The Eugene O'Neill Award (Swedish: ''O'Neill-stipendiet'') is one of Sweden's finest awards for stage actors.
It is a scholarship for actors at the Swedish theater.
It has been awarded annually by the
Royal Dramatic Theatre
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 ...
since 1956.
History
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888–1953) was a noted American playwright. He was a four winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for drama and was the
Nobel laureate for literature in 1936.
Just before Eugene O'Neill died in 1953, he drew up a will in which he gave the then not yet staged play ''
Long Day's Journey Into Night'' (written in 1941) to Sweden's
Royal Dramatic Theatre
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 ...
(''Dramaten''), along with exclusive first performance rights. The play had its world premiere in
Stockholm on February 2, 1956. The gesture was as thanks for
Dramaten
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 ...
's continued interest in staging his plays (more so than any other theatre in the world), and for Swedish appreciation of his work long before he became recognized internationally, or in his home country.
Later his widow American stage and film actress
Carlotta Monterey (1888– 1970), also gave
Dramaten
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 ...
the performing rights to ''
A Touch of the Poet
''A Touch of the Poet'' is a play by Eugene O'Neill completed in 1942 but not performed until 1958, after his death.
It and its sequel, ''More Stately Mansions'', were intended to be part of a nine- play cycle entitled ''A Tale of Possessors Sel ...
'' (1942), ''
Hughie'' (1942) and ''
More Stately Mansions
''More Stately Mansions'' is a play by Eugene O'Neill.
Originally intended to be part of a nine-play cycle entitled ''A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed'', ''Mansions'' was an incomplete rough draft written between 1936 and 1939 that O'Neill ...
'' (posthumous). She refused staging fees for his plays in Sweden, provided that 8% of the royalties from the revenues of each performance were given to the Eugene O'Neill Memory Fund, which manages the money for the Eugene O'Neill Award.
The scholarship is bestowed annually on the 16th of October, the anniversary of O'Neill's birthday. In accordance with O'Neill's own wishes, it is given to "highly deserving actors of Dramaten". Recipients of the award are decided by Dramaten's board of directors.
As an extra honour to
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature, literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama tech ...
, the first award was granted to the two actors who played the leading parts of James and Mary Tyrone in the original staging of ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' at
Dramaten
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 ...
in February 1956;
Lars Hanson
Lars Mauritz Hanson (26 July 1886 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.
Biography
Born in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on t ...
(1886–1965) and
Inga Tidblad
Inga Sofia Tidblad (29 May 1901 – 12 September 1975) was a Swedish actress. She was one of the most praised actresses in Swedish theatre during her lifetime.
Biography
Tidblad grew up in Stockholm as daughter to engineer Otto Tidblad and ...
(1901–1975).
Recipients
*1956 –
Lars Hanson
Lars Mauritz Hanson (26 July 1886 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.
Biography
Born in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on t ...
and
Inga Tidblad
Inga Sofia Tidblad (29 May 1901 – 12 September 1975) was a Swedish actress. She was one of the most praised actresses in Swedish theatre during her lifetime.
Biography
Tidblad grew up in Stockholm as daughter to engineer Otto Tidblad and ...
*1957 –
Tora Teje
*1958 –
Anders Henrikson
Anders Henrik Henrikson (13 June 1896 – 17 October 1965) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1965. He also directed 30 films between 1933 and 1956.
Selected filmography Actor
* '' The ...
*1959 –
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 ...
*1960 –
Ulf Palme
*1961 –
Eva Dahlbeck
Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck (8 March 1920 – 8 February 2008) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film ''Brink of Life'' (1958). Dahlbeck retired ...
*1962 –
Olof Sandborg
Olof Sandborg (April 30, 1884 in Göteborg – March 26, 1965 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962.
Filmography
* '' Blodets röst'' (1913)
* '' Lady Marions sommarflirt'' (1913)
* ''Svär ...
