered in Stockholm by Eileen Ford when she was 15 years old. She was immediately signed to the Ford Modelling Agency and sent to Paris where she learned the business. Before long before she was travelling the world and working in Europe, the United States and Russia. She was photographed by renowned fashion photographers of the day including Hiro and her image appeared on such fashion publications as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. In January 1976, Ulla Jones was cast as "Betty Sue" in Lars Jacob's first Stockholm production of Wild Side Story and was singled out for good notice in major press. The run was cut short when one of the leads dropped out and thus was her performance in it. Fellow cast members were Christer Lindarw and Roger Jönsson, subsequently known in After

Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund-Sällström (born Berglund 30 December 1974 in Stockholm - died 13 February 2007 in Malmö) was a Swedish actress. She worked as actress for more than 15 years before her suicide. Sällström made her first stage appearance in Hudiksvall at the age of 15 in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She became famous in Sweden in the 1990s after portraying the teenage girl Victoria Bärnsten in the soap opera Tre kronor. Thereafter she appeared in numerous productions, and received a Guldbagge Award for best female actress in 1998. Later that same year, unable to cope with her new-found celebrity, she took a break from filming and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where she worked in a café. In 2000 she returned to Sweden to continue her acting career. If she had wanted to disappear and be forgotten about, she had very much achieved that. She did not enjoy the success of previous years until she won the role of police agent Linda Wallander in the Swedish TV series Wallander, which brought her career and financial success again. She became internationally known for her role in the series, based on Henning Mankell's books about Kurt Wallander, the first two seasons airing in

Rebecca Ferguson (19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress and model of British descent. She is a blood relative Sarah, Duchess of York. She is best known for playing the lead role in the soap opera Nya tider. She played Chrissy in the short-lived American soap opera Ocean Ave. and had a role in the Swedish horror film Strandvaskaren.

Amelia A Curtis (born 28 August 1972) is a British actress born in Stockholm, Sweden. She is notable for having played the role of Viki Lovejoy in the final series of Lovejoy, a role that she took over from Amelia Shankley. She married Vincent Regan in 2001 and they have one daughter Levi Rose Regan.

Annalisa Ericson (14 September 1913 – 21 April 2011) was a Swedish actress best known for her roles in 58 Swedish movies between 1930 and 1991. The core of her acting work though took place on various theatres in Stockholm. Starting with ballet in 1919, she made her first work on the stage at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. After quitting the ballet in 1930, she became an acting student and made her first appearances in various plays and revues. Her first break in the movies was Värmlänningarna in 1932. Mixing revues with light comedy films, she slowly gained herself a name. In the 1940s she appeared in a number of musicals with actor Nils Poppe where the couple became known for their acrobatic dancing. In the 1950s she mainly appeared in musicals and revues. As far as her movie career is concerned, she took part in a string of crime thrillers directed by Arne Mattsson. Her last film role was in 2004's Annalisa och Sven. Ericson died on 21 April 2011, aged 97.

Emma Wiklund (née Sjöberg, born 13 September 1968, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish fashion model and actress. Emma was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She is 175.5 cm tall blue-eyed blonde who has walked the runway for Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix and Lanvin. She was signed to Elite Model Management and can be seen in George Michael's music video for "Too Funky" alongside other models such as Linda Evangelista. She began her acting career in 1995, and with the four Taxi movies (1998–2007), she became a popular actress in France. In her native Sweden, she is known as a TV programme hostess and a regular in the fashion world. On 12 February 2003 she married Hans Wiklund and they have two children, daughter Tyra and son Elis. She sat on the board for Swedish fashion retailer Lindex in 2007. She also appears in their advertisements.

Gunilla Andersson (born 26 April 1975 in Skutskär, Sweden) is an ice hockey player from Sweden. Andersson play Defenceman position for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Also she play with the Segeltorps IF in the Riksserien (Sweden league elite).

Zinat Pirzadeh, born 22 February 1967, is an Iranian Swedish female comedian. She has been called the "funniest female immigrant in Sweden.

