Ingeborg Viola Öllegård Wellton-Hell (née Wellton; 18 April 1932 – 26 June 1991) was a Swedish actress. She was married to actor

Erik Hell Erik Hell (11 August 1911 – 11 March 1973) was a Swedish actor. Hell was born in Kalliokoski, Finland, to a Norwegian father and a Finnish mother. He moved to Sweden with his family in 1918 during the Finnish Civil War. He married the actre ...

from 1960 until his death in 1973. She studied at the

Royal Dramatic Training Academy The Royal Dramatic Training Academy (, also known as ''Dramatens elevskola''), was the acting school of Sweden's national stage, the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and for many years (1787–1964) seen as the foremost theatre school and drama education ...

from 1950–53 and was engaged at the

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre (, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The theatre has been at its present lo ...

until 1956. Thereafter she was engaged at many theatres, among them Östgötateatern and the

National Swedish Touring Theatre The National Swedish Touring Theatre () is the largest touring theatre company in Sweden. It serves as Sweden's national stage on tour. The company is owned and funded by 240 local economic associations spread throughout the country. Their mai ...

. As a film actor she is well known as Tommy and Annika's mother in the 1969 TV series ''Pippi Longstocking.''

Selected filmography

* ''Hammarforsens brus'' (1948) * ''Folket i fält'' (1953) * ''

A Night in the Archipelago ''A Night in the Archipelago'' (Swedish: ''En skärgårdsnatt'') is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Bengt Logardt and starring Ingrid Thulin, Bengt Blomgren and Öllegård Wellton.Qvist & Von Bagh p.147 It was shot at the Centrumateljéern ...

'' (1953) *'' Unmarried Mothers'' * '' The Mistress'' (1962) * ''

I Am Curious (Yellow) ''I Am Curious (Yellow)'' (, ) is a 1967 Swedish erotic drama film written and directed by Vilgot Sjöman, starring Sjöman and Lena Nyman. It is a companion film to 1968's '' I Am Curious (Blue)''; the two were initially intended to be one ...

'' (1967) * ''

Pippi Longstocking Pippi Longstocking () is the fictional main character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story when she was off school. Pippi is ...

'' (1969–1973, TV and film) * '' August Strindberg: ett liv'' (1985, TV)

External links

Öllegård Wellton on Internet Movie DatabaseÖllegård Wellton on Swedish Film Database
1932 births 1991 deaths Actresses from Stockholm 20th-century Swedish actresses Place of death missing {{Sweden-screen-actor-stub