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Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough as an actress came in the 1944 film Torment written for her [8] by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl.
Mai Zetterling. Actress: The Witches. Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens.
Mai Zetterling. Actress: The Witches. Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens.
May 20, 2024 · Mai Zetterling (born May 24, 1925, Västerås, Sweden—died March 15?, 1994, London, England) was a Swedish actress, director, and novelist. As a director, she imbued her work with a passionate feminism.
A fearlessly transgressive, long-overlooked pioneer of feminist cinema, the Swedish actor turned director Mai Zetterling ruffled the feathers of the patriarchal establishment with a string of bracingly modern, sexually frank, and politically incendiary films focused on female agency and the turbulent state of twentieth-century Europe.
Zetterling, Mai (1925–1994) Swedish stage and screen actress, film director and author who made her most important contribution to Swedish cinema as an advocate of women's rights and a critic of contemporary society. Born Mai Elisabeth Zetterling in Vasterås, Sweden, on May 24, 1925; died of cancer at her home in London, England, on March 15 ...
Mar 21, 1994 · Swedish-born actress and director Mai Zetterling died in London Thursday from cancer, her theatrical agent said. She was 68. The agent, Joyce Edwards, said Zetterling died in a London hospital.
