Gerda Lundequist
Stage Actress
Swedish stage actress who appeared in numerous plays by dramatists Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. Her other stage credits include roles in William Shakespeare's King Lear and Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart.
She became their after playing the role of Gertrude in an 1891 production of Hamlet.
She was an outspoken supporter of women's equality.
Her granddaughter, Sonja Linwood, had a career as a musician.
She produced and directed Anna Christie, a play by Eugene O'Neill.