Ester Julin
{{Short description|Swedish actress, director and screenwriter (1885–1931)}}
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Ester Sofia Margareta Julin (19 January 1885{{Snd}}29 April 1931) was a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter.
Biography
Ester Julin was born on 19 January 1885 in Gysinge, Sweden. In the early 1890s her family moved to Uppsala, and later settled in Stockholm. She approached different theater companies, looking for opportunities. {{cite book |last= Nelmes |first= Jill|author-link= |date= 29 September 2015|title= Women Screenwriters: An International Guide| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-2ekCgAAQBAJ|access-date= 21 June 2022|location= New York City| publisher= Springer| page=NA| isbn= 978-1-137-31237-2}}
In the beginning of her theatrical career, she acted in various roles, predominantly as a comedian. Afterwards, she came into contact with renowned film directors like Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, and worked with them in number of popular plays and movies.{{cite book |last= Waldman |first= Harry|author-link= |date= 1991|title= Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0lYeAAAAMAAJ|access-date= 21 June 2022|location= Jefferson, North Carolina | publisher= McFarland & Company| page=234| isbn= 978-0-899-50601-2}}{{cite book |last= Nowell-Smith |first= Geoffrey |author-link= |date= 17 October 1996|title= The Oxford History of World Cinema| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8wZREAAAQBAJ|access-date= 21 June 2022|location= Oxford | publisher= Oxford University Press| page=156| isbn= 978-0-191-51818-8}}{{cite journal |last1= Florin |first1= Bo |title= From Sjöström to Seastrom|url= https://www.jstor.org/stable//pdf/3815319.pdf|journal= Film History|year= 1999 |volume=11|issue=2 |pages=154–163|doi= |access-date= 21 June 2022}}
She was a "highly respected professional in the early 1920s", and nicked named as "Silent-Movie Queen from Gysinge".
She died in Stockholm on 29 April 1931.
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Category:Swedish women screenwriters
Category:Swedish women film directors
Category:Swedish stage actresses
Category:Swedish silent film actresses
Category:20th-century Swedish actresses