Britta Holmberg(1921-2004)
- Actress
Swedish actress and singer. Trained at
Willy Koblanck's drama school in 1940s
and worked at many of the private theatres in Stockholm in her career.
During her marriage to actor and composer
Stig Olin, she recorded many hits together
with him in the 1950s, including "Resan till Paris" and "På söndag".
The Olin family, with children Lena Olin and
Mats Olin, also appeared in Swedish radio with
their own show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Later in life, in the
1970s, she played the popular part of "Pilgrenskan" in the two Swedish
childrens film classics
Anderssonskans Kalle (1972)
and
Anderssonskans Kalle i busform (1973).
In the 1980s, she worked closely with film director
Ingmar Bergman at The Royal Dramatic
Theatre in Stockholm as prompter for many of his theatre productions,
including "King Lear" (1984), "Miss Julie" (1985) and "Hamlet" (1986)".
