IMDb: Most Popular People Born In "Stockholm/ Sweden"

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1.		Malin Akerman Actress, Watchmen Malin was born in Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her father is an insurance-broker and her mother is a model. They moved to Toronto when she was age 2. At age 5, she began appearing in TV commercials. Her parents divorced when she was 6 and her father returned to Sweden. At age 17, she won the Canadian title of Ford Supermodel...
2.		Alexander Skarsgård Actor, You'll Be the Death of Me Sweden may not have a large population but it has gifted the world with bounty of astonishing directors and actors. Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow and Ingrid Bergman are just the tip of the iceberg of Nordic actors and filmmakers who have enchanted and engaged cinemaphiles across the globe: Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård is poised to join their ranks...
3.		Joel Kinnaman Actor, Pilot
4.		Gustaf Skarsgård Actor, Evil
5.		Dolph Lundgren Actor, The Expendables Dolph Lundgren was born in Stockholm and lived there until the age of 13, when he moved to his grandparents in Nyland, Ångermanland, Sweden. Despite an early interest in music and the fine arts, Dolph decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue an Engineering degree. After having completed his military service, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm...
6.		Ingrid Bergman Actress, Casablanca Born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915 - Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, second only to Katharine Hepburn...
7.		Lena Olin Actress, The Ninth Gate Swedish-born Lena Olin already had a successful career as an actress before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and was directed by Ingmar Bergman. Her father, Stig Olin, was also an actor and played in six of Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family"...
8.		Helena Mattsson Actress, Seven Psychopaths Helena Mattsson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, with her two sisters. In her early teens she was discovered by one of the biggest modeling agencies in Sweden. After graduating from her Performing Arts High School in Stockholm, Helena traveled to London and New York to continue to study acting...
9.		Michael Nyqvist Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, it wasn't until he was over a year old when he was finally adopted from the orphanage he had been given to. His father was a lawyer and his mother a writer. It wasn't until he had his first child that he decided to seek out his biological parents. After a long journey...
10.		Lasse Hallström Director, Chocolat
11.		Julia Winter Actress, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Julia Winter is the envy of tween-age girls everywhere, having being plucked from obscurity to play Veruca Salt in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, alongside Johnny Depp. It is the London schoolgirl's first professional role, although she studies drama weekly at a part-time theatre school...
12.		Katia Winter Actress, Arena Swedish born actress Katia Winter moved to London at an early age, where she studied acting and film editing. She has appeared in British Television and Films including the UK drama "Unmade Beds" (2009), directed by award-winning Alexis Dos Santos and "Everywhere and Nowhere" (2011) directed by Mejhad Huda...
13.		Mini Anden Actress, Ocean's Twelve
14.		Sam Skarsgård Miscellaneous Crew, The Invisible
15.		Greta Garbo Actress, Ninotchka Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 1905. She was 14 when her father died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store. The store used her for her modeling abilities for newspaper ads. She had no film aspirations...
16.		Inger Stevens Actress, Hang 'Em High As a child she moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where she lived all the way through high school. When her father moved away, she moved in with a friend and stayed. She took dance classes at Kansas State University, then moved to Kansas City, where she taught dance and first got into modeling.
17.		Britt Ekland Actress, The Man with the Golden Gun Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a hotel...
18.		Allan Corduner Actor, Gladiator Born in Stockholm, Sweden to a German mother and Russo-Finnish father, Allan Corduner moved to England with his parents at the age of one year old, growing up in London. His parents were artistic and encouraged his early ambition to become a concert pianist - he is still extremely accomplished on the piano...
19.		Matias Varela Actor, Easy Money
20.		Alexandra Rapaport Actress, The Hunt
21.		Tag Eriksson Actor, The Hole
22.		Tuva Novotny Actress, Jalla! Jalla!
23.		Malin Crépin Actress, Nobel's Last Will
24.		Liv Mjönes Actress, Kiss Me
25.		Shanti Roney Actor, Together
26.		Johan Matton Actor, That Girl, That Time Award winning actor Johan Patrik Fredrik Matton moved from Stockholm, Sweden to New York in 2008 to join the young few Swedish actors in the US. Johan attended and graduated from 3 major Theatre schools; the renowned Circle in The Square Theatre School on Broadway, New York Film Academy and Calle Flygare's Theatre School of Sweden...
