Sickan Carlsson(1915-2011)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Her first public performance was on radio at the age of 10, together
with her friend Birgit Tengroth. She debuted in a revue held at her father's
place of work when she was 15. This led to more work at the theatre, a
screen test for Svensk Filmindustri and a small role in Kära släkten (1933). More
roles followed and she made movies in the daytime and theatre in the
evenings. Although she made a lot of movies before it, she has said
that her breakthrough came with Skolka skolan (1949). She was almost without
exception cast as a happy, care-free woman in comedies, but she has
said that this was not a problem for her, since she describes herself
as a very happy person in private. It was not until Alf Kjellin's Lustgården (1961)
she got a dramatic part as an unmarried mother. She has worked with a
lot of different directors, but two of them showed a particular
interest in her, Schamyl Bauman and Hasse Ekman. Bauman mainly in the 1930-1940s
and Ekman in the 1950s.
