| Salma El-Sharkawy |
A Swedish actress, born in Gothenburg, Sweden. She began studying acting at the Pickwick Club, then joined the Performing Arts School in Gothenburg in 1950. Her screen debut was in Love (1952), then director Ingmar Bergman discovered her in 1954 and sent her to work in the Malmö City Theater. She also participated in many of Ingmar's films, including The Virgin Spring (1960) and The Silence (1963), and worked in theatrical television between 1959 and 1961. She also joined the Royal Theater in 1968 and obtained main roles in plays by prominent writers. She worked as an assistant theater director to Ingmar Bergman in several plays. Then, she resigned from her theatrical work in the 1970s, reestablished their collaboration in the play Hamlet in 1986, and went on to direct a series of films on her own.
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