*1963 –
Georg Rydeberg
Olof Georg Rydeberg (21 July 1907 – 22 February 1983) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1981. He was married to the Finnish actress Birgit Sergelius.
Partial filmography
* '' International Mat ...
*1964 –
Sif Ruud
*1965 –
Holger Löwenadler
Holger Carl Minton Löwenadler (1 April 1904 – 18 June 1977) was a Swedish film actor. He starred in Ingmar Bergman's ''A Ship to India'' (1947). He appeared in ''Divorced'' (1951), which was written by Bergman. Other appearances include ...
*1966 –
Gertrud Fridh
Gertrud Fridh (26 November 1921 – 11 October 1984) was a Swedish stage and film actress.
Biography
Born in Gothenburg, Fridh later studied acting at Gothenburg City Theatre's acting school from 1941 to 1944. She worked in the 1940s and 195 ...
*1967 –
Olof Widgren
*1968 –
Irma Christenson
*1969 –
Jan-Olof Strandberg
Jan-Olof Strandberg (9 September 1926 – 2 May 2020) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He appeared in 45 films since 1947. On stage one of his most famous parts was as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'', at Sweden's Royal Dr ...
*1970 –
Birgitta Valberg
Birgitta Valberg (16 December 1916 – 29 March 2014) was a Swedish actress. She was best known for her work in several Ingmar Bergman films made over a 30-year period, including the Bergman produced ''Paradise Place'' (1977). For her role in ...
*1971 –
Anders Ek
Anders Ek (7 April 1916 – 17 November 1979) was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and died in Stockholm. He was married to Birgit Cullberg and is the father of dancer Niklas Ek (born 1943), dancer Mats Ek and actres ...
*1972 –
Anita Björk
*1973 –
Olle Hilding
Olle Hilding (born Hilding Olof Johansson; 19 July 1898 – 9 November 1983) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He appeared in motion pictures between 1923-1982.
Biography
Hilding Olof Johansson was born and died in the Katarina Parish o ...
*1974 –
Margaretha Krook
Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook (15 October 1925 – 7 May 2001) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film ''Release the Prisoners to Spring''. ...
*1975 –
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård (12 December 1928 – 6 September 1998) was a Swedish actor.
Biography
Järegård was born in Ystad. He received his acting training at Malmö City Theatre. From 1962 he was an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dra ...
*1976 –
Toivo Pawlo
Toivo Pawlo (25 December 1917 – 14 June 1979) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1943 and 1978. At the 12th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film '' Hello Baby''.
Selected filmog ...
*1977 –
Ulla Sjöblom
Ulla Sjöblom (11 May 1927 – 3 August 1989) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1988.
Selected filmography
* ''House of Women'' (1953)
* ''Karin Månsdotter'' (1954)
* ''Simon the Sinner'' (1954)
* '' Ou ...
*1978 –
Ingvar Kjellson
Anders Ingvar Kjell Kjellson (20 May 1923 – 18 December 2014) was a Swedish stage and film actor.Ingvar Kjellson, biographic article in ''Nationalencyklopedin'' Kjellson was born in Kärna, Östergötland County. He was accepted at Dramatens ...
*1980 –
Allan Edwall
*1981 –
Aino Taube
*1982 –
Jarl Kulle
Jarl Lage Kulle (28 February 1927 – 3 October 1997) was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of Maria Kulle.
Kulle was born in the village of Truedstorp, outside Ekeby, Sweden, and was the son of the merchant Nils Kulle a ...
*1983 –
Ulf Johanson
*1984 –
Margaretha Byström
Margaretha Byström (born 2 August 1937, in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress (film, theater, television), writer and director. Margaretha is most famous for her portrayal as the elegant and ambitious Katarina Remmer in the long running Swedish so ...