27.		Pernilla August Actress, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Pernilla August started acting as a child, performing in plays at Vår teater and at school. In 1979 she was accepted at the Statens scenskola to study acting professionally. Director Ingmar Bergman took note of her early and cast her as a nanny in his Fanny and Alexander. In 1982 she got married to author Klas Östergren and started work at the Folkteatern in Gävle...
28.		Christian Wennberg Actor, From Trauma Cometh Something
29.		Daniel Alfredson Director, The Girl Who Played with Fire
30.		Bibi Andersson Actress, Persona Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom, playing against Nils Poppe...
31.		Jonas Åkerlund Director, Spun
32.		Andreas Wilson Actor, Evil
33.		Kåre Hedebrant Actor, Let the Right One In Kare lives with his mother, father and sister in the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. He attends Adolf Fredrik's School of Music, the oldest specialized elementary school in Sweden. In 2008 Kare starred in his first feature film "Let the Right One In". Before that he played the title role in a theatrical production of one of Astrid Lindgren's children's books...
34.		David Hoflin Actor, A Cry in the Dark
35.		Amelia Curtis Actress, FeardotCom
36.		Emma Wiklund Actress, Taxi
37.		Camilla Sparv Actress, The Trouble with Angels
38.		Puma Swede Actress, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Sweden's contribution to the adult entertainment industry came in the form of the blond-haired, shapely Puma Swede. Born Johanna Jussinniemi on September 13, in Stockholm, Sweden to parents originally from Finland, Puma found work as a computer sales representative before moving on to being a feature dancer and glamor model...
39.		Eva Röse Actress, Kopps After making the children's TV show 'Disneyklubben' she began to study acting at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm. She graduated with a performance in Lars Norén's play 'Munich-Aten'. She has done a lot of roles for both radio and television. She is currently under contract with The Royal Dramatic Theatre...
40.		Harriet Andersson Actress, Dogville Harriet Andersson came to Malmä stadsteater and met Ingmar Bergman in 1953. Her career is strongly tied to Bergman. Especially her film career in which she often appeared as strong, independent women, not rarely from the working class, with an erotic charisma. Andersson got her breakthrough with the title role in Summer with Monika...
41.		Frida Hallgren Actress, As It Is in Heaven
42.		Nina Norén Actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
43.		Peter Haber Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
44.		Benny Andersson Soundtrack, The Hangover Part II Benny Andersson was born in 1946 outside of Stockholm, Sweden. His father and grandfather both being musicians, Benny was introduced to the accordion at an early age. With little patience for conventional music lessons, Benny is known to pick up just about any instrument and play it with ease. After he left high school...
45.		Pia Lindström Self, You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
46.		Sven-Bertil Taube Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
47.		Leif Andrée Actor, Kitchen Stories
48.		Gunnar Björnstrand Actor, The Seventh Seal Gunnar Björnstrand made his debut on the Hippodrom-theatre in Malmö, but later worked mainly in Stockholm at various theatres. In film he began playing comedic roles as authoritarian characters with inclination for sadism, for example in Nils Poppe's Bom-series. But it was with Ingmar Bergman that the challenge and fame came: from the 1950s comedies...
49.		Johanna Sällström Actress, Beneath the Surface Johanna Sällström was born on December 30, 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1997 she won the award Guldbaggen for best female leading role in the movie Beneath the Surface, which became her big breakthrough. Getting tired off all the interest around herself she moved to Denmark where she worked at a café shop...
50.		Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen Actress, Batman & Robin Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen was born in Stockholm on January 12th, 1967. She was first discovered at a restaurant in Sweden at the age of 13 by Eileen Ford. Within 3 to 4 months, of arriving in the US, she was negociating a contract with 'Elizabeth Arden'. When her contract with Arden ended she started working with Almay as their spokesperson...

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