Gunnel Fred

Acting

Gunnel Fred

Born

1955-08-29 (71)

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Gunnel Elisabet Fred is a Swedish stage and screen actress. She is a member of "Lorrygänget".

Known for

The Bridge poster
8.1

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

The Bridge

2011

Midsommar poster
7.1

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Midsommar

2019

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

Lorry poster
5.9

Lorry was a TV series that premiered on Swedish TV in 1989, broadcast from restaurant Lorry in Sundbyberg. In the ensemble were Peter Dalle, Johan Ulveson, Claes Månsson, Lena Endre, Gunnel Fred, Gunilla Röör, Suzanne Reuter, Ulla Skoog, Evamaria Björkström-Roos and Stefan Sauk. They have also done a show on the Tyrol in 1991 and the movie Yrrol in 1994. The series was said to turn to a "divorced and mature youth", which was also the explanation for having the same title as a dancehall in Sundbyberg. Peter Dalle was the central figure behind Lorry. He wrote the most part of the material and also directed the fourth and last season. Carsten Palmaer, Sven-Hugo Persson and Rolf Börjlind also contributed to the script. The Lorry gang became famous for their sharp, offensive and politically incorrect humor, which even led to pressed charges to the broadcasting commission. The TV series's opening credits song was Earth, Wind & Fire's hit "In the stone". The Lorry gang returned in a variety show at the Oscar Theater in Stockholm and it became a huge hit with the audience in 2001–2002. Parts of the show were sketches taken from the TV series.

Lorry

1989

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Svensson, Svensson poster
6.3

Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.

Svensson, Svensson

1994

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Doctor Glas poster
7.6

The lonely doctor Gabriel Glas despises society's superficiality - until the fashion designer Helga enters his life. She's trapped in a destructive marriage, and Gabriel sees his chance to save her. Soon, they are caught in a web of lies, desire, and power. The deeper Gabriel is drawn into the relationship, the more moral boundaries he crosses - with catastrophic consequences.

Doctor Glas

2026

Diorama poster
5.5

As miscommunication and temptations abound, a couple's once-passionate marriage slowly unravels, narrated through humorous dioramas.

Diorama

2022

Beck 54 - In the shadows poster
6.0

A violent gang in one of Stockholm's suburbs is suspected of another fatal shooting and the Stockholm police are conducting a cross-border operation to prosecute the leader of the gang.

Beck 54 - In the shadows

2026

Beck 53 - From the Ashes poster
5.8

The team investigates an arson murder involving head pastor Tolle, who is found burned to death inside the Jeriko parish church. The church’s other pastor is Ellen Bengtsdotter Dahl, a childhood friend of Alex. The case quickly becomes personal, and Alex faces difficult choices as her professional duties clash with her past.

Beck 53 - From the Ashes

2025

Beck 52 - The Invisible Man poster
7.0

When Alex is alerted to a brutal murder, she brings the temporarily suspended Vilhelm and her colleague Josef to the crime scene. The victim turns out to have connections to the digital university Howl, which investigates the role of men in a changing world. At the same time, the case is linked to an older investigation into the "Balcony Man", which brings Martin Beck back to the department.

Beck 52 - The Invisible Man

2025

The Pinchers' High Voltage Heist poster
5.4

Ture's parents just never listen. Even though he's asked them hundreds of times to stop stealing, it'll take 20,000 volts to get their attention.

The Pinchers' High Voltage Heist

2023

The Swedish Torpedo poster
6.6

World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

The Swedish Torpedo

2024

The School Photographer poster
NR

With the film industry in decline, Björn (50), a seasoned first assistant director, finds himself unemployed and adrift. To stay afloat, he takes a temporary job as a school photographer—an unfamiliar and humbling role. Over the course of one long day, Björn's fragile calm is tested by a string of phone calls from his mother, his teenage daughter, and his ex-wife. Each conversation pulls him further off balance, and the tension begins to seep into the portraits he takes. As his professional facade starts to crack, an unexpected encounter with a P.E. teacher at the school offers a brief moment of understanding—and a hint that change might still be possible.

