Meg Westergren

Meg Westergren

Born: May 16, 1932
in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Westergren is the daughter of famous actors Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad. They moved to Nockeby, Stockholm, in 1931 and got married the same year. Westergren was born the following year on 16 May 1932. As a child, Westergren was a big admirer of her mother who was one of the biggest stars in Swedish theater. Westergren was raised with a nanny and has later said she wishes her busy parents would have spent more time with her while growing up.

Westergren was originally not planning on becoming an actress. Instead she decided to become a fashion designer and traveled to Paris to study. In between lessons at the designer institute, she walked the runway as a model at the fashion house Carven.

Movies for Meg Westergren...

Kilimanjaro
Title: Kilimanjaro
Character: Fr. Bloom
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Goran and Kerstin are living in an emotionally distant relationship. Approaching retirement while their intimacy is fading away caused by Kerstin's dementia. Goran decides to make one last trip with his friend Juan, trying to bring back meaning into his life. But things do not turn out as expected.
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Somewhere Else
Title: Somewhere Else
Character: Sonja
Released: December 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.
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Title: Stjärnorna På Slottet
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: TV
Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.
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Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid
Title: Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid
Character: Self
Released: August 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor.
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One For the Pot
Title: One For the Pot
Released: January 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Billy is about to become the heir to a millionaire, provided that he is the only living heir. Complications arise quite soon when it turns out that Billy has three twin brothers who are also looking after heritage.
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Ojdå - en till..?
Title: Ojdå - en till..?
Character: Amy Hardcastle
Released: January 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Filmed stage performance of the farce "One for the pot" by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton. Billy is supposed to inherit a large sum of money but his three identical twin brothers also want a piece.
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Title: Sunes jul
Character: Informationsdamen
Released: December 1, 1991
Type: TV
Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.
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Min pappa är Tarzan
Title: Min pappa är Tarzan
Character: hamstern Harry
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Moa is seven years old and lives with her mother and her hamster. When her mother gets a new boyfriend Moa starts fantasising about her father's life in Africa.
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Title: Nya himlar och en ny jord
Character: Malla Silfverstolpe
Released: October 30, 1984
Type: TV
Drama about the life of the writer Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.
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Raskenstam
Title: Raskenstam
Character: Ulla Larsson
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
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Title: Gäster med gester
Character: Herself, contestant
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: TV
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Dante: Beware of the Shark!
Title: Dante: Beware of the Shark!
Character: Tvärsan's mother
Released: August 26, 1978
Type: Movie
When Dante's parents go on vacation, Dante and his buddy Tvärsan get the chance to play detectives.
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Title: Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Character: Woman in Commercial
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
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Title: Pappas pojkar
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: TV
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Miss and Mrs Sweden
Title: Miss and Mrs Sweden
Character: Eivor
Released: December 21, 1969
Type: Movie
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.
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Title: Julkalendern
Character: Tanten vid informationsdisken
Released: November 27, 1960
Type: TV
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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Miss Chic
Title: Miss Chic
Character: Margareta Langenhielm
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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Jazz Boy
Title: Jazz Boy
Character: Madeleine
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: Movie
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
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Miss April
Title: Miss April
Character: Anna
Released: June 8, 1958
Type: Movie
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
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Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Title: Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Character: Maggan Palm
Released: September 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.
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Främlingen från skyn
Title: Främlingen från skyn
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Julle's Fiancee
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
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Så tuktas kärleken
Title: Så tuktas kärleken
Character: Ulla
Released: October 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.
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The Yellow Squadron
Title: The Yellow Squadron
Character: Ulla, Arne's fiance
Released: November 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
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Marianne
Title: Marianne
Character: Birgitta
Released: September 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
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Leva på 'Hoppet'
Title: Leva på 'Hoppet'
Character: Vivi
Released: April 11, 1951
Type: Movie
A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.