In 1967, she portrayed Teskedsgumman (Mrs. Pepperpot) in the Swedish advent calendar with the same name. The programme became very popular and has been re-run on Swedish television. Later, she also portrayed two other characters on children's shows: Hedvig in Från A till Ö - En Resa Orden runt (From A to Ö - A Trip Around the Words) from 1974 and the small troll Daisy in Trolltider (Trolltimes) from 1979.
She has become a well-liked and popular actress in Sweden[2] with a characteristic dialect (västgötska),[3] and although her main forte has been comedy, she has also had more serious and character roles.[1]
Awards
She received the Guldbagge Honorary Award, which is the Swedish film industry lifetime honorary award, in 2016.[2]
Personal life
Andersson was born in Mariestad in 1933. She has two children, the pianist Matti Bye (born 1966) with her then-husband Anders Bye, and Hanna Z Gradin with the Swedish writer Carl Zetterström.[3]