Maj-Britt Nilsson

Maj-Britt Nilsson (11 December 1924 – 19 December 2006) was a Swedish movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Nilsson was born in Stockholm and trained at the drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theater there. She has appeared in the following three Ingmar Bergman films: a Joy (To Joy, 1950), Sommarlek (Summer Interlude or Illicit Interlude 1951), and the Women Wait (the Secrets of the Women's Waiting-Women, 1952). She has also appeared in the English-language film, A Matter of Moral (1961), directed in Sweden by John Cromwell. Maj-Britt Nilsson died in Cannes, France, aged 82. Her death, which was not widely reported outside Sweden, it was confirmed by Jon Asp, executive editor of the online publication Last year of Face-to-Face. No cause was announced. In 1951 she married Per Gerhard, a theater director and son of Karl Gerhard, a prominent Swedish singer, who survives her.