Thecla Ottilia Åhlander (3 June 1855 – 8 April 1925) was a Swedish stage and film actress whose career began on the stage in the late 19th century and lasted through the early 1920s.

[1] Thecla Åhlander was born in Norrköping and initially studied drama as pupil of Frans Hedberg in 1872.

She made her stage debut at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1877 in a play titled Ett namn.

Åhlander became one of Scandinavia's premier stage actresses, appearing in roles by Henrik Ibsen,[2] Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ludvig Holberg, August Blanche, Axel Emil Betzonich, amongst others.

[4] Åhlander also appeared in three Swedish silent films in the early 1920s; Gunnar Klintberg's 1921 Elisabet, Mauritz Stiller's 1923 Gunnar Hedes saga and Victor Sjöström's 1923 The Hell Ship (Swedish: Eld ombord).