Angela Anna Margareta Kovács, (born Vaksala, Uppland

Uppland

Uppland is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic sea...

, May 23, 1964) is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 actress of partial Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 descent. She studied at the Gothenburg Theatre Academy

Gothenburg Theatre Academy

Gothenburg Theatre Academy refers to the drama school in Gothenburg, Sweden, that started in 1941 as Maria Schildknechts elevskola and today, after several changes of name and organizational structure, forms part of the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg....

 from 1987 until 1990. She then began her career as a stage actress, working at the Gothenburg City Theatre

Gothenburg City Theatre

Gothenburg City Theatre opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was drawn by Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamline Moderne. The critics thought it to be a too old-fashioned building – the International Style had had a big...

, the Helsingborg City Theater, and the Royal Dramatic Theatre

Royal Dramatic Theatre

The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's eight running stages....

. She began her film career in 2001 in Hans och hennes

Hans och hennes

Making Babies is a Swedish film from 2001, directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf.Johan and Anna-Karin live somewhere in the countryside...

by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf

Daniel Lind Lagerlöf

Daniel Lind Lagerlöf is a Swedish director, screenwriter and producer.He is missing since 6 October 2011. He probably fell in the water at the steep cliffs of the Tjurpannans nature reserve outside Tanumshede in Bohuslän, during preparations for the filming of Camilla Läckberg's Fjällbackamorden -...

. From 2005 to 2007 she played Ann-Britt Höglund in the Wallander series

Wallander (Swedish TV series)

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films were produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell...

 of television films based on the eponymous novels

Kurt Wallander

Kurt Wallander is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist of several mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, 60 km south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne...

. More recently she has been seen as Irene Huss in a television series based on the novels by Helene Tursten

Helene Tursten

Helene Tursten is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. The main character in her stories is Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Before becoming an author, Tursten worked as a nurse and then a dentist, but was forced to leave due to illness...

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