- Staffan Westerberg was born on June 11, 1934 in Luleå, Sweden. He was an actor and director, known for Den lilla teatern spelar för dig (1973), Lille Luj och Änglaljus i strumpornas hus (1983) and Den gamle fortæller: Tommelise (1977). He died on June 23, 2026 in Sweden.
- He himself started acting early. Even as a child, he was interested in theater and as soon as he could, after graduating, he left Luleå and moved to Stockholm, where he became a boarder with a family in the Old Town.
- In the late 1950s, he attended the Norrköping-Linköping City Theater's student school.
- The son of a manager at LKAB, which is why the family lived in a large manager's villa with servants. His mother Elisabeth was a housewife.
- In the late 1960s, he worked at the Riksteatern, where he wrote and directed plays, often aimed at the very youngest audience.
- Even as a child, Westerberg was interested in theater and acting; using materials such as cardboard boxes, flashlights, and his own scenery, he created his own theater where he staged various plays and operettas he had seen at Riksteatern.
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