[citation needed] At the age of seventeen he moved to Värnamo and started high school studies.

[1] At the end of the 1970s, Svensson enrolled for acting studies at Skara Skolscen and then at Teaterhögskolan in Gothenburg.

[4][5] During the summer of 2007, Svensson performed on stage comedy shows in Växjö in the play Kuta och Kör where he had the lead role.

[7] In November 2013, Svensson revealed that he was to play Kapten Klänning more known as Göran Lindberg a former police chief who was imprisoned in 2010 for sexually abusing a number of women.

[8] In the summer of 2014 Svensson and Robert Gustafsson worked together in the play Charmörer på vift at the Krusenstiernska outside theater.