Birgitta Margaretha Ulfsson (1 July 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a Finnish actress and theater director. She was a versatile actor and a recognized pioneer of avant-garde theater in Finland.Ulfsson, Birgitta (1928–)
in ''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland'' . She started her career at

Svenska Teatern The Swedish Theatre () is a Swedish-language theatre in Helsinki, Finland, and is located at the Erottaja () square, at the end of Esplanadi (). It was the first national stage of Finland. History The first theatre in Helsinki, '' Engels Tea ...

, a theater in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

for

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theater productions. She created roles in both Finnish and Swedish, and from the early 1980s, she worked regularly also in Sweden. In Sweden, she was best known as "Muminmamma" in the TV series about Mumintrollet and for her role in ''

Rederiet ''Rederiet'' (''High Seas'' or ''The Shipping Company'') was a (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors. The 45-minute epis ...

''.

Personal life

From 1952 to 1984, she was married to actor

Lasse Pöysti Lasse Erik Pöysti (; 24 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer. He was born in Sortavala. Biography Pöysti began his career as a child actor, becoming known to the Finnish public as Olli Su ...

. From 2007 until her death in 2017, she was married to

Iwar Wiklander Iwar Wiklander (born 30 May 1939) is a Swedish actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1963. Selected filmography References External links * 1939 births Living people Swedish male film actors Male actors from Gothen ...

. The couple resided in

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, Sweden. Her son Erik Pöysti and granddaughter Alma Pöysti are both actors in

Selected filmography

*1953 — ''

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'' *1983 – ''

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon ''A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon'' () is a 1983 Swedish drama film about the life of the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, written by Agneta Pleijel and directed by Lennart Hjulström. Gunilla Nyroos won the award for Best Actress ...

'' *1986 – ''

The Serpent's Way ''The Serpent's Way'' () is a 1986 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the novel The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival - 404 link ...

'' *1992 – ''

Sunday's Children ''Sunday's Children'' () is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Daniel Bergman and written by Ingmar Bergman. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Cinematography ( Tony Forsberg) and Thommy Berggren was nominated fo ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ulfsson, Birgitta 1928 births 2017 deaths Finnish film actresses Actresses from Helsinki Finnish stage actresses 20th-century Finnish actresses Finnish theatre directors Finnish women theatre directors Finnish expatriates in Sweden Swedish-speaking Finns