Anneli Elisabeth Alhanko Skoglund, born on December 11, 1953, in Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

 dancer and actress.

Alhanko was a dance student at Operabaletten, The Opera Ballet in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden. She is one of the very few in the world with the title prima ballerina assoluta

Prima ballerina assoluta

Prima ballerina assoluta is a rank or title given to notable female ballet dancers. To be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta is a very rare honour, reserved only for the most exceptional soloists, usually those who have achieved international acclaim....

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Anneli Alhanko is aunt to the actress Josephine Alhanko

Josephine Alhanko

Josephine Alhanko, is a Swedish actress and former Miss Sweden titleholder. She is niece of the ballet dancer, Anneli Alhanko....

, the Miss Sweden

Miss Sweden

Miss Sweden , is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, which ran from 1949-2003, by the female magazine VeckoRevyn and production company Strix in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contests Miss Universe and first runner ups to Miss World...

2006 titleholder.

Alhanko is also the founder of the dance school Base 23 which opened in Stockholm January 2010.

Appearances in films

• 1984 - Abbalett
• 1993 - Sista dansen
• 1994 - Dansaren
• 2000 - The Working of Utopia
• 2002 - R.E.A. (Roligt. Elakt. Aktuellt.)

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