The Gunn Wållgren Award ( Swedish: ''Gunn Wållgren-stipendiet'') is one of

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

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s for young actresses. It was instituted in the 1980s in memory and honor of notable Swedish stage and film actress

Gunn Wållgren Gunn Wållgren (born Gunnel Margaret Haraldsdotter Wållgren; ; 16 November 1913 – 4 June 1983) was a Swedish actress. Considered one of Sweden's better actresses, Wållgren was famous for her fragile and sensual way of acting and her inne ...

(1913–1983). Grants from the Gunn Wållgren Memorial Fund are jointly awarded by the

Royal Dramatic Theater The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the ...

(''Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern''), the

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(''Kungliga Operan'') and the

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(''Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien''). Awards are given out annually on the anniversary of Wållgren's birthday (November 16) to a young promising Swedish actress of the stage. The prize sum consists of 20,000 Swedish Kronor.

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