Birgitta Margaretha Ulfsson (1 July 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a Finnish actress and theater director. She was a versatile actor and a recognized pioneer of avant-garde theater in Finland.Ulfsson, Birgitta (1928–)
in ''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland'' . She started her career at

Svenska Teatern The Swedish Theatre ( sv, Svenska Teatern) is a Swedish-language theatre in Helsinki, Finland, and is located at the Erottaja ( sv, Skillnaden) square, at the end of Esplanadi ( sv, Esplanaden). It was the first national stage of Finland. His ...

, a theater in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

for

Swedish-language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countr ...

theater productions. She created roles both in Finnish and in Swedish language, and from the early 1980s, she worked regularly also in Sweden. In Sweden, she was best known as "Muminmamma" in the TV series about Mumintrollet and for her role in ''

Rederiet ''Rederiet'' (''High Seas'' or ''The Shipping Company'') was a (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors. The 45-minute epi ...

''.

Personal life

From 1952 to 1984, she was married to actor

Lasse Pöysti Lasse Erik Pöysti (24 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer. He was born in Sortavala. Biography Pöysti began his career as a child actor, becoming known to the Finnish public as Olli Suomin ...

. From 2007 until her death in 2017, she was married to

Iwar Wiklander Iwar Wiklander (born 30 May 1939) is a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1963. Selected filmography References External links * 1939 births Living people Swedish male film actors {{Sweden-actor-stub ...

. The couple resided in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

, Sweden. Her son Erik Pöysti and granddaughter Alma Pöysti are both actors in

Selected filmography

*1983 – ''

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon ''A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon'' ( sv, Berget på månens baksida) is a 1983 Swedish drama film about the life of the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, written by Agneta Pleijel and directed by Lennart Hjulström. Gunilla Nyroos w ...

'' *1986 – ''

The Serpent's Way ''The Serpent's Way'' ( sv, Ormens väg på hälleberget) is a 1986 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the novel The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 ...

'' *1992 – ''

Sunday's Children ''Sunday's Children'' ( sv, Söndagsbarn) is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Daniel Bergman and written by Ingmar Bergman. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Cinematography (Tony Forsberg) and Thommy Berggren wa ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ulfsson, Birgitta 1928 births 2017 deaths Finnish film actresses Actresses from Helsinki Finnish stage actresses 20th-century Finnish actresses Finnish theatre directors Finnish women theatre directors Finnish expatriates in Sweden Swedish-speaking Finns