Britta Holmberg

Swedish actress and singer. Trained at Willy Koblanck's drama school in 1940s and worked at many of the private theatres in Stockholm in her career. During her marriage to actor and composer Stig Olin, she recorded many hits together with him in the 1950s, including "Resan till Paris" and "På söndag". The Olin family, with children Lena Olin and Mats Olin, also appeared in Swedish radio with their own show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Later in life, in the 1970s, she played the popular part of "Pilgrenskan" in the two Swedish childrens film classics Anderssonskans Kalle (1972) and Anderssonskans Kalle i busform (1973). In the 1980s, she worked closely with film director Ingmar Bergman at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm as prompter for many of his theatre productions, including "King Lear" (1984), "Miss Julie" (1985) and "Hamlet" (1986)".