Eva Henning is a Swedish

Sweden

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 stage and movie actress, born in Newark

Newark, New York

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, New York

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, U.S.

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Career

Henning was trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre

Royal Dramatic Theatre

The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's eight running stages....

's acting school (1938-40) in Sweden.
Henning is most famous for her leading roles in many of husband Hasse Ekmans films in the 1940s and 50s.

Family and personal life

Henning was married to Swedish film director and actor Hasse Ekman

Hasse Ekman

Hasse Ekman was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950...

 1946-53 and from 1954 to Norwegian actor Toralv Maurstad

Toralv Maurstad

Toralv Maurstad is a prominent actor of Norwegian stage, screen and television. By many regarded as the leading Norwegian actor of his generation, he is the son of the highly regarded actor Alfred Maurstad and actress Tordis Maurstad, and half-brother of actress Mari Maurstad.Maurstad graduated...

 (they later divorced). Henning is a stepdaughter to the Swedish stage actor Uno Henning. She is the mother of children's writer and illustrator Fam Ekman

Fam Ekman

Fam Ekman is a Swedish/Norwegian children's writer and illustrator. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden as the daughter of actors Hasse Ekman and Eva Henning, and moved to Oslo in 1954....

, and , lives in Oslo

Oslo

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, Norway

Norway

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Selected filmography

• 1972 - Ture Sventon privatdetektic
• 1968 - Svarta palmkronor
• 1954 - Gabrielle
• 1953 - Glasberget
• 1952 - Eldfågeln
• 1950 - Flicka och hyacinter
  Girl with Hyacinths
  Girl with Hyacinths is a 1950 Swedish drama film written and directed by Hasse Ekman, starring Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Anders Ek and Birgit Tengroth. It follows a man who investigates the mysterious life of his neighbour who has committed suicide.-Plot:...
  
  
• 1949 - Flickan från tredje raden
• 1949 - Prison
  Prison (1949 film)
  -Cast:* Doris Svedlund – Birgitta Carolina Soederberg* Birger Malmsten – Tomas* Eva Henning – Sofi* Hasse Ekman – Martin Grande* Stig Olin – Peter* Irma Christenson – Linnea* Anders Henrikson – Paul* Marianne Löfgren – Mrs. Bohlin* Bibi Lindqvist – Anna...
  
   (Fängelse)
• 1949 - Thirst (Törst)
• 1948 - Banketten
• 1947 - En fluga gör ingen sommar
• 1945 - Rosen på Tistelön
• 1945 - Vandring med månen
• 1945 - Kungliga patrasket
• 1943 - Elvira Madigan
• 1941 - Den ljusnande framtid
• 1940 - Gentleman att hyra

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