Ebba Charlotta Elise Hwasser née Jakobsson (16 March 1831 – 28 January 1894) was a Swedish stage actress.

[1] Elise Jakobsson was born in Stockholm as the daughter of the custom caretaker Johannes Magnus Jacobson and Catharina (Cajsa) Maria Bergström.

"[2] Elise Hwasser was regarded to be the first on the royal stage capable of truly filling the place of stage actress Emilie Högqvist (1812–1846) in the so-called ingenue and heroine parts,[2] but was progressively given main roles also in realistic drama, and her career and development from romantic ingenue to character actress has been said to illustrate the transfer of romanticism to realism which occurred in the Swedish theater stage during her years as the leading elite actress of the Royal theater.

[4][5] She played Ophelia, Juliet (1872), Desdemona (1858), Mary Stuart (1868) and Cleopatra (1881) with success, but her most acclaimed roles were as characters in popular novels, such as Jane Eyre (1854).

[6] Elise Hwasser's private lifestyle was considered eccentric, as she enjoyed smoking cigars and pipes and drinking punch, which was at that time regarded to be masculine habits, and she was seen as an emancipated woman.

[2] At one point, Elise Hwasser had a brief affair with the Crown Prince, the future Charles XV of Sweden.

She was given main roles because of her own talent for many years after the crown prince had acquired a new lover and her spouse was no longer director.