Meg Westergren

Meg Westergren
Meg Westergren in Oslo, 1951
Born	Elsa Margareta Westergren (1932-05-16) 16 May 1932 (age 84) , Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1951–present
Spouse(s)	Tore Wretman (m. 1953–71) Carl Magnus Nyström (m. 1989)
Children	Fredrik Wretman Malin Wretman Krüll
Parent(s)	Håkan Westergren Inga Tidblad

Elsa Margareta "Meg" Westergren (born 16 May 1932) is a Swedish actress from Nockeby, Bromma, in . Her parents were both actors and she made her acting debut in the 1951 film Leva på 'Hoppet'. She studied at the The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school from 1951 to 1954, and became a successful comedic theater actress afterwards. Westergren has been married twice and has one son.

Westergren is the daughter of famous actors Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad. They moved to Nockeby, , in 1931 and got married the same year. Westergren was born the following year on 16 May 1932. As a child, Westergren was a big admirer of her mother who was one of the biggest stars in Swedish theater. Westergren was raised with a nanny and has later said she wishes her busy parents would have spent more time with her while growing up.

Westergren was originally not planning on becoming an actress. Instead she decided to become a fashion designer and traveled to Paris to study. In between lessons at the designer institute, she walked the runway as a model at the fashion house Carven.

While living in Paris Westergren received a call from Swedish director Göran Gentele, who offered her a role in his 1951 comedy film Leva på 'Hoppet'. She accepted the offer to appear in the film, which also starred a number of other relatively unknown persons at the time, including Ingrid Thulin, Per Oscarsson, Gunvor Pontén, and Jarl Kulle. Westergren returned to Sweden to shoot Leva på 'Hoppet', which became her acting debut. The film sparked her interest in acting, and when she decided to study again she sent in applications to both the fashion university college Beckmans designhögskola and the acting school Dramatens elevskola (English: The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school). The auditions for Dramatens elevskola were held earlier than those for Beckmans designhögskola, and Westergren was admitted to the school after only one audition.