Charlotta Almlöf
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Anna Maria Franziska Charlotta Almlöf, née
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 Ficker, (June 16, 1813 - 1882), was a Swedish stage actress.

Daughter of Christian Fredrik Ficker, a musician at Kungliga Hovkapellet
Kungliga Hovkapellet
Kungliga Hovkapellet , is a Swedish orchestra and was located at the Royal Court in Sweden's capital Stockholm. It was first recorded in 1526. Since 1773 it is part of the Royal Swedish Opera's company....

, and sister of the opera singer Mathilda Gelhaar
Mathilda Gelhaar
Mathilda Fredrika Gelhaar, née Ficker, , was a Swedish opera singer. She was also appointed official singer of the royal court....

, she was enrolled in 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...

 in 1830. She was contracted as a premier actress 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 1834, and retired in 1859.

She was described as beautiful and gracious and was popular in the part of coquettish girls and flirtatious gentlewomen in the popular genre of the time, salon comedies. She replaced 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....

 to some extent in her field in the theatre. She was one of the most popular actresses among the audience, but she was not as popular among the critics as she was to the public. The critics described her as overestimated and unnable to live up to the high expectations, beautiful, elegant and with good posture but artificial and affectatious. Her popularity among the public, however, made her one of the stars of the royal stage and one of the more noted of the actors in the Swedish theatre history. In 1843, she was one of the highest paid actors of the theatre.

She was a student of Nils Almlöf
Nils Almlöf
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, where he was successful as Leicester...

, whom she married in 1839.
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