Linda Olsson (actress)

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Linda Olsson as Jane Smart in the musical Witches of Eastwick at Cirkus in 2019

Linda Olsson, (born 8 August 1979 in Lindö, Norrköping Municipality, Sweden) is a Swedish musical artist, dancer and actress.

Biography[edit]

Linda Olsson grew up in a doctors family in Lindö, Norrköping Municipality, Sweden and studied at Långtorpsskolan and later at Navestadsskolans music classes and later she studied music at De Geergymnasiet. She has also studied dance at Lagers dansinstitut in Norrköping. She has won gold in latinamerican dance and Swedish championship silver in bug dancing. She has also studied ballet at Balettakademin in Gothenburg.[1]

She got her big breakthrough as the lead role in the musical Mary Poppins in 2008 at Göteborgsoperan.[2] She has also acted in Grease, A Chorus Line and Kiss Me Kate. She acted in Rivierans guldgossar at Cirkus in Stockholm in 2007. And in The Producers - Det våras för Hitler in 2010 at Galateatern. She has as well appeared in musicals Sweeney Todd and Chicago.[2] She also had a role in the very first ABBA music fest Mamma Mia! The Party at Tyrol in 2016.[3] Olsson played the lead role as Dale Tremont in Top Hat at Malmö Opera in 2015.[4]

Since 2017, she is married to singer Tommy Nilsson.[5] They have a son.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Morgondagens lovande stjärnor". Expressen. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b Hon gräver på djupet i dubbel musikalkaraktär Archived 2017-05-30 at the Wayback Machine skd.se Retrieved 27 March 2020
  3. ^ "Här showar Silvia med Mamma Mia-artisterna". Expressen. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Linda Olsson". Malmö Opera. 13 October 2015. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Tommy Nilssons nya bröllopsbesked med 19 år yngre Linda". Hänt.se. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. ^ Hemmets Journal 21 februari 2013, "Tommy Nilsson: Känns coolt att bli farsa igen"