Ellen Hartman (born Helena Elisabeth Florentina Hedlund, 31 July 1860 in

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– 4 January 1945 in Stockholm), was a Swedish actress. She was one of the greatest stars of the stage in Stockholm during the 1880s and 1890s. She was awarded the

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Biography

Ellen Hartman made her debut on the stage in 1877. She was a student of the

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in Stockholm 1878–1880. Among her teachers were

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. She was employed at the

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in 1880–1890, from 1886 as a premier actress. She made a scandal when she eloped from her contract to Paris with her fiancé Gustaf Reinhold von Rosen. After this, she was active in Paris, and took part in the tour of Coquelin to

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and

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. In 1893–94, she was employed at Théâtre Vaudeville in Paris. She was active at the Royal Dramatic Theatre again in 1894–98. In 1924, she participated in the film ''

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'', starring

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and

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, in which Hartman portrayed Märta Dohna. She is sometimes credited as ''Ellen Hartman-Cederström''. Ellen Hartman 1890

Personal life and death

She was married to the actor Victor Laurentius Hartman in 1881, and to Baron Carl Gustaf Bror Cederström in 1898. She died on January 5, 1945.

Filmography

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'' (1924)

References

*Lindenbaum, Arne: ''Okrönta härskarinnor på Stockholms slott'', C.E. Fritzes Bokförlags Aktiebolag Zetterlund & Thelanders Boktryckeri AB, Stockholm 1952 (250 s).
Anbytarforum - Aktrisen Ellen Hartman-Cederström född 1860
(del 1 - Projekt Runeberg) * ttp://runeberg.org/sbh/a0179.html I:179 Svenskt Biografiskt handlexikon - 9. Cederström, Helena Elisabeth Florentina (Ellen Hartman)(del 2 - Projekt Runeberg)

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