Anita Wall
{{short description|Swedish actress}}
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Kerstin Anita Wall (born 11 July 1940), is a Swedish stage and film actress.
Biography
She began acting at eleven years of age at Vår teater, a children's theatre, playing Pippi Longstocking and other roles.{{Cite web |title=Anita Wall |url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=66163 |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Svensk filmdatabas | date=11 July 1940 |language=sv}}
From 1958 to 1959, she was employed by the National Swedish Touring Theatre and toured with it before joining the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, where she was one of the last group of students from 1962 to 1965 before its change of name to Statens Scenskola, together with Lars Amble, Börje Ahlstedt, Evabritt Strandberg, Per Ragnar, and others.
Since 1965, Wall has appeared in a wide range of productions at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, including Pinocchio in 1966, The Misanthrope in 1970, Miss Margarida's Way in 1976 (also on TV in 1985), Demons in 1977, Richard III in 1980 and The Servant of Two Masters in 1982. She played the title role in August Strindberg's drama Kristina in 1985. Wall made her film debut in 1959 in Raggare!.{{Cite web |title=Anita Wall |url=https://guldbaggen.se/nominering/anita-wall/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Guldbaggen 2022 |language=sv}}
At times she has been on leave from the Royal Dramatic Theatre to work on other stages; these include {{Lang|sv|Edit – Tummelisas mamma}} at Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra, the revue {{Lang|sv|Helga Vrede}} at Vasateatern and {{Lang|sv|Mitt dubbla liv}} with the National Swedish Touring Theatre.{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Nils |title=Könsrollen mogen för psykakuten |url=https://www.expressen.se/kultur/konsrollen-mogen-for-psykakuten/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Expressen |date=22 March 2013 |language=sv}}{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Tina |date=2011-09-12 |title=Anita Wall: Jag blev upptäckt av Astrid Lindgren! |url=https://www.hemtrevligt.se/hemmetsjournal/artiklar/manniskor/20110912/anita-wall-jag-blev-upptackt-av-astrid-lindgren/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Hemmets Journal |language=sv}}{{Cite web |title=Änglavakt på Riksteatern |url=http://nummer.se/anglavakt-pa-riksteatern/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |language=sv-SE}}
Wall has skillfully alternated between dramatic and humorous roles; many remember her as the maid in the 1978 TV version of the comedy {{Ill|Grabbarna i 57:an eller Musikaliska gänget|sv|Grabbarna i 57:an eller Musikaliska gänget}} with Sune Mangs and Bert-Åke Varg. In TV theatre she has acted in Chekhov's The Bear and {{Lang|sv|Svenska folkets sex och snusk}} by Allan Edwall. She played the intriguing and elegant businesswoman Elisabeth Lerwacht in the soap opera Rederiet from 1992 to 1994.
In January 2018, Wall was one of the recipients of the Guldbagge Awards for Film of the Year at the 53rd Guldbagge Awards along with Inga Landgré and Lena Söderblom.
She has been married to actor Lars Lind since 2007.
In 2013, she appeared in Crimes of Passion.
Awards
- 2001 – Litteris et Artibus{{Cite web |title=Anita Wall |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/sok-ordens--och-medaljforlaningar/2001/2021-07-09-anita-wall |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=www.kungahuset.se |language=sv}}
- 2008 – Eugene O'Neill Award{{Cite web |date=2008-10-17 |title=O'Neillpriset till Anita Wall |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/o-neillpriset-till-anita-wall/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
- 2008 – The Penguin Award from the Elsa Olenius society for exceptional work in the field of children and youth culture{{Cite web |date=2021-05-18 |title=Vår Teater |url=http://varteater.se/pingvinen.html |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=varteater.se |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518192416/http://varteater.se/pingvinen.html |archive-date=18 May 2021 |url-status=dead}}
- 2015 – Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Frida in the film Hemma{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=2015 Guldbagge Awards – Winners |url=https://www.filminstitutet.se/en/about-us/press-service/press-archive/2015/2015-guldbagge-awards---winners/ |url-status=dead |website=Swedish Film Institute |access-date=2017-07-27 |archive-date=2020-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410155545/https://www.filminstitutet.se/sv/ovrigt/404-temporary/?epi-error-internal=true&requestedUrl=/en/about-us/press-service/press-archive/2015/2015-guldbagge-awards---winners/ }}
Selected filmography
- Sten Stensson Returns (1963)
- Friends (1988)
- 1939 (1989)
- Balls (2010)
- Home (2013)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0908371}}
{{Guldbagge Award Best Supporting Actress}}
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Category:Swedish stage actresses
Category:Swedish film actresses
Category:Actresses from Stockholm
Category:Eugene O'Neill Award winners
Category:Litteris et Artibus recipients
Category:Best Supporting Actress Guldbagge Award winners
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