Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 â€" 2 January 1953) was a
Swedish stage and film actress.Born in 1871 in Stockholm, Borgström
made her film debut in 1912. She starred in leading parts in Victor
Sjöström's silent films Ingeborg Holm (aka Margaret Day) (1913) and
Körkarlen (aka The Phantom Carriage/The Stroke of Midnight/Thy Soul
Shall Bear Witness) in 1921. Borgström started out to be a dancer and
trained at the old Royal Theatre's ballet school in Stockholm 1880-87.
Later she decided to turn to the theatre instead and studied drama.
Her professional debut on stage came in 1890 at one of Albert Ranft's
theatres. She was an actress of Sweden's national stage, the Royal
Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten), between 1900â€"1912 and 1920-1938.She
retired from the stage in 1938 because of stage fright and returned to
film. She appeared in several supporting parts in Swedish films in the
1930s-1950s, for example in Ingmar Bergman's early 1948 film Music in
Darkness, in the thriller Ett brott (A Crime) (1940) and in Kejsarn av
Portugallien (The Emperor of Portugallia) (1944), based on the novel
by Selma Lagerlöf, and in a pair of films by Hasse Ekman such as
Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) (1945) and Flickan från tredje
raden (The Girl from the Third Row) (1949). Borgström was also a
teacher in the performing arts at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting
school; Dramatens elevskola, in the 1930s-1940s. Altogether she made
some 80 parts on film.
Swedish stage and film actress.Born in 1871 in Stockholm, Borgström
made her film debut in 1912. She starred in leading parts in Victor
Sjöström's silent films Ingeborg Holm (aka Margaret Day) (1913) and
Körkarlen (aka The Phantom Carriage/The Stroke of Midnight/Thy Soul
Shall Bear Witness) in 1921. Borgström started out to be a dancer and
trained at the old Royal Theatre's ballet school in Stockholm 1880-87.
Later she decided to turn to the theatre instead and studied drama.
Her professional debut on stage came in 1890 at one of Albert Ranft's
theatres. She was an actress of Sweden's national stage, the Royal
Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten), between 1900â€"1912 and 1920-1938.She
retired from the stage in 1938 because of stage fright and returned to
film. She appeared in several supporting parts in Swedish films in the
1930s-1950s, for example in Ingmar Bergman's early 1948 film Music in
Darkness, in the thriller Ett brott (A Crime) (1940) and in Kejsarn av
Portugallien (The Emperor of Portugallia) (1944), based on the novel
by Selma Lagerlöf, and in a pair of films by Hasse Ekman such as
Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) (1945) and Flickan från tredje
raden (The Girl from the Third Row) (1949). Borgström was also a
teacher in the performing arts at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting
school; Dramatens elevskola, in the 1930s-1940s. Altogether she made
some 80 parts on film.
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