Susanna Ramel

Baroness Susanna Ragnarsdotter Ramel (née Östberg; previously Gillgren; 1 April 1920 – 4 April 2020) was a Swedish dancer, singer, actress, and movement therapist. Ramel was the daughter of the architect Ragnar Östberg and Carin Thiel; her maternal grandfather was the financier and art collector Ernest Thiel.

Biography She was born as Susanna Ragnarsdotter Östberg on April 1, 1920 in Stockholm to Ragnar Östberg and Carin Thiel. Both her parents had been married before and had divorced their spouses.

She started studying ballet as a young girl, and she appeared as a dancer in several Swedish films in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in variety shows and revues.

She was married twice; first in 1941 to Sven Arne Gillgren with whom she had two daughters, Carina (born 1943) and Marianne (born 1945). They divorced in 1949, and in the same year she married Povel Ramel, who had first noticed her when she was a dancer at Södra Teatern.

Ramel turned 100 on 1 April 2020, and died three days later.

Filmography 1939 – Skanör-Falsterbo 1939 – Kadettkamrater 1940 – Blyge Anton 1941 – Den ljusnande framtid 1942 – Livet på en pinne 1986 – Affären Ramel (TV-series)