Mimi Pollak

Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak (9 April 1903 – 11 August 1999) was a Swedish actress and theatre director.

Biography Pollak was born in Karlstad, Värmland, to Austrian-Jewish parents and was trained in the performing arts at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm from 1922 to 1924.

Pollak worked in the 1920s and 1930s as a film actress, and as a stage actress, mainly at the Blanche Theatre in Stockholm and at the Helsingborg City Theatre. She returned as an actress to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in 1942.

Pollak was married to Swedish actor Nils Lundell (1889–1943) from 1927 to 1938, and together they had a son.

Selected filmography 1991 – Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia 1986 – Amorosa 1985 – August Strindberg ett liv (TV) 1982 – The Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) 1978 – Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) 1979 – I frid och värdighet 1979 – Christopher's House 1971 – Emil i Lönneberga 1965 – Nightmare 1964 – The Dress 1956 – Rätten att älska 1955 – Mord, lilla vän 1951 – Sommarlek 1949 – Playing Truant 1949 – Bara en mor (a.k.a. Only A Mother) 1949 – The Street 1947 – Den långa vägen 1947 – Dinner for Two 1942 – Lågor i dunklet 1942 – We House Slaves 1941 – The Ghost Reporter 1940 – Med dej i mina armar 1940 One, But a Lion! 1938 – The Great Love 1926 – Sven Klingas levnadsöde 1923 – Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström 1922 – Amatörfilmen

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