Inga Landgré | |
Birth Name: | Inga Linnéa Lundgren |
Birth Date: | 6 August 1927 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Death Place: | Norberg, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 1943 - 2023 |
Partner: | Roger Björnstjerna (1982–2006) |
Inga Linnéa Landgré (née Lundgren; 6 August 1927 – 31 July 2023) was a Swedish actress who worked in theatre, television, and films from the 1940s on.
Inga Landgré was born in Stockholm on 6 August 1927. Her father was a struggling musician whose alcoholism strained her parents' marriage. Her mother was a waitress.[1] They divorced in the early 1930s, when Landgré was only five years old. She was an only child.[2] She received her theatrical education at Calle Flygare Teaterskola and made her acting debut in 1944 at the Blanche Theatre as Anya in the Anton Chekhov play The Cherry Orchard.[3]
Landgré started appearing in motion pictures around this time as well, starting with the 1943 film Ordet. In 1946, she starred in Crisis, Ingmar Bergman's directorial debut.[4]
Landgré was married to the Swedish actor Nils Poppe between 1949 and 1959. The couple had two children together, of whom one also became an actress.[5] In the 1960s, she acted as a courier for her friend Andreas Papandreou, who later became the prime minister of Greece, by delivering microfilm to Greece.[3]
Inga Landgré died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 95.[6]
Landgré won the Guldbagge Honorary Award in 2011, but received it in January 2012.[7]
Year | Title | Role | |
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1945 | The Rose of Tistelön | Josefine | |
1946 | Crisis | Nelly | |
Pengar – en tragikomisk saga | Maria Bergdahl | ||
Sunshine Follows Rain | Barbro | ||
The Balloon | Rosita | ||
While the Door Was Locked | Birgit Ström | ||
1947 | Rail Workers | Hildur | |
Wedding Night | Mary | ||
1948 | Eva | Frida | |
Private Bom | Agnes | ||
1949 | Dangerous Spring | Ulla | |
1950 | While the City Sleeps | Iris Lindström | |
The Quartet That Split Up | Märta Åvik | ||
1951 | Customs Officer Bom | Frida | |
1952 | Bom the Flyer | Matilda | |
1953 | Stupid Bom | Camilla | |
Dance, My Doll | Elise | ||
1955 | Dreams | Mrs. Lobelius | |
1956 | Det är aldrig för sent | ||
1957 | The Seventh Seal | Karin | |
Encounters in the Twilight | Alice Wiegel | ||
A Dreamer's Journey | Ziri Stuart | ||
1958 | Brink of Life | Greta Ellius | |
We at Väddö | Berit Sundberg | ||
1967 | Hugo and Josephine | Josephine's mother | |
1968 | The Corridor | The mother | |
1977 | Paradise Place | Saga | |
1997 | In the Presence of a Clown (TV film) | Alma Berglund | |
2003 | Tur & retur | Greta | |
2011 | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Isabella | |
2015 | Holy Mess | Gun-Britt |