Anita Wall

Kerstin Anita Wall (born 11 July 1940), is a Swedish stage and film actress.

Biography She began acting at eleven years of age at Vår teater, a children's theatre, playing Pippi Longstocking and other roles.

From 1958 to 1959, she was employed by the National Swedish Touring Theatre and toured with it before joining the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, where she was one of the last group of students from 1962 to 1965 before its change of name to Statens Scenskola, together with Lars Amble, Börje Ahlstedt, Evabritt Strandberg, Per Ragnar, and others.

Since 1965, Wall has appeared in a wide range of productions at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, including Pinocchio in 1966, The Misanthrope in 1970, Miss Margarida's Way in 1976 (also on TV in 1985), Demons in 1977, Richard III in 1980 and The Servant of Two Masters in 1982. She played the title role in August Strindberg's drama Kristina in 1985. Wall made her film debut in 1959 in Raggare!.

At times she has been on leave from the Royal Dramatic Theatre to work on other stages; these include at Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra, the revue at Vasateatern and with the National Swedish Touring Theatre.

Wall has skillfully alternated between dramatic and humorous roles; many remember her as the maid in the 1978 TV version of the comedy with Sune Mangs and Bert-Åke Varg. In TV theatre she has acted in Chekhov's The Bear and by Allan Edwall. She played the intriguing and elegant businesswoman Elisabeth Lerwacht in the soap opera Rederiet from 1992 to 1994. 2008 – Eugene O'Neill Award 2008 – The Penguin Award from the Elsa Olenius society for exceptional work in the field of children and youth culture 2015 – Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Frida in the film Hemma

Selected filmography Sten Stensson Returns (1963) Friends (1988) 1939 (1989) Balls (2010) Home (2013)