''Kajsa'' Anna-Karin Linnéa Ernst, (born 4 August 1962) is a
Swedish
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actress. She started acting at the age of sixteen at Nöjesteatern in
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
and studied at Teaterhögskolan in Malmö. After graduating she worked for ten years at Helsingborgs stadsteater.
There she acted in several plays such as ''Byggmästare Solness'', ''Spindelkvinnans kyss'' and ''Knäckebröd och hovmästarsås''.
In 1982 she danced balet at plays for
Nils Poppe
Nils Poppe (31 May 1908 – 28 June 2000) was a Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'', but in Sweden he was much loved and ...
at Fredriksdalsteatern, and in 1990 she played a role in the play ''Två man och en änka'' at the same theater. She would appear in the filmatization of the play in 2013.
In 1998, Ernst moved to Stockholm. She made her film debut in
Kjell Sundvall
Kjell Gösta Sundvall (born 31 March 1953) is a Swedish director/producer.
Sundvall has directed a series of films about the police officer Martin Beck (played by Peter Haber).
Selected filmography
* 2015 - ''Prästen i paradiset''
* 2015 - ...
s ''
In Bed with Santa
''In Bed with Santa'' ( sv, Tomten är far till alla barnen, "Santa is the father to all the children") is a Swedish black comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 November 1999, directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was ...
'' in 1999, she has then moved on to act in films such as ''Miffo'' in 2003, ''Masjävlar'' in 2004 for which she won a Guldbagge award, and also in the film ''Järnets änglar''.
Kajsa Ernst was married to actor and director
Göran Stangertz
Göran Nils Robert Stangertz (19 July 1944 – 27 October 2012) was a Swedish actor, director and artistic leader at Helsingborgsteatern. He won Sweden's most prestigious film award Guldbagge Award twice in the category best male leading role for ...
from 2009 and until his death in 2012.
References
External links
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Living people
1962 births
Swedish actresses
Actors from Gothenburg