Biography
Mai Zetterling was a Swedish actress and film director. Born in Västerås in 1925, she trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and made her screen debut in 1941.
She gained prominence as an actress in the 1944 film Torment, written by Ingmar Bergman, and later appeared in his Music in Darkness (1948). She worked extensively in British and American films, including Frieda (1947) and Only Two Can Play (1962). Late in her career she returned to acting as Helga Eveshim in The Witches (1990).
From the early 1960s Zetterling also directed feature films and documentaries, among them Loving Couples (1964), Night Games (1966) and The Girls (1968). She died in London in 1994.
