Charlotte Lindmark


Charlotte Lindmark was a Swedish ballet dancer and stage actress. She was regarded a member of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1834-39, and engaged as a stage actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Mindre teatern in Stockholm. She enjoyed great popularity and was one of the most famed actresses in Sweden in the mid 19th-century.

Life

Charlotte Lindmark was the daughter of a poor milliner. She made her stage debut in the Children's theater of Anders Selinder. She became a student of the
Royal Swedish Ballet in 1829 and ballerina in 1834. She was a popular and talented ballerina, but was affected by gout to such a degree that she was forced to retire in 1839. She made her debut as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and was regarded to have displayed good talent, but was not considered to live up to the expectations.
From 1845 until her death, she was engaged as an actress at the Mindre teatern, a theater more frequented by the wider public than the royal stage and where she enjoyed great and widespread popularity among both audience and critics. Among her most noted roles where the title role of Drottning Kristina by Jeanette Granberg and the title role of Narcisse Rameau in which it was said that "M:ll Lindmark dies divine".
However, Charlotte Lindmark suffered severely from deteriorating health in parallel to her stage success, but still continued to work hard despite her activity contributing to her illness, which was described by J. C. Hellberg:
Charlotte Lindmark died of "chest pains" on the top of a very successful career in 1858.