Ann Petrén

Ann Louise Maria Petrén (born 25 May 1954) is a Swedish actress. She is known for her performances in and (2011); for each she received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She has also starred in multiple stage productions, having been a member of the permanent ensemble at Stockholm City Theatre since 1988.

Early life and education Ann Louise Maria Petrén was born 25 May 1954 in Västerås to and Maud Jacobsson. Her father was an executive at . She was educated at Malmö Theatre Academy from 1976–1979. Her first role was in a production of Staffan Göthe's A Stuffed Dog.

She played a long-suffering wife of an alcoholic womanizer in the 1992 coming-of-age film Night of the Orangutan, also known as My Great Big Daddy.

In 2003, she played Anita in . Stephen Holden wrote of her performance for The New York Times, "Petrén's avenging demon, in particular, is as frightening a surrogate for every wife who has been dumped for a younger woman as the screen has produced." For this role, she received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress, the Jarl Kulle Scholarship, and the Swedish Theatre Critics Association Award.

Petrén starred in Björn Runge's 2011 film . She played Jonna, a widowed driving instructor. The film premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. She received her second Guldbagge Award for Best Actress and the for Happy End.

She had a supporting role in Border, a 2018 fantasy-thriller film directed by Ali Abbasis.

She starred opposite in Björn Runge's play Jag är en annan nu . Her performance received praise in Dagens Nyheter and Västerbottens-Kuriren.

In 2022, she played a domineering drama teacher in a production of Staffan Valdemar Holm's Månen och de andra planeterna at Stockholm City Theatre. Later that year she also acted in Lars Norén's ''Temps Morte.

Filmography

Film