Eva Dahlbeck
Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Brink of Life. Dahlbeck retired from acting in 1970 and became an author.
Biography
Eva Dahlbeck was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs near Stockholm. She attended the prestigious Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1941 to 1944, and acted on the Theatre's stage from 1944 to 1964. She made her film debut in the role of Botilla in Ride Tonight!.File:Kvinnodröm.jpg|thumb|left|Dahlbeck and Ulf Palme in the film Dreams
Among her roles in Swedish films were the shrewd celebrity reporter Vivi in Love Goes Up and Down, the working-class mother Rya-Rya in the drama Only a Mother ; Mrs. Larsson, the warmhearted mother of seven in the popular children's film Kastrullresan, and the young primary school teacher in Gustaf Molander's Trots, a film with a screenplay by Vilgot Sjöman. In the mid-1950s Dahlbeck was one of Sweden's most popular and successful actresses. She became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number of Ingmar Bergman's films, in particular his comedies Secrets of Women, A [Lesson in Love (1954 film)|A Lesson in Love] and Smiles of a Summer Night. In 1965 she won the award for Guldbagge [Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress] at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for her role in the film The Cats. She also had a role in Agnès Varda's Les Créatures in 1966.
In the 1960s, Dahlbeck moved away from acting as she started to write. She retired from the stage in 1964 and made her final appearance on screen in the Danish film Tintomara. She published several novels and poems in her native Sweden, and wrote the screenplay for Arne Mattsson's dark film Yngsjömordet in 1966.
Dahlbeck married Sven Lampell, an air force officer, in 1944. The couple had two children. She lived out the last years of her life in Hässelby Villastad, Stockholm, where she died at age 87.
Awards
- 1961 - Eugene O'Neill Award for her stage work.
Filmography
Only a Woman as Guest at the masquerade The [Talk of the Town (1941 film)|The Talk of the Town] as Dancing woman Ride Tonight! as BotillaCount Only the Happy Moments as HedvigOss tjuvar emellan eller En burk ananas as Astrid Black Roses as Per Bergström's wifeThe [Serious Game (film)|The Serious Game] as Dagmar RandelBrita in the Merchant's House as BritaLove Goes Up and Down as Vivi BoströmMeeting in the Night as MaritThe Key and the Ring as Eva BergTwo Women as Sonja BergmanThe People of Simlang Valley as Ingrid FolkessonEach to His Own Way as Karin BrofeldtLars Hård as Inga- Girl from the Mountain Village as IsaEva as SusanneWoman in White as Solveig RygårdOnly a Mother as Maria, aka Rya-RyaFiancée for Hire as Margit BergJack of Hearts as Gun LovénThe Saucepan Journey as Mamma LarssonIn the Arms of the Sea as LucieSköna Helena as HelenaCarson City as GunU-Boat 39 as Maria FribergDefiance as TeacherSecrets of Women as KarinBarabbas as The MotherThe Shadow as VivianneThe Village as Wanda PiwonskaHouse of Women as IsaThe Chieftain of Göinge as Kristina Ulfstand
- Foreign Intrigue as Barbara Vale / Nina Richter / Hilda / Nurse
- A Lesson [in Love (1954 film)|A Lesson in Love] as Marianne ErnemanVoyage in the Night as Birgitta LundbergDreams as SusanneParadise as Ulla KarlssonSmiles of a Summer Night as Desiree ArmfeldtTarps Elin as Elin TarpLast Pair Out as Susanna DahlinEncounters in the Twilight as Irma SköldSummer Place Wanted as Ingeborg DahlströmBrink of Life as Stina AnderssonA Matter of Morals as Eva WaldermanKärlekens decimaler as AstridTre önskningar as Adèle LintonParadise (1962 film)|Ticket to Paradise] as Rita CarolThe Counterfeit Traitor as Ingrid EricksonAll These Women as AdelaideLoving Couples as Marta AlleusMorianna as Anna Vade
- The Cats as Marta Alleus
- Les Créatures as Michele QuellecWoman of Darkness as ScreenwriterHagbard and Signe as The QueenPeople Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart as Devah SørensenMarkurells i Wadköping as Fru MarkurellA Day at the Beach as Cafe Proprietress
- Tintomara as Baroness
Novels
- 1964: Hem till kaos
- 1965: Sista spegeln: preludier
- 1966: Den sjunde natten: detaljer
- 1967: Domen
- 1972: Med seende ögon
- 1974: Hjärtslagen
- 1976: Saknadens dal
- 1979: Maktspråket
- 1980: I våra tomma rum
- 1988: Serveto och den eviga elden
- 1991: Vapenhandlarens död: ett reportage från insidan
- 1996: På kärlekens villkor: en vandring i ett laglöst land
- 1999: ''Sökarljus''