''Vicky'' Lillemor Birgitta von der Lancken, (born ''Lillemor Lindberg'', 4 July 1942) is a Swedish entertainment producer and theater director.

Career

Vicky von der Lanckens career started in 1971, she became involved in the Yrkes-trubadurernas förening (YTF). She has continued her career with stage productions, she worked with the production of ''Rhapsody In Rock'', ''Hotelliggaren'', '' Svensson, Svensson'', ''Glenn Killing på Grand'', ''Som om inget hade hänt'', ''Maken till fruar'', ''

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'', ''Tältprojektet'', ''Fångad på nätet'', ''Lögn i helvete'', '' Kvarteret Skatan'' at

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in Stockholm. Since 1989, Vicky von der Lancken has concentrated her work on the musical and theater stage productions such as ''

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'', and the stage production of ''

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''. She owns the entertainment production company Vicky Nöjesproduktion. She is the co-owner of the

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in Stockholm. On 2 February 2011, she was awarded the Smilbandetpris for her work, she was given the award by the king of Sweden,

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. On 8 August 2011, Vicky von der Lancken presenten an episode of

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were she told about her life. On 6 March 2003, Vicky von der Lancken was sentenced to one year imprisonment for tax fraud. She served five months at an open low security prison in Sagsjön.

Personal life

Vicky von der Lancken was born in

Huskvarna Huskvarna (; formerly spelled ''Husqvarna'') constitutes the eastern part of Jönköping, a city in the Sweden, Swedish province of Småland, and has a population of about 24,000. The distance to central Jönköping is about 5 km. The name ...

to a couple that soon divorced. At age 8 months, she was

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by another couple. Her adoptive mother died from cancer around the time Vicky was 8 years old and then she grew up with a single father until he remarried when she was 15. It was her stepmother who informed Vicky that she was adopted. She met

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in 1963 and married him in 1966, the couple divorced three years later. They had a son, Johan, whom she raised as a single mother in

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, Stockholm. Johan is an entertainment producer currently working in his mother's business.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:von der Lancken, Vicky Living people 1946 births Swedish directors People from Jönköping