Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has been nominated for several acting awards, including a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and an Academy Award for Enemies, A Love Story (1989). Other well-known films in which she has appeared include Chocolat (2000), directed by her husband Lasse Hallström, Queen of the Damned (2002), Casanova (2005) and The Reader (2008). Olin was also a main cast member in the second season of the television series Alias. Olin starred in the Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden.
Gustaf Fröding was a Swedish poet and writer, born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad.
Signe Hasso was a Swedish actress, writer and composer.
Karin Inger Monica Nilsson is a Swedish actress and singer. She is a former child actress. She is primarily known for her portrayal of Pippi Longstocking in the Swedish-produced TV series of the same name during 1969 which was compiled, re-dubbed into Dutch and later also in English and many other languages, and released as two feature films in 1969. In 1970, she reprised her role of Pippi in two subsequent feature films. She currently works as a secretary in Stockholm, occasionally taking small stage roles.
Stina Åsa Maria Ekblad is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. Living in Stockholm, she has appeared mostly in Swedish productions. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar.
Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish actress and theatre director.
Inday Ba, also known as N'Deaye Ba, was a Swedish-British film, stage, and television actress born in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Elisabet "Lisa" Lindgren is a Swedish actress.
Ewa Fröling, Eva Marie Fröling , is a Swedish actress and director who was born in Stockholm. She is internationally most recognized for her leading parts in Gunnel Lindblom's Sally och friheten and Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.
Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt".
John Björn Sture Kjellman, is a Swedish actor and singer. He played roles in Swedish movies like Klassfesten and Livet är en schlager, in which he plays a Melodifestivalen-obsessed transvestite who is brother to Helena Bergström's character, who takes part in the Swedish Melodifestivalen in the movie.
Inga Sofia Tidblad was a Swedish actress. She was one of the most praised actresses in Swedish theatre during her lifetime.
Hannes Martin Holm, is a Swedish director and screenwriter. He makes almost all of his films with Måns Herngren.
Carola Ingrid Margareta Segerstedt Luterkort was a Swedish actress and stage director, whose professional career spanned from the 1930s until 2010.
Cecilia Pillado is an Italian Argentine German film television and stage actor, a classical pianist and a composer. In 2005 she launched in Germany her own record label Tango Malambo which was inactive until 2013, because in the meanwhile her recordings were released under Sony Classical Germany.
Birgitta Maria Cecilia Nilsson is a Swedish actress. She has appeared at many theatres. She is married to Krister Henriksson.
Inger Ester Malena Engström is a Swedish actress.
Anna Kristina Cecilia Blomberg is a Swedish actress and comedian. She has appeared in many TV series, among them Häxan Surtant, Kvarteret Skatan, and Superhjältejul. In addition, she performs on the stage and radio. In 2009 she participated in SVT's julkalender.
Ylva Cecilia Larsdotter Ljung is a Swedish actress. She studied at Malmö Theatre Academy 1982–85.
