Mai Zetterling
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| Born |
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling 24 May 1925 Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden |
| Died | 17 March 1994 (aged 68) London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress, film director |
| Years active | 1941–1993 |
| Spouse(s) |
Tutte Lemkow (1944–1953) (divorced) David Hughes (1958–1979) (divorced) |
| Children | Dr. Louis Lemkow-Zetterling Etienne Lemkow-Zetterling |
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (Swedish pronunciation: [mâjː sɛ̂tːəɭɪ̂ŋ]; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director.
Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working-class family. She started her career as an actress at the age of 17 at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, appearing in war-era films.
Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film Torment written by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's Frieda (1947) playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.
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