*1985 –
Sven Lindberg
*1986 –
Mona Malm
Mona Kristina Wahlman (24 January 1935 – 12 January 2021), better known by her stage name Mona Malm, was a Swedish film, stage, and television actress. Born in 1935 to Harald Ericsson and Inez Malmberg, she began her career with the Swedish R ...
*1987 –
Hans Strååt
Hans Olof Strååt (17 October 1917 – 26 January 1991) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1941 and 1987.
Partial filmography
* '' Bright Prospects'' (1941) - Student
* '' Scanian Guerilla'' (1941) - Guerilla soldie ...
*1988 –
Bibi Andersson
Berit Elisabet Andersson (11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019), known professionally as Bibi Andersson (), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Early life and career
Ander ...
and
Jan Malmsjö
Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö (born 29 May 1932) is a Swedish stage and film actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.
Biography
Malmsjö was born in Lund, Sweden. He trained at the prestigious Roy ...
*1989 –
Gunnel Lindblom
Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom (18 December 1931 – 24 January 2021) was a Swedish film actress and director.
Career
As an actress, Lindblom was particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the l ...
*1990 –
Thommy Berggren
Thommy Berggren, né Tommy William Berggren (born 12 August 1937) is a Swedish actor. He is known for having starred in several films directed by Bo Widerberg, and was often considered one of the foremost Swedish film and theatre actors from t ...
*1991 –
Börje Ahlstedt
Nils Börje Ahlstedt (born 21 February 1939) is a Swedish actor who has worked extensively with the world-famous director Ingmar Bergman in films like ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1982), ''The Best Intentions'' (1992), '' Sunday's Children'' (1992) ...
*1992 –
Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson (; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Life and career ...
*1993 –
Lena Endre
Lena Endre (born 8 July 1955) is a Swedish actress of film and television,* primarily in the Swedish and Norwegian markets, known for her parts in the Liv Ullmann film '' Trolösa'' (2000), and the ''Millennium series'' of films (e.g., ''The Gir ...
*1994 –
Lennart Hjulström
Lennart Hjalmar Hjulström (18 July 1938 – 3 July 2022) was a Swedish actor and director. He was married to Gunilla Nyroos and father of Niklas and Carin Hjulström. His father was Filip Hjulström.
Partial filmography
*1983: '' Berget på ...
*1995 –
Stina Ekblad
*1996 –
Per Myrberg
Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.
Per or PER may also refer to:
Places
* IOC country code for Peru
* Pér, a village in Hungary
* Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland
Mat ...
*1997 –
Krister Henriksson
Jan Krister Allan Henriksson (born 12 November 1946) is a Swedish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Early life
Henriksson was born in Grisslehamn, Nor ...
*1998 –
Marie Göranzon
Britt-Marie Elisabeth Göranzon Malmsjö (born 27 October 1942) is a Swedish actress.
Marie Göranzon has been part of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble since 1967. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1964 to 1967.
...
*1999 –
Keve Hjelm
Karl Evert "Keve" Hjelm (23 June 1922 – 3 February 2004) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 70 films between 1943 and 2004. At the 1st Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his role in ''Raven's End''. At ...
*2000 –
Lil Terselius
Lil Poldi Terselius (5 November 1944 – 26 October 2021 Retrieved 27 October 2021 ) was a Swedish stage and film actress. At the 14th Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in ''Games of Love and Loneliness''. She wo ...
*2001 –
Örjan Ramberg
Ralf Örjan Valter Ramberg, né Rahmberg (26 February 1948), is a Swedish actor, born in Örgryte, Gothenburg.
Biography
Örjan Ramberg started his acting career in musicals with leading parts in the original Swedish stagings of '' Hair'' ( ...
*2002 –
Pernilla August
Pernilla August (; born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a Swedes, Swedish actor, actress, film director, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergm ...
*2003 –
Björn Granath
*2004 –
Irene Lindh
Lena Irene Lindh (born 13 October 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress and singer.
