Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens. Following her debut in _Lasse-Maja to save her grandson from her coven of hags. Mai died of cancer in 1994.
Autobiography 1985: "All Those Tomorrows"
Has a son, Dr. Louis Lemkow-Zetterling who is a professor in Barcelona, Spain. She and Tutte Lemkow also have a daughter, Etienne.
(1929-1932) Emigrated to Australia with her mother and stepfather.
Upon her death, she was cremated and ashes were scattered at her home in Mont Blanc, France.
Had a love affair and lived with actor Tyrone Power for two years. His chapter in her book is called "Tyrone the Magnificent.".
I have been a child, a girl, a party doll, a mistress, a wife, a mother,a professional woman, a virgin and a grandmother. I have been a woman,for more than fifty years and yet I have never been able to discover,precisely what it is I am, how real I am. I ask myself - perhaps my,femaleness is just a human disease.