Career

Morman debuted at 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....

 in 1791, and performed at the Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera

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 before she was contracted at the theatre in 1792, where she refused to be a replacement for any actors than the two stars, Fredrique Löwen

Fredrique Löwen

Fredrica Löf, also known as Fredrique Löwen was a Swedish stage actress...

 and Marie Louise Marcadet

Marie Louise Marcadet

Marie Louise Marcadet was a Swedish opera singer and a dramatic stage actor. She was active in both the Royal Swedish Opera, and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. She is regarded as the greatest tragedienne in Sweden during the 1780s decade, before the first noted native tragedienne, Maria Franck...

. She also performed as a guest actor at the Stenborg Theatre

Stenborg Theatre

The Stenborg theatre, also called Svenska Komiska Teatern, Komiska Teatern and Munkbroteatern, was a historical Swedish 18th century theatre, active between 1784 and 1799 in Gamla stan in Stockholm. It was the second theatre of Stockholm during the Gustavian age...

.

She was a tragedienne, but she is foremost remembered as a star within "diabolical" female parts. She played witches, murderers and other "demonical" roles, and reached such fame within her interpretations of negative characters that "the audience loved and hated her" She was described as: ”Tall and thin, with a long face, sharp chin and black eyes, emanating a gloomy fire. The pale skin was as if pasted on her cheeks. Her appearance answered completely to her genre, which was the diabolical one Her ability was said to be: "Terrific within coquettish, heinous woman roles, poison makers, tyrants etc."

Personal Life

She married cleric Johan Peter Brolin in 1788, but was divorced by 1792, when she signed a contract with the name Ebba Jeanette de Morman. She had a relationship with the actor Carl Schylander from 1792 to her death from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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in 1802. They married shortly before her death.