Agnetha Åse Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈneː.ˈta ˈfɛlt.ˈskuːɡ]) (born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish recording artist. She achieved success in Sweden after the release of her début album Agnetha Fältskog in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which has sold over 375 million records worldwide, making it the fourth best–selling music artist in history and the second best–selling band in history. Agnetha (known as Anna in some countries) Fältskog was born on 5 April 1950 in Jönköping, Småland, Sweden. She was the first of two daughters of department store manager Knut Ingvar Fältskog (1922—1995) and his wife Birgit Margareta Johansson (1923—1994). Ingvar Fältskog showed much interest in music and showbusiness, whereas Birgit Fältskog was a very calm and careful woman who devoted herself to her children and household. Fältskog cites Connie Francis, Marianne Faithfull, Aretha Franklin and Lesley Gore as her strongest musical influences. Fältskog wrote her first song at the age of six, entitled "Två små troll" ("Two Little Trolls"). In 1958, she began taking piano lessons, and also sang in a local church choir. In early 1960, Fältskog formed a

Janet Ågren Maietto (born 6 April 1949) is a Swedish former actress of mostly Italian exploitation films. Ågren was born in Landskrona, Sweden. Her modeling career brought her to Italy where she started to appear in films. She made her debut in Giuseppe Orlandini's I due crociati (1968). She appeared in a total of 57 films, among the most famous are: Lucio Fulci's Paura nella città dei morti viventi (1980), Umberto Lenzi's Mangiati Vivi (1980), Carlo Vanzina's Dagger Eyes (1983), and Richard Fleischer's Red Sonja (1985). Janet also appeared in 1972 Jack Lemmon comedy Avanti! as a nurse. She quit acting in the early 1990s and moved to the US where she currently resides.

Lena Söderblom (born 24 October 1935) is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in 24 films since 1955.

Signe Hasso (15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish-born American actress, writer and composer. Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm, Sweden in 1915. Signe Hasso debuted at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in the year 1927 at the age of 12. In 1933, she made her first film, Tystnadens hus, with German film director/cameraman Harry Hasso whom she subsequently married. In 1940, she moved to the United States, where she was signed to a contract by RKO Studios, who promoted her as "the next Garbo". She and Hasso divorced in 1941. Her first role of note was as "Mademoiselle" in Heaven Can Wait (1943). Her other roles during the 1940s included The Seventh Cross (1944), Johnny Angel (1945), The House on 92nd Street (1945), A Scandal in Paris (1946) and A Double Life (1947). By the 1950s, her Hollywood career had stalled. In 1957, her son (and only child) was killed in a car accident. From then on, she divided her time between making films in Sweden and acting on stage in New York until she returned to Hollywood in the mid 1960s. In her later years, Hasso won acclaim for her work as a songwriter and writer, and for her work translating

Caroline Maria Winberg (born March 27, 1985) is a Swedish model. Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna, Sweden. Winberg, a tomboy and aspiring professional football player in her youth for AIK from Solna a suburb north Stockholm, was en route to football training when scout Cesar Wintland spotted the 15-year-old and suggested that she consider a career in modeling. Winberg began her modeling career at age sixteen, and a year later was booking local gigs and appearing in promotional spots for regional companies. She soon caught the eye of several well-known agencies – including Women Model Management, Why Not Milan and Dominique Brussels – and found herself in campaigns for designers such as Valentino, Versace, Oscar de la Renta, Escada, and Armani. She has also been in campaigns for D, Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas by Stella McCartney, Rolex, Chloé, Armani, Ralph Lauren and Neiman Marcus, and has graced the covers of several international editions of Vogue. She has appeared in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show each year since 2005. She also appeared in Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for The White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti in 2010. She made

Pia Ann-Kristin Johansson, born 16 November 1960 in Umeå, is a Swedish actor, lecturer and examinator. Johansson studied at the Skara scene school, which was followed by a degree from Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1989. After studying she was employed at Stockholm City Theatre's permanent ensemble. She has been a guest on a number of productions, such as På minuten, Så ska det låta´ and the radio show Sommar. She has also taken part in the TV program Parlamentet.

