Mai Zetterling

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AKA: Mai Elizabeth Zetterling
Nationality: Swedish
Birthdate: 05/24/1925
Birthplace: Vasteras, Sweden
Death Date: 03/17/1994

biography

Mai Zetterling came to feminism gradually. In her autobiography, "All Those Tomorrows," she notes, "When the reviews of my first full-length feature movie came out, I was horrified to read that 'Mai Zetterling directs like a man.' What did that mean?" As an actress she was considered no threat. But when she decided to become a film director, she was "not the same any more in the eyes of men." It took years to realize "the change I had made was positive and, in the end, the only way."

As a teenager, Zetterling joined a children's theater club and at 16 played the lead in a play by Par Continued

Credits

Helga
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Elizabeth Gruffydd-Williams
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milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Spent some years of childhood in Australia, then settled in Stockholm
1941 
Debut as stage and screen performer at aged 16 (date approximate)
1945 
Performed with Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockholm
1946 
First leading film role in "Hets/Torment"; directed by Alf Sjoberg, written by Ingmar Bergman
1947 
Signed contract with Rank; British film acting debut in "Frieda"
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