The Gunn Wållgren Award or The Gunn Wållgren Scholarship Award (in Swedish: Gunn Wållgren-stipendiet) is one of Sweden

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....

's finest theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

s for young actresses. It was instituted in the 1980s in memory and honor of Swedish actress Gunn Wållgren

Gunn Wållgren

Gunn Wållgren, born Gunnel Margaret Haraldsdotter Wållgren , was a Swedish actress.Considered one of Sweden's finest and also to date most appreciated actresses, Wållgren was famous for her fragile and sensual way of acting, her warm and rich inner soulfulness, and her never failing ability of...

, one of the Swedish theatre's finest stage actresses.

It is given out annually on Wållgren's birthday (November 16) to a young promising Swedish actress of the stage.

The prize sum consists of 20,000 Swedish Kronor (approximately USD 2,950).