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (29 December 1920 – 25 October 1995), better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress. Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the daughter of Karin Emilia Therese (née Dymling) and Axel Torsten Lindfors. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros. and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than one hundred films including Night Unto Night, No Sad Songs for Me, Dark City, King of Kings, Creepshow, and Stargate. She appeared with actors such as Ronald Reagan, Jeffrey Hunter, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott and Errol Flynn. She also appeared on television, including the 1959 episode "The Temple of the Swinging Doll" of the NBC espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison. Later, she had a recurring role on the ABC series Life Goes On, for which she won an Emmy Award. Lindfors appeared with Joseph Cotten and Ward Bond in the 1957 film The Halliday Brand. One of her last performances was in the original Stargate film in which she played

Emilie Sophie Högquist (29 April 1812 – 18 December 1846) was a Swedish actress and the mistress of Oscar I of Sweden. She was a star of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the most celebrated dramatic Swedish primadonna of her time, called the Swedish Aspasia, and also famous for her love affairs. She has been called the first female celebrity within Swedish drama. She was the daughter of Anders Högquist and Anna Beata Hedvall. Her brother Jean also became a famous Swedish actor. As her father was the butler of count Carl De Geer, Emilie was soon exposed to men from the upper classes. Her mother was the hostess for the ill-reputed "Balls" held to introduce female students from Dramatens elevskola to rich men. Emilie, like her elder sister Hanna, was placed in Dramatens elevskola by her mother in 1821, and acted as a child actor in the child theatre of Anders Selinder, the Selinderska Barntheatern. At the age of fourteen, she was "introduced" to a rich old man by her mother. In 1826-1828 she was a part of a travelling theatre company touring the country, and when she returned, she was accepted as a student at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm, making her debut in the play "Qväkaren" in 1828.

Gio Petré (born 1 November 1937) is a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1955 and 1974.

Mona Seilitz (January 16, 1943 Malmö, Sweden - April 2, 2008 Malmö) was a Swedish film and television actress and entertainer. She was considered to be a veteran of both Swedish dramatic and comedic television. Seilitz also did vocal work for a number of Swedish language cartoons. She was cast as a lead actress in three Happy Life Animation family oriented animated films - Pettson och Findus - katten och gubbens år in 1999, Pettson och Findus - Kattonauten in 2000 and Pettson och Findus 3: Tomtemaskinen in 2005. Mona Seilitz was born in Malmo, Sweden, on January 16, 1943. She died of cancer in Malmo on April 2, 2008, at the age of 65.

Stina Ekblad (born 26 February 1954 in Solf, Ostrobothnia, Finland)) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget (The Serpent's Way) and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar. Ekblad was born in the Ostrobothnian village of Solf in 1954. The village is nowadays part of the municipality of Korsholm.

Ulla Jacobsson (23 May 1929, Mölndal – 20 August 1982, Vienna, buried at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof) was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing one of the very few female roles in the film Zulu. Jacobsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Originally a stage actress, she started appearing in English language films in the early 1960s and tended to play serious and anxious looking characters. She first become known internationally for nude scenes in One Summer of Happiness. Other notable roles include Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, The Heroes of Telemark and la Servante. A role in the American film Love Is a Ball was an attempt to make her a sex symbol. She won the German Film Award for Supporting Actress in Alle Jahre wieder (1967). She was married to Austrian ethnologist Hans Winfried Rohsmann (1918–2002). Jacobsson's film career tailed off in the 1970s, and she died in Vienna, Austria from bone cancer at age 53.

Anika Knudsen is a model active in the United States. Knudsen moved to the United States when she was 6 years old. At age 14, she decided that she wanted to go into modeling, so she signed on through modeling agencies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Milan. Knudsen graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Knudsen was a guest-star on television shows such as E! television's Girl Next Door, Casting Ripe Live, and Fear Factor. She was Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Week for the week of April 15, 2002

Katie Rolfsen (10 November 1902 – 22 September 1966) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1925 and 1965. She was born in Oslo, Norway and died in Rådmansö, Sweden.

Birgitta Valberg (born 16 December 1916; Stockholm) is a Swedish actress who attended the Dramatens elevskola.

Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist (14 February 1871 – 23 October 1959) was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt". Lundequist was considered one of Scandinavia's leading tragediennes and dramatic stage actresses, and she originated many leading female parts in plays by Ibsen and Strindberg. She had a 60 year long career as a professional actress (with debut 1889) before she made her last performance in 1949, as Julia Hylténius in the successful staging of the comedy The Barons Will by Hjalmar Bergman. She studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1886-1889 and in 1891 appeared as Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, a performance that established Lundequist at the top. In 1890, she originated the role of Anne-Marie in Ibsen's A Doll's House and in 1897 the role of Ella Rentheim in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. Notable performances by Lundequist include the title role in Schiller's Maria Stuart (1910), Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear (1908), Béline in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid (1897), the title role in Maeterlinck's Monna Vanna (at the Swedish Theatre 1912), the title role

Rosanna "Rosie" Bella Victoria Eriksdotter-Munter, Born 26 September 1987 in Stockholm, is a Swedish recording artist and singer-songwriter. She says that the genre in which she operates is best described as “big emotional, chaotic, beautiful pop”. Rosanna's first experience of pop-stardom was as an original member of the pop girl group Play. Tommy Mottola signed Rosanna to Columbia Records when she was thirteen years old. As a member of Play she toured with Destiny’s Child and lived in the United States of America for four years. Play sold over a million records. After Play disbanded a 17-year-old Rosanna moved back to Sweden. Music college followed. She played in bands, toured Swedish festivals, did the whole growing up thing. “I knew then that the stage was the only place I wanted to be,” she remembers, “but next time with my own music.” Rosanna has appeared on two of David Åström's (aka Kocky) albums: Kingdome Came (Released 2007) and Stadium Status (2008). The songs she is featured in are Tricks (which she co-wrote with Kocky), My Grandma and Be Part of It All in Kingdom Came. From Stadium Status she sung in and Oh!, Fast Car, We're Back and has a minor appearance in Promise 2

Amanda Ooms (born 5 September 1964) is a Swedish actress and writer. She has acted in both film and TV in Sweden and internationally. She was born in Kalmar, Sweden.

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (born 28 August 1921) is a Swedish actress. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Along with Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, and Ingrid Thulin, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for the film Brink of Life.

Marie Richardson (born June 6, 1959 in Ljusdal, Sweden) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from 1982 to 1985. She has three children with Jakob Eklund, also an actor. Most recently, she played the psychologically tormented wife of an obsessive violent politician (played by Reine Brynolfsson) in the Swedish mini series The Regicide, based on a novel written by Danish author Hanne Vibeke Holst.

Noomi Rapace ( /ˈnoʊmi rəˈpɑːs/ NOH-mee rə-PAHSS), née Norén (born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress. She is known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. She is also known for playing Madame Simza Heron in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and the lead role of Elizabeth Shaw in the Ridley Scott science fiction film Prometheus. As of March, 2012, she is shooting Brian De Palma's thriller Passion in Berlin. Rapace was born in Hudiksvall. Her mother, Nina Norén (b. 1954), is a Swedish actress, and her father, Rogelio Durán (1953–2006), was a Spanish cantaor (Flamenco singer) from Badajoz. She has said that her father may have been of part Roma descent, and though she is "not sure if it is true," she has "always been interested in the culture." Rapace's sister, Særún Norén, is a photographer. Rapace has said that she saw her father only occasionally before his death. At the age of five, she moved from Sweden to Flúðir, Iceland, with her mother and stepfather. At the age of seven, she made her film debut in the

Tuva Moa Matilda Karolina Novotny Hedström (born 21 December 1979), simply known as Tuva Novotny, is a Swedish actress and singer. She was born in Stockholm but grew up in Åmot outside Arvika. Tuva is the daughter of Czech movie director David Novotny and actress Barbro Hedström. She is currently living in Copenhagen in Denmark. She has the legendary Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman as a role model.

Ulrika Ericsson (born Anna Ulrika Eriksson on September 10, 1970 in Gävle, Gävleborg County) is a Swedish model and actress. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for November 1996.