Marie Elisabet Richardson (born 6 June 1959) is a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from 1982 to 1985 and has been employed by 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 ...

in Stockholm ever since. Richardson has been very active in films and television production as well as on stage for 30 years. She has two children with Jakob Eklund, also an actor. In 2008 Richardson played Linda Jacobsson, the psychologically tormented wife of an obsessive violent politician (played by Reine Brynolfsson), in the Swedish mini-series ''The Regicide''. The series was based on a novel written by Danish author Hanne Vibeke Holst. In December 2014, Richardson appeared in the

Swedish television Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television aktiebolag, Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksd ...

(SVT) series Blue Eyes and on stage at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in Mirja Unga's play Johanna, a modern take on the Joan of Arc theme. In 2017 and 2019 she was the lead character in the SVT series Before We Die.

Filmography

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Marie Richardson website. List of films, tv and theatre work, links for tv and radio interviews, etc.
1959 births Living people People from Ljusdal Municipality Swedish film actresses Swedish stage actresses Litteris et Artibus recipients Actresses from Gävleborg County {{Sweden-screen-actor-stub