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- Birth nameMargaretha Knutsdotter Krook
- Margaretha Krook was a Swedish stage and screen actress. In 1948, she was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Training Academy[ and made her student debut that same year as Bettsy in "David Copperfield". After graduating in 1951, she was engaged at the city theatres in Norrköping 1952-1954, Helsingborg 1955-1957 and Gothenburg 1958-1959. In the early 1960s she was part of the National TV theatre ensemble. In 1962 she returned to the Royal Dramatic Theatre and remained there until she made her last appearance in "Lyckans dar/Happy Days", in 1999. Margaretha Krook participated in over 100 theatre productions and more than 50 feature films and TV-productions.
- IMDb mini biography by: SKBL
- SpouseStig Hammar(1956 - 1981) (divorced, 1 child)
- Had an extremely good memory: she only had to read a manuscript once to remember it.
- A statue of her is erected outside Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater - in the corner where she often stood smoking.
- The last four New-years-eves of her life, she declamed the poem "Nyårsklockorna" at Skansen in Stockholm.
- After her death, a journalist wrote: "The only role that she didn't really managed to play was the role as herself".
- In 1998, the Swedish Union for Theatre, Artists and Media awarded her their Gold Medal for her "exceptional artistic accomplishments".
- I'm quite a troublesome person.
- "It wasn't worth it." (About her life and career as an actress.)
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