Constantly considered to be one of the greatest actresses in modern Swedish theater history, Gunn Wållgren is mostly known for her many roles in plays by Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov, and internationally; for her wonderful part as the grandmother in director Ingmar Bergman's _Fanny och Alexander , which sadly became her last work as an actress. Gunn Wållgren was later in the year 1982 diagnosed with terminal cancer and past away in her home at Öregrundsgatan in Stockholm on the 4th of June 1983, at age 69, surrounded by her family.
