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Gunn Wållgren, (born ''Gunnel'' ''Margaret Haraldsdotter Wållgren'' ((:vɔlɡreːn)), 16 November 1913 – 4 June 1983) was a Swedish actress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gunn Wållgren )〕 Considered one of Sweden's finest and also to date most appreciated actresses, Wållgren was famous for her fragile and sensual way of acting, her warm and rich inner soulfulness, and her never failing ability of presenting an absolute presence and naturalness on stage. Her Chekhov and Ibsen character interpretations, in particular, are considered to be unbeaten. ==Biography== Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden's second capital, Gunn Wållgren played a lot of amateur theatre in local groups in her teenage years. She knew very early that she wanted to become an actress although her father; the stern company manager Harald Wållgren, strongly disapproved: To get the theatre ideas out of her head, he even sent her overseas on a trip to Switzerland. However, the acting dreams only increased as she strolled by the coast of Lake Constance and had only gotten worse by the time she returned. Carrying a tremendous personal shyness and insecurity (which came to define and restrict her private persona all her life) she secretly applied for the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in Stockholm (in 1934) – and was admitted on first try, at age 21. Gunn Wållgren's first major role at the Royal Dramatic Theatre as ''"premiere actress"'' became the playful daughter Mildred in Eugene O'Neill's beautiful play ''Ah, Wilderness!'' (a very successful and long-running production) in 1936. Winning the critics' and the audience's heart in her part she received an immediate contract with the Royal Dramatic Theatre after her graduation from drama school in 1937. Even though she came to work at different theatres all her life, she always returned to the national stage. Some master performances by Wållgren on stage include her Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's ''Hay Fever'' in 1937, Celia in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' 1938 (directed by Alf Sjöberg), the strong portrayal of Curley's wife in the original Swedish staging of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'' in 1940, Iphigenia in Goethe's ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' 1941, her Ophelia in the classic 1942 staging of ''Hamlet'' (opposite Lars Hanson in the title role), Mary Grey/Joan of Arc in ''Joan of Lorraine'' by Maxwell Anderson in 1948, Catherine Sloper in ''The Heiress'' by Ruth and Augustus Goetz in the 1950/51 season, Indra's daughter in the Olof Molander-staging of Strindberg's ''A Dream Play'' 1955, Nina in Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' 1955, Masha in Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'' 1958, Isabella in Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure'' 1958, Nora in Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'' 1962, Gerda in Strindberg's ''Storm'' 1964, Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's ''Ghosts'' 196?, the grand portrayal of Madame Liubov Andreievna Ranevskaya in ''The Cherry Orchard'' by Chekhov in 1967, Martha Brewster in ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' in 1970, the title role of ''Agnes'' in Kent Andersson's 1972 play, Lena in Fugard's ''Boesman and Lena'' 1977; and the role of Ethel Thayer in ''Sista sommaren'' (play based on the Oscar winning film ''On Golden Pond'', starring Katharine Hepburn in the same part) in 1981. Her film debut came with ''Sonja'' in 1943, but her break-through came with ''Kvinnor i fångenskap'' the same year, where Wållgren portrayed a young prisoner on the run. Being "of the theatre" Gunn Wållgren filmed sporadically during her life. But whenever she turned to the big screen she was "The Actress". Ranked absolutely equivalent to Ingrid Bergman back in Sweden at the time, both in beauty and in talent (in Sweden even considered some notches higher than Bergman as an actress) she delivered electrifying performances in films such as ''Flickan och djävulen'' (The Girl And The Devil) (opposite Stig Järrel) 1944, ''Var sin väg'' (Each To His Own Way) 1946, ''Medan porten var stängd'' (While The Door Was Locked) 1946 (written & directed by Hasse Ekman), ''Kvinna utan ansikte'' (Woman Without A Face) 1947 (with an early script by Ingmar Bergman), ''Glasberget'' (Mountain Of Glass) 1953 (directed by Hasse Ekman) and ''Klänningen'' (The Dress) 1964 (directed by Olof Molander with script by Vilgot Sjöman), among others. Her supporting part in Gunnel Lindblom's debating drama ''Sally och friheten'' (1981) (Sally and Freedom), about a woman dealing with the painful memories and reality of an abortion, later in life rendered her Sweden's most prestigious film award, the Guldbagge Award (the Golden Beetle), for Best Actress. She was highly praised everywhere for her warm and sober portrayal of the grandmother – the immediate centre of the Ekdahl family - in Ingmar Bergman's colourful film ''Fanny och Alexander'' (1982). The role was to be her very last, as shortly after the shooting finished she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her condition deteriorated quickly and she died on 4 June 1983; ten months later Bergman's film was awarded with 4 Oscars, one for ''Best Foreign Language Film'', at the Academy Awards. Gunn Wållgren was married to 1) Erik "Hampe" Faustman (actor and film director) 1941-49 and; 2) Per-Axel Branner (stage director) 1954-75 (his death). She had two daughters (from her marriage with Faustman); Susanne and Elaine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gunn Wållgren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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