Margareta Pettersson

Acting

Margareta Pettersson

Born

1955-10-06 (71)

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

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 i…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 7 titles

Downsizing poster
5.4

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Downsizing

2017

Something Must Break poster
6.2

A gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.

Something Must Break

2014

Flicker poster
5.7

There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.

Flicker

2012

King of Atlantis poster
9.0

Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.

King of Atlantis

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Djävulens Marionetter

2019

I Am My Own poster
NR

Crime-drama about a drifting drug dealer on the run in the Swedish countryside, who ends up with a baby on his hands.

I Am My Own

2014

Blackout poster
6.0

Sanna (Nathalie Bloom) a rocker girl who is stuck in her old high school life with her boyfriend Micke (Lars Sandberg) who rather hangs out with his friend Latino (Robert Isberg) than spends time with her. Sanna works as a personal assistant to Lisbeth (Anna Almroth). Lisbeth's son Mårten (Michael Hamory) is a nerd who has a crush on Sanna. One day Mårten has an accident and everything changes.

Blackout

2014

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Time of the Wolf poster
4.3

The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.

Time of the Wolf

1988

The Serpent's Way poster
5.8

A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow with the abuser's kids.

The Serpent's Way

1986

The Rooster poster
5.6

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Rooster

1981

Peas & Whiskers poster
6.3

Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?

Peas & Whiskers

1986

SOPOR poster
5.5

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.

SOPOR

1981

Dödspolare poster
5.8

A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life.

Dödspolare

1985

Hassel - Beskyddarna poster
5.9

The criminal police is investigating a criminal gang blackmailing restaurant owners.

Hassel - Beskyddarna

1986

1970s · 4 titles

Undated · 1 titles

Series credits