| First Name |
Johanna
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| Middle Name |
Maria Ellinor
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| Last Name |
Sällström
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| Maiden Name |
Berglund
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| Full Name at Birth |
Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund
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| Birthday |
30th December, 1974
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| Birthplace |
Stockholm, Sweden
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| Died |
13th February, 2007
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| Place of Death |
Malmö, Sweden
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| Cause of Death |
Barbiturate overdose (suicide by)
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| Buried |
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
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| Height |
5' 5¼" (166 cm)
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| Build |
Voluptuous
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| Eye Color |
Grey
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| Hair Color |
Brown - Light
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| Distinctive Feature |
Made her stage debut in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age of 15...., Studied acting at the Södra Latins in Stockholm...., Survived the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake during a holiday in Thailand (26 December 2004). It put the deep scars in her...., Johanna and her daughter's Talulah's father Albin divorced less than a year after she was born...., Her daughter, "Talulah", got her name from the movie, Bugsy Malone (1976)...., Had one daughter, Talulah Sällström, who committed suicide a week before her 13rd birthday, 7 years after her mother's suicide...., Now, I am thinking of her little daughter who she loved above all else. She said that the girl was the best thing that happened to her." her Grandmother., Johanna Sällström (born Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund in Stockholm) worked as an actress for more than 15 years before committing suicide at her home in Malmö on 13 February 2007...., Sällström was found dead in her home in Malmö shortly before midnight on 13 February 2007. She had recently been released from a psychiatric unit where she had been receiving treatment for depression...., The cause of her death was suicide, believed to have been triggered by the 2004 Tsunami...., After her death Henning Mankell was unable to write the last two novels of his projected Linda Wallander trilogy as his grief and guilt were too great...., The 2004 Tsunami was only the final, devastating precipitous psychological decline she suffered in a life-long battle with depression...., She had stated in an interview in 2006 with the editor of the magazine Tove, "I always thought I would be dead at the age of thirty"...., Already battered and weakened by years of mental illness, the tsunami shattered her fragile psyche, culminating in her overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 32....
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
Swedish
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| University |
The Södra Latins in Stockholm (Acting)
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| Occupation Text |
Actress
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| Occupation |
Actress
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| Claim to Fame |
Sandra in Beneath the Surface (1997) & police agent Linda Wallander in Wallander (2005)
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| Year(s) Active |
1993–2006............................(CAREER), 1998-1998 (winner: Best Actress, Guldbagge Awards, "Under ytan" (1997)), 1993-2002 (actress: 9 x films), 2006-2006 (actress: 1 x video film), 1994-2006 (actress: 9 x tv series), 2001-2001 (actress: 1 x tv film), 1998-1999 (actress: 2 x tv mini-series), 1989-1989 (stage debut at age 15, in "A Midsummer night's dream"), 1996-1997 (breakthrough tv role: TV series "Tre Kronor" (1996-97)), 2000-2000 (wife: of Albin Sällström), 2001-2001 (mother: of Talulah Sällström), 1993–2006
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| Pets |
Albin Sällström (ex husband), Talulah Sällström (daughter), Inga-Lill sällström (grandmother), Roy Sällström (father)
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| Favorite Movies |
Bugsy Malone
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| Favorite Places |
Koh Lanta, Thailand, Malmö, Sweden
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Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund-Sällström (30 December 1974 – 13 February 2007) was a Swedish actress, best known for her portrayal of Linda Wallander in Wallander. She worked as an actress for more than 15 years, before her death in 2007.
