Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso ( Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress.
Early life
Hasso was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm in 1915. Her father and grandfather died when she was four, and her mother, grandmother, two siblings, and her shared a single room. Her mother, a former aspiring actress herself, worked as a waffle cook.
Career
Hasso's acting career began by accident. When a young actress fell ill, her mother was asked if she knew of any little girl who could act. Hasso later recalled, "I was 12 then and didn't want to go and neither did my sister, so my mother flipped a coin. I lost." Her audition for a Molière play was successful, and she started earning money as an actress. and enrolled as the youngest acting student in its history at the age of 16.
Hasso performed on stage and in film in Sweden. With only a few RKO roles forthcoming, she turned to the stage to make a living. In the mid-1940s, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Personal life and death
Her first husband was cinematographer/director Harry Hasso, whom she married in 1933. They had a son by the time she was 19,
Awards
In 1935, Hasso received the Theatre League's De Wahl-stipendium and in 1939 the first Nordic nordiska Gösta Ekmanpriset. In 1972, King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden named her Member 1st Class of the Royal Order of Vasa. – Kristina – hans hustru
- Emilie Högquist (1939) – Emelie Högqvist
- Bastard (1940) – Aitanga, nomadepike
- Stål (1940) – Margit
- Än en gång Gösta Ekman (1940 short) – Birgit Steen
- With Open Arms (1940) – Eva Richert
- The Three of Us (1940) – Kristina, hans hustru
- Den ljusnande framtid (Bright Prospects, 1941) – Birgit Norén
- Assignment in Brittany (1943) – Elise
- Heaven Can Wait (1943) – Mademoiselle
- The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) – Bettina
- The Seventh Cross (1944) – Toni
- Dangerous Partners (1945) – Carola Ballister
- The House on 92nd Street (1945) – Elsa Gebhardt
- Johnny Angel (1945) – Paulette Girard
- Strange Triangle (1946) – Francine Huber
- A Scandal in Paris (1946) – Therese De Pierremont
- Where There's Life (1947) – Gen. Katrina Grimovitch
- A Double Life (1947) – Brita Kaurin
- To the Ends of the Earth (1948) – Ann Grant
- Outside the Wall (1950) – Celia Bentner
- Crisis (1950) – Senora Isabel Farrago
- This Can't Happen Here (1950) – Vera Irmelin
- Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1952 short)
- The Sun of St. Moritz (1954) – Gerti Selle
- Taxi 13 (1954) – Agneta
- The Magnificent Lie (1955) – Joséphine de Merret
- Bonanza (1963), episode A Stranger Passed This Way - Christina Vandervort
- Picture Mommy Dead (1966) – Sister René
- Code Name: Heraclitus (1967 TV movie) – Lydia Constantine
- A Reflection of Fear (1972) – Julia
- Shell Game (1975 TV movie) – Countess
- The Black Bird (1975) – Dr. Crippen
- Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976 TV movie) – Fraulein Reichenbach
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) – Helene
- Winner Take All (1977 TV movie)
- Evita Peron (1981 TV movie) – Fedora
- Pappa är död (1982 TV movie) – Sonja Bengtsson
- Mirrors (1985 TV movie) – Madame Eugenia
- One Hell of a Guy (1998) – Aunt Vivian
Selected bibliography
- Momo (1977)
- Kom slott (1978)
- Inte än (1988)
- Om igen (1989)
- Tidens vän (1990)