Lindh was born in Stockholm. She got her start in acting at eleven years of age at Vår teater, a children's theatre in Stockholm. Lindh studied at the a ...
*2005 –
Reine Brynolfsson
Reine Claes-Göran Brynolfsson (born 15 January 1953) is a Swedish actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern me ...
*2006 –
Lena Nyman
Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman (23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011) was a Swedish film and stage actress.
Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's '' 491'' (1964) and got her breakthrough in his ''I Am Curious (Yel ...
*2007 –
Rolf Skoglund
Rolf Fredrik Skoglund (11 August 1940 – 28 June 2022) was a Swedish actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2007.
References
External links
Rolf Skoglund on Swedish Film Database*
Rolf Skoglund Dramaten
The Royal Dramatic Theatr ...
*2008 –
Anita Wall
Kerstin ''Anita'' Wall (born 11 July 1940), is a Swedish stage and film actress.
She began acting at eleven years of age at Vår teater, a children's theatre, playing Pippi Longstocking and other roles.
From 1958 to 1959 she was employed by Rik ...
*2009 –
Hans Klinga
Hans Gösta Klinga (born 17 April 1949) is a Swedish stage and film actor and film director. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award
The Eugene O'Neill Award (Swedish: ''O'Neill-stipendiet'') is one of Sweden's finest awards for stage actors.
It is ...
*2010 –
Malin Ek
Malin Ek (born 18 April 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 2010. She is the daughter of actor Anders Ek (the 1971 O'Neill Award laureate) and choreographer Birgit Cullberg.
She won the award for Best ...
*2011 –
Johan Rabaeus
Johan Rabaeus (born ''Carl Magnus Olof Johan Rabéus'' 31 July 1947) is a Swedish actor who was born in Stockholm but grew up in Paris and Geneva.
He is known for portraying very unpleasant characters, such as Erik Ponti's sadistic stepfather i ...
*2012 –
Kristina Törnqvist Kristina may refer to:
Places
*the Swedish name of Ristiina, a town in Finland
People
*the Swedish name of Christina of Sweden
*Kristina (singer), Kristina (born 1987), Slovak singer
*Kristina Adolphson (born 1937), Swedish actress
*Kristina Apgar ...
*2013 –
Pontus Gustafsson
Pontus Karl Fredrik Gustafsson (born 15 August 1955, in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. He started his career when he was 12 years old, then he played Mowgli's Swedish voice in ''The Jungle Book'' ("Djungelboken" in Swedish). Since 1977 he works a ...
*2014 –
Thérèse Brunnander
*2015 –
Per Mattsson
Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.
Per or PER may also refer to:
Places
* IOC country code for Peru
* Pér, a village in Hungary
* Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland
Math ...
*2016 –
Melinda Kinnaman
Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman (born 9 November 1971) is a Swedish-American actress.
Life and career
Kinnaman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to American parents Dee and Steve Kinnaman. Her paternal half-brother Joel Kinnaman is also an actor.
By age ...
*2017 –
Jonas Karlsson
Sven Bert Jonas Karlsson (born 11 March 1971) is a Swedish actor and author.
Karlsson was born in Salem. He won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in 2004 for the movie '' Details''. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, i ...
*2018 –
Ingela Olsson
Ingela Maria Olsson (born 28 February 1958 in Nybro, Sweden) is a Swedish actress.
Olsson was active in many different theatre groups during the 1980s. She started working at the Galeasen theatre in 1989, and appeared at Stockholms stadsteat ...
*2019 –
Erik Ehn
*2020 –
Marie Richardson
Marie Elisabet Richardson (born 6 June 1959) is a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from 1982 to 1985 and has been employed by The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm ever since. Richa ...
See also
*
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, previously the Forrest Theatre and the Coronet Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 230 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and ...
References
External links
Dramaten official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eugene O'neill Award
Swedish theatre awards
Awards established in 1956
Eugene O'Neill Award winners
1956 establishments in Sweden