Hilda Borgström

Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 – 2 January 1953) was a Swedish stage and film actress.

[1] She starred in leading parts in Victor Sjöström's silent films Ingeborg Holm (aka Margaret Day) (1913) and Körkarlen (aka The Phantom Carriage/The Stroke of Midnight/Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness) in 1921.

Borgström started out to be a dancer and trained at the old Royal Theatre's ballet school in Stockholm 1880–1887.

She appeared in several supporting parts in Swedish films in the 1930s to the 1950s, for example in Ingmar Bergman's early 1948 film Music in Darkness, in the thriller Ett brott [sv] (A Crime) (1940) and in The Emperor of Portugallia (1944), based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf, and in a pair of films by Hasse Ekman such as Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) (1945) and Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row) (1949).

The film is shown at Christmas Eve every year on Swedish television.