Inga Tidblad

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Inga Tidblad
Tidblad in the 1930s
Born
Inga Sofia Tidblad

(1901-05-29)29 May 1901
Stockholm, Sweden
Died12 September 1975(1975-09-12) (aged 74)
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationActress
Years active1921–1974
Spouses
Ragnar Billberg
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(m. 1923; died 1930)​
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(m. 1931)​
Children3, including Meg Westergren

Inga Sofia Tidblad (29 May 1901 – 12 September 1975) was a Swedish actress. She was one of the most praised actresses in Swedish theatre.

Biography

Tidblad grew up in Stockholm as daughter to engineer Otto Tidblad and the formerly Helga Krumlinde. She was a student at the

Shakespeare's The Tempest, where director Olof Molander had hand-picked her for the part, early recognizing her talent. After her graduation from drama school she worked at the Swedish Theatre, where she had her big star breakthrough in Sweden as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Schanke in the title role, in 1924. She remained in the theatre's ensemble until its tragic burn-down in 1925.[citation needed
]

Most notable for her many female leads in Shakespeare and Strindberg plays, star performances by Tidblad on stage include her Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Billie Moore in Broadway, the Angel in Cenodoxus, Aude in Graven under triumfbågen, Anna Boleyn in

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956), in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables at Vasateatern (1958–59) and as Queen Christina in August Strindberg
's play Kristina in 1961.

During her career Tidblad performed at Sweden's prime theatres; after her work at the Swedish Theatre she worked at the Vasateatern (1925–26), the Oscarsteatern (1926–32) and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1932 to 1963 when she retired from stage. After her retirement she made only a few guest appearances on stage and film.[citation needed]

She starred in some notable early Swedish silent films, including Norrtullsligan (1923), Mälarpirater (1923), Farbror Frans (1926) and Svarte Rudolf (1928). She made her film debut in Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström in 1923. In 1930 she starred in the lead, opposite

Guldbagge Award
(the finest Swedish film award, the Golden Beetle) for Best Actress, shortly before her death.

She was also the voice of Pinocchio in the Swedish dubbing of

Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her role in Pistol.[1]

She was married first to actor Ragnar Billberg (1923–1930) and then to actor Håkan Westergren from 1931 (to her death in 1975), with whom she had daughter Meg Westergren and son Claes-Håkan Westergren, also actors.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Pistolen (1973)". The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

Further reading

External links

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