Gerd Andersson

{{short description|Swedish actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = Gerd Andersson och Caj Selling (cropped).jpg | name = Gerd Andersson | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|6|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = | death_place = | years_active = 1951-1989 | occupation = Actress; ballet dancer }}

'''Gerd Gunvor Andersson''' (born 11 June 1932) is a Swedish film actress.<ref name="SFI">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=63919 |title=Gerd Andersson |access-date=6 February 2013 |work=Swedish Film Database |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002212/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=63919 |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}</ref> She was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the sister of Bibi Andersson and the mother of Lars Bethke.

Andersson studied at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and was promoted to principal dancer in 1958. She danced in various classical roles including Giselle and created the main role in ''Echoing of Trumpets''.<ref>Clarke, Mary & Vaughan, David (eds.) (1977) ''The Encyclopaedia of Dance & Ballet''. Pitman Publishing; p. 19</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Summer Interlude'' (1951) * ''Bom the Flyer'' (1952) * ''Secrets of Women'' (1952) * ''The Great Amateur'' (1958) * ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1982)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0027676|name=Gerd Andersson}} *{{Sfdb name}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Gerd}} Category:1932 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Stockholm Category:Swedish film actresses Category:20th-century Swedish actresses Category:20th-century Swedish ballet dancers Category:Swedish ballerinas