The School Photographer

2026

A Christmas Guest poster
NR

On Christmas Eve, an elderly couple receives an unexpected visitor. In an instant, the past resurfaces, unveiling a fragile journey through alienation, belonging, and the hope of reconciliation. A short film inspired by Selma Lagerlöf's A Christmas Guest.

A Christmas Guest

2025

2000s · 5 titles

Saraband poster
7.1

Reuniting the characters of Johan and Marianne three decades after "Scenes from a Marriage," "Saraband" follows Marianne’s visit to her reclusive ex-husband, where she finds him locked in a destructive conflict with his troubled son Henrik and Henrik’s musically gifted daughter Karin. Told as an intimate chamber drama, the film explores love, resentment, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of family bonds.

Saraband

2003

Nina Frisk poster
5.0

Nina Frisk is a flight attendant who loves flying. She is happy above the clouds, far away from her dysfunctional family and superficial love life. But then one day Nina meets Marcus and his son William, and falls helplessly in love. For the first time ever in her life, Nina begins to long for a family of her own. But Nina soon discovers that life on earth can be just as turbulent as in the sky.

Nina Frisk

2007

Details poster
4.7

Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.

Details

2003

No artwork available
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Sjätte juni

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The First Day

2008

1990s · 8 titles

In the Presence of a Clown poster
7.0

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.

In the Presence of a Clown

1998

The Dream House poster
5.2

Göran buys a house in a suburb. It is in need of some repairs, but Göran believes himself capable of repairing it himself with the help of some cheap craftsmen. However, the house is much worse than he thought. At the same time, a gang of crooks is searching for the dynamite they hid in the basement some time ago. Göran has to rescue both his wallet from greedy craftsmen as well as his marriage with Tina.

The Dream House

1993

Private Confessions poster
6.1

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.

Private Confessions

1996

Subterranian Secrets poster
10.0

The ten year old Nisse suffers from acute asthma and is rushed to the hospital. There he meets Lelle who is a bitter, lonely and seriously ill twelve-year-old. Lelle, who never gets any visits treats Nisse kindly. Lelle inaugurates Nisse in his secret plan to build a giant Zeppelin and steal the food available in the hospital's underground reserves.

Subterranian Secrets

1991

I sällskap med en clown poster
10.0

One hour making-of of Bergman's In the Presence of a Clown.

I sällskap med en clown

1997

Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie poster
6.6

Sketch comedy. Look forward to an evening of satire, smut, and contemporary issues in an unholy mix. What more could you want? In these gloomy times? How many times has it been said about a film: "You've never seen anything like it"? This time, it's actually true. This film features, among other things, a bartender with a naked lower body, a double coffin with a built-in pie, a violent flight attendant, five screaming Salvation Army soldiers, a blind TV salesman, a dirty tennis ball and, of course, Uncle Bosse – dirtier than ever.

Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie

1994

Svart Lucia poster
5.4

High school student Mikaela is attracted by her Swedish teacher Göran and writes an erotic novel for his class.

Svart Lucia

1992

Cheek to Cheek poster
9.0

The faded dragshow entertainer Ragnar Rönn is both broke and lonely. He is becoming extremely unpopular. Noone comes to his shows. Perhaps it might have to do with the fact that he is completely unruly and bitter. One day he runs into the middle-aged funeral entrepreneur Margaretha.

Cheek to Cheek

1997

1980s · 9 titles

Åke and His World poster
6.3

Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie.

Åke and His World

1984

Framed poster
5.8

Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuade" him to participate in a heist. Things become extremely hectic as he tries to prove his innocence as well as "helping" his inmates. When Conny thinks that it couldn't possibly get any worse he meets Susanne, a policewoman...

Framed

1988

Kunglig toilette poster
6.6

The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.

