Margareta Pettersson
Margareta Pettersson is a Swedish actress who plays with Matt Damon in the feature film Downsizing, directed by Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne. Margareta plays the major supporting role of Solveig Edvardsen. She has scenes with Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau and Rolf Lassgård.
Margareta has more than thirty years experience as an actress. She is known for always being very true in her roles, a strong presence on screen and she is also known as a comedienne. She has worked with director Ingmar Bergman in his feature films Fanny and Alexander and Face to Face. Bergman gave Margareta compliments for her natural and true presence on screen. She also worked with Lasse Hallström in his feature film Tuppen.
In 2021 in Swedish Short Film Festival Margareta wins Audience Favorite for her own short film Tissel Tassel. She plays the shaman woman in the international TV-series Epic Warrior Women in 2019. Margareta Pettersson is producer, director, and screenwriter, and plays the main role in her own short film Mötet, which was nominated for Best Short Film in SM in Minute Film at Swedish Short film Festival 2019. She was nominated for Best Swedish Female Actor in Luleå International Film Festival in 2019 for her main role in the Short film Alma 2. She won Prize of Honour at the Movie Festival in Poland 2019. Her Short Film Alma Another Day. Meeting and Alma 1 was selected in Luleå International Film Festival in 2020. She plays the main role as Mother in the Swedish Short Film The Tyrant which won prize as Best Swedish Short Film in Luleå International Film Festival in 2020.
Acting
Movie
Downsizing
as Solveig Edvardsen
2017
Movie
Face to Face
as Girlfriend (uncredited)
1976
Movie
The Ketchup Effect
as Headmaster
2004
Movie
Something Must Break
as Colleague (uncredited)
2014
Movie
Peas & Whiskers
as Ullabritt
1986
Movie
Joker
1991
Movie
The Rooster
1981
Movie
The Lake
1999
Movie
SOPOR
1981
Movie
The Serpent's Way
as Granne (uncredited)
1986
Movie
Flicker
as Berit
2012
TV
Julkalendern
as Granne
1960
Movie
Dödspolare
as Woman in the attic
1985
Movie
City of My Dreams
1976
Movie
Deadly Drift
1999
Movie
Hassel - Beskyddarna
1986
Movie
Lust
1994
Movie
Time of the Wolf
1988
Movie
Near and Far Away
as Patient (uncredited)
1976
Movie
King of Atlantis
as Grannen Ylva
2019
Movie
Dreams of Las Vegas
as Maj-Gull Johansson
2021
Movie
Blackout
as Mickes mamma
2014
TV
Sally
1999
Movie
I Am My Own
as Lena
2014