Thursday, February 15, 2007

Actress who plays Linda Wallander has died

From the official Henning Mankell website:

The actress Johanna Sällström is dead. She was found lifeless in her apartment in Malmö late at night at the 12th of February. According to the police, there is no suspicion of crime related to her death.

Johanna Sällström was born in 1974 and grew up in Hässelby in Stockholm. She became famous at the age of 13 when she stared in the TV-series Tre Kronor, and she had her big break through in 1997 as she was awarded a guldbagge, the Swedish film prize, for her part in Daniel Fridells movie Under ytan. The last few years Johanna Sällström became internationally famous for her part as the daughter Linda in the 13 movies based on Henning Mankell's character Kurt Wallander.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How dreadfully sad. She was so young.

Anonymous said...

just started getting into Wallandar and I really liked Johanna Sallstrom's performances. Really sad to hear of this tragedy.

Anonymous said...

so so sad.

Laptop said...

Sällström experienced the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand with her one year old daughter.

They survived only because she held on to a tree with one hand, and held her daughter with the other.

Sällström was found dead in her home in Malmö shortly before midnight on 13 February 2007. She had been released from a psychiatric unit, where she had been receiving treatment for depression traced to her experience in the 2004 tsunami, a short while previously. The cause of her death was suicide.

kevin scholes said...

2023 watching wallander read about johanna so shocked by her death in 2007 . She was brilliant in the TV series love her character as wallanders daughter .why? was she so depressed? Rest in peace johanna Godbless you