Olof Winnerstrand

Biography

Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand was a Swedish actor born in Stockholm to a bourgeois family, where he learned the trade of goldsmithing from his father. However, after witnessing his talent, great Swedish actor Emil Hillberg encouraged him to pursue acting, and with his mother's blessing, Winnerstrand sold his family business to join Hillberg's theatre troupe. He made his professional debut in 1901 and went on to form a beloved theatre couple with wife Frida Kumlin.