Kunglig toilette

1986

Fläskfarmen poster
7.7

A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers.

Fläskfarmen

1986

Hassel - Slavhandlarna poster
6.4

A criminal gang use illegal immigrants as labor on the black market.

Hassel - Slavhandlarna

1989

A Film About Love poster
4.3

At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband.

A Film About Love

1987

Ester - om John Bauers hustru poster
NR

A biography of the famous Swedish artist John Bauer's wife Ester Ellqvist.

Ester - om John Bauers hustru

1986

G - som i Gemutredningen poster
10.0

A day in the life of Ivar Lo Denisovitj.

G - som i Gemutredningen

1984

Consuelo poster
7.5

A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.

Consuelo

1989

1970s · 4 titles

Series credits

The Bridge poster
8.1

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

The Bridge

2011

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

Lorry poster
5.9

Lorry was a TV series that premiered on Swedish TV in 1989, broadcast from restaurant Lorry in Sundbyberg. In the ensemble were Peter Dalle, Johan Ulveson, Claes Månsson, Lena Endre, Gunnel Fred, Gunilla Röör, Suzanne Reuter, Ulla Skoog, Evamaria Björkström-Roos and Stefan Sauk. They have also done a show on the Tyrol in 1991 and the movie Yrrol in 1994. The series was said to turn to a "divorced and mature youth", which was also the explanation for having the same title as a dancehall in Sundbyberg. Peter Dalle was the central figure behind Lorry. He wrote the most part of the material and also directed the fourth and last season. Carsten Palmaer, Sven-Hugo Persson and Rolf Börjlind also contributed to the script. The Lorry gang became famous for their sharp, offensive and politically incorrect humor, which even led to pressed charges to the broadcasting commission. The TV series's opening credits song was Earth, Wind & Fire's hit "In the stone". The Lorry gang returned in a variety show at the Oscar Theater in Stockholm and it became a huge hit with the audience in 2001–2002. Parts of the show were sketches taken from the TV series.

Lorry

1989

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Svensson, Svensson poster
6.3

Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.

Svensson, Svensson

1994

En hederlig jul med Knyckertz poster
5.0

The Knyckertz family are thieves who enjoy taking other people's things. But Ture, their son, is different. He doesn't like stealing. He can't even lie!

En hederlig jul med Knyckertz

2021

Smash poster
7.0

Classic comedy about the lives of four very unsuccessful tennis players.

Smash

1990

Live Life poster
6.5

Meet Nora, a young and vibrant journalist with a promising future ahead of her. But just as she’s about to take on the world, fate throws her a cruel curveball: a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

Live Life

2023

Innocently Convicted poster
4.7

Oskyldigt dömd is a Swedish drama television series from 2008. The first season was recorded in twelve episodes during February 2008 to be aired later during the fall. It premiered on the Finnish TV channel FST5 on September 24, 2008 and later the same evening on Swedish TV4. The series is produced by Filmlance. On January 23 TV4 announced that Mikael Persbrandt would be playing the main character and on February 10 other cast members were announced; Helena af Sandeberg, Sofia Ledarp, Marie Richardson and Mirja Turestedt. TV4 also announced that they had started to work on the second season before the first had even been aired., the first season was written by Johan Zollitsch, Jan Arnald, Karin Gidfors and Hans Rosenfeldt but the second one is written by Thomas Borgström and Sara Heldt. Filming the second season took place during the spring 2009. TV4 refused to say how much money the filming has cost the channel, but they confirms that "a lot of money" has been used.

Innocently Convicted

2008

Den fördömde poster
4.0

Swedish crime drama series about forensic psychologist Sebastian Bergmann.

Den fördömde

2010

En dag i taget poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

En dag i taget

1999

The fifth generation poster
NR

A biological super computer at a Swedish hospital starts manipulating fetuses of pregnant women. As specialists try to stop it the computer starts targeting an 18 year old boy named Jens.

The fifth generation

1986

Nutcases & Normals poster
5.