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Barbro Oborg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Barbro Christina Oborg 3 July 1941 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Spouse(s) | Sten Ljunggren (m. 1968;div. 1979) (m. 1991) |
| Children | 3 |
Barbro Christina Oborg Ljunggren (born 3 July 1941) is a Swedish actress. She is married to Sten Ljunggren.
Barbro Margareta Svensson, known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best known and popular singers. She represented Sweden in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest in Cannes with the song "April, april". She was also well-known for the song "Är du kär i mej ännu Klas-Göran?".
Bobby Ljunggren is a Swedish songwriter. He has entered the Eurovision Song Contest as a composer six times, five times for his native Sweden, and once for Lithuania, in 2005. He is a veteran of the Melodifestivalen competition, with 50 entries, reaching the milestone of half a century of entries at Melodifestivalen 2020. In Melodifestivalen 2008, he co-wrote both the winning song and the songs placing second and third.
Dalecarlians is a 2004 Swedish film starring Sofia Helin. The word "masjävlar" is a derogatory term for Dalecarlians, who are usually known as masar.
Most Beloved Sister is a 1949 children's book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. It was originally included in the collection Nils Karlsson-Pyssling: sagor, then re-released in 1973 with illustrations by Hans Arnold.
Barbro Lindgren is a Swedish writer of children's books and books for adult readers. For her lasting contribution as a children's writer, Lindgren was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Ten years later she won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The biggest cash prize in children's and young-adult literature, it rewards a writer, illustrator, oral storyteller, or reading promoter for its entire body of work.
John Arthur Ljunggren was a Swedish race walker. He competed in the 50 kilometer event at the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, ninth, third, second and 16th place, respectively. At the European Championships he won a gold medal in 1946, a silver medal in 1950, and finished fourth in 1954 and fifth in 1962.
Barbro Kollberg was a Swedish film actress. Born in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's 1946 It Rains on Our Love. She lived to be 96.
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was a Swedish stage and film actress.
S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1988, and directed by Lasse Åberg.
Barbro Alving was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonym Bang. She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She reported from various scenes during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.
Barbro is a female given name in Scandinavia, with the same origin as Barbara. In a village in Dalecarlia, Barbro is also an "estate name", a unisex concept not taken into account in the Swedish name law, which leads to a lot of confusion.
Per Michael "Joe" Ljunggren was a Swedish outlaw biker, gangster and member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. Ljunggren was a central figure in the Nordic Biker War, in which the Bandidos feuded with the Hells Angels. He was shot dead while riding his motorcycle on the E4 motorway in Småland. The murder remains unsolved, but police believe members of the Hells Angels to be responsible.
Pistvakt – En vintersaga was a Swedish television series, produced by SVT subdepartment SVT Drama, and aired over SVT1 between 15 January 1998 and 30 November 2000. It is based on a play by Pistolteatern. It was followed by the film Pistvakt.
Sten Ivar Ljunggren is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter.
The National Association for Women's Suffrage was a part of the general suffrage movement and the national society for women's suffrage in Sweden. It functioned as a parallel to the Sveriges allmänna rösträttsförbund which was active mainly in acquiring full suffrage for males. The LKPR was a part of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. It was active locally from 1902 as the Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt, and nationwide as the Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt from 1903 until 1921.
Nobody Owns Me is a 2013 Swedish drama film directed by Kjell-Åke Andersson. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Åsa Linderborg, and stars Mikael Persbrandt, Tanja Lorentzon och Sten Ljunggren. Mikael Persbrandt was nominated and won in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 49th Guldbagge Awards.
Under mitt tak is the second studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Sonja Aldén, released in 2008.
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Sweden.
Allrakäraste syster is a 1988 Swedish film directed by Göran Carmback and based on the novel Most Beloved Sister by Astrid Lindgren.
Barbro Nilsson née Lundberg (1899–1983) was a Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for her large tapestries, including the one she produced in collaboration with Sven Erixson for the Gothenburg Concert Hall in 1939. She was active as a teacher at Konstfack and as head of Märta Måås-Fjetterström's weaving establishment in Båstad. Nilsson produced her own rugs and church textiles, many with motives inspired by nature.
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