On stage, Örjan Ramberg has had both leading and supporting parts: in Nathanael West's En kall miljon , Ben Jonson's Alkemisten, Marivaux's Paradisbarn, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita, Lars Norén's Natten är dagens mor, Margaretha Garpe's Till Julia, Lessing's Emilio Gallotti, in the stage adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga, Shepard's En riktig västern, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Sommar written and directed by Lars Norén, Beaumarchais' Figaros Bröllop , Federico García Lorca's Blodsbröllop , Shakespeare's Lika för lika , Euripides' Medea, Shakespeare's Så tuktas en argbigga children's play Mio, min Mio and in Alfred de Musset's Lek ej med kärleken , among others. In the 2000s, he has collaborated on stage with directors Ingmar Bergman and John Caird in particular. He portrayed Johansson in Strindberg's classic The Ghost Sonata, directed by Bergman in 2000, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Caird in 2000, The Emcee in the musical Cabaret, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Ibsen's Gengångare , and the leading role in Molière's Den inbillade sjuke in 2003. He appeared as Charles Condomine in Noël Coward's Min fru går igen , in the co-Nordic production of the Sami staging of Ibsen's Kungsämnena and in Shakespeare's Macbeth spring/autumn 2006. On film and TV, he has appeared sporadically for example as the investigating photographer Harry Friberg in the Stieg Trenter-crime films for television in 1987, as Chief Editor Schyman in Colin Nutley's thriller Sprängaren, based on the book by Liza Marklund, and his recent supporting part as the bar pianist in TV-series Möbelhandlarens dotter . In 1994 Ramberg was awarded the Golden Mask for Best Actor for his portrayal of Murphy in the stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and in 2001 he received the prestigious Eugene O'Neill Award. On 3 February 2007, John Caird's production of Strindberg's The Dance of Death premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre with Ramberg in the lead as The Captain. In the spring of 2008, he appeared as King Claudius in Staffan Valdemar Holm's production of Hamlet by Shakespeare, and in the spring of 2009 in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. His work there was discontinued by Dramaten in the end of March 2019 following demonstrations triggered by a Sveriges Television documentary Josefin Nilsson - Love me for who I am which, without mentioning him by name, revealed his physical and mental aggression, including death threats, against deceased ex-partner Josefin Nilsson.
Personal life
Besides Nilsson, in the mid-1970s and 1980s Ramberg was the love partner of Swedish actress and Royal Dramatic Theatre colleagueLena Olin with whom he has a son. In the 1980s-1990s he also lived with actress Ewa Fröling with whom he has daughter Tilde Fröling.
