Carl Edvard Stjernström (11 October 1816 – 10 February 1877) was a Swedish stage actor and theater director. In 1833, he was accepted as a student at the

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre (, 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 theatre has been at its present lo ...

. From 1842 to 1850, he was employed at Nya Teatern. He was the director of the Stjernström theater Company from 1850 to 1854, director of the

Mindre Teatern Mindre teatern (''The Smaller Theatre''), Nya teatern (''The New Theatre''), Lindeberska teatern (''The Lindeberg Theatre''), was a Swedish theatre at Kungsgatan in Stockholm, active 1842–1863. The building was used as localities for the Royal ...

in Stockholm from 1854 to 1863, and the founder and manager of the Nya Teatern from 1875 to 1877. He played a significant role in 19th-century theatre in both

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, where his theater company was regarded to be one of the most prestigious, as well as in

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, where his theater company was given theatre monopoly to perform from 1850 to 1853. In 1846, he was married to the actress Sophia Wilhelmina Lamby (1804–1851); in 1854 to the playwright Jeanette Granberg (1825–1857); and in 1861 to her sister Louise Granberg (1812–1907).

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* Georg Nordensvan (1918). Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar, Andra bandet, 1842-1918.. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Boktryckeri. 1816 births 1877 deaths Swedish theatre directors 19th-century Swedish male actors Swedish male stage actors 19th-century theatre managers {{Sweden-stage-actor-stub