Nils Vilhelm Almlöf, was a Swedish actor, considered as one of the most famous in the 19th century, called "The Swedish Talma".

Child of a court servant, Nils Almlöf, he interrupted his medical studies to study singing under Craelius of the Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera

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, where he was successful as Leicester in Mary Stuart opposite Charlotta Eriksson

Charlotta Eriksson

Charlotta Maria Eriksson was a Swedish actress, one of the most popular and notable actors in Sweden in the first half of the 19th century. She was also a translator, an actor-instructor, a vice principal, and a painter....

 in 1821. He was a star 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....

 for sixty years, where he was a notable male actor in tragedy. When he visited Paris in 1829, he was called the "Swedish Talma" by Mademoiselle Mars

Mademoiselle Mars

Mademoiselle Mars, , French actress, was born in Paris, the natural daughter of the actor-author named Monvel and Jeanne-Marie Salvetat , an actress known as Madame Mars, whose southern accent had made her Paris debut a failure.Mlle Mars began her stage career...

. In 1834 he had a wage of §1800, the highest paid by the theatre. He was teacher of declamation at Dramatens elevskola

Dramatens elevskola

Dramatens elevskola, i.e. Kungliga Dramatiska Teaterns Elevskola, or in Eng: The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, was the acting school of Sweden's national stage, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, and for many years seen as the foremost theatre school and drama education for Swedish stage actors...

 1834–1840. Almlöf and his second wife, Charlotte, as well as other actors, such as Elise Hwasser

Elise Hwasser

Ebba Charlotta Elise Hwasser, née Jakobsson, , was a Swedish actress, the leading lady on the Swedish stage for thirty years, and often described as the greatest female dramatic star in Sweden during the Victorian era....

, was good friends with King Charles XV of Sweden

Charles XV of Sweden

Charles XV & IV also Carl ; Swedish and Norwegian: Karl was King of Sweden and Norway from 1859 until his death....

, and was often invited to his ball games during his reign as Crown Prince regent (1857–59).

He was first married to his colleague, Brita Catharina Cederberg, and then to actor Charlotta Ficker

Charlotta Almlöf

Anna Maria Franziska Charlotta Almlöf, née Ficker, , was a Swedish stage actress.Daughter of Christian Fredrik Ficker, a musician at Kungliga Hovkapellet, and sister of the opera singer Mathilda Gelhaar, she was enrolled in Dramatens elevskola in 1830...

, also a successful actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. His son with his first wife, Knut Almlöf

Knut Almlöf

Knut Almlöf, , was a Swedish actor, considered to one of the most notable actors on the Swedish stage in the second half of the 19th century....

, was also an actor.