Karolina Alfrida ("Frida") Winnerstrand, ''n̩e Kumlin'' (23 January 1881 Р1 December 1943) was a
Swedish
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actress.
Biography
Born in Lövsta,
Järfälla,
Stockholm
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, Frida Winnerstrand made her debut 1896 in the Anna Lundbergs Theatre Company and later studied acting at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (Dramatens elevskola) in Stockholm 1900-1901. Later she joined the Hillberg Company (1901–02) and the
Selander Company The Selander Company was a famous and renowned theatre company in Sweden from 1889–1928 run by the theatre couple Hjalmar and Concordia Selander.
They were famous for discovering and producing young stage talents, for quality productions on tour ...
(1902–03) on tour. Performed at
Albert Ranft
Albert Adam Ranft (23 November 1858 – 5 October 1938) was a Swedish theatre director and actor.
Biography
Albert Adam Ranft was born in Stockholm, the son of Adolf Fredrik Ranft and Katarina Amalia Reijhell. His brother Gustaf Adolf Ranft ...
's theatre, old
Östermalmsteatern 1903, at the
Swedish Theatre
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His ...
1904 and from 1905-19 at
Vasateatern
Vasateatern or ''"Vasan"'' (English: ''Vasa Theatre'') is a private theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located at Vasagatan 19–21 in central Stockholm.
History
The theater was designed by Fredrik Ekberg (1837- 1898) and inaugurated in 1886. ...
. From 1919 to her death in 1943 she worked at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre
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The the ...
in Stockholm where some of her most notable parts were as Lady Chiltern in
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
s ''
An Ideal Husband
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'' (1919), Adelaide i play ''Johan Ulfstjerna'', Julia Swedenhielm in
Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman (19 September 1883 in Örebro, Sweden – 1 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swedish writer and playwright.
Biography
The son of a banker in Örebro, Bergman briefly studied philosophy at Uppsala Univers ...
s ''Swedenhielms'' (1925), Essie Miller in
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier ...
s ''
Ah, Wilderness!
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'' (1935–36), Mrs Heyst in
Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
s ''Easter'' and as Mor i Falla in
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...
s ''Kejsarn av Portugallien (The Emperor of Portugal) (1939)''.
Frida Winnerstrand made her film debut in 1920 in
Pauline Brunius
Pauline Brunius, née ''Emma Maria Pauline Lindstedt'' (10 February 1881 in Stockholm – 30 March 1954 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor, screenwriter and film and theatre director. She was the managing director of the Royal Dra ...
silent short film ''De läckra skaldjuren'', and played altogether 10 parts on film (only three talkies). She was since 1906 married to Swedish actor
Olof Winnerstrand
Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand (26 August 1875 – 16 July 1956) was a Swedish actor.
Biography
Born in a bourgeois home in Stockholm, Winnerstrand was a son of the well-known Stockholm goldsmith and jeweller C.A. Winnerstrand, and started o ...
. They often appeared together on stage and played opposite each other in the popular long-running radio series ''Familjen Björck (The Björck Family)'', as Mr and Mrs Björck (that aired in Swedish Radio, SR, between 1936-1943), and later also in the popular film adaption of the series, shot in 1940.
Selected filmography
*''De läckra skaldjuren'' (1920)
* ''
Adventure
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'' (1936)
* ''
Thunder and Lightning'' (1938)
* ''
The Bjorck Family
''The Bjorck Family'' (Swedish: ''Familjen Björck'') is a 1940 Swedish comedy film directed by Anders Henrikson and starring Olof Winnerstrand, Frida Winnerstrand and Birgitta Arman.Qvist & Von Bagh p.110 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna St ...
'' (1940)
Further reading
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External links
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1881 births
1943 deaths
Swedish stage actresses
Swedish film actresses
Swedish silent film actresses
20th-century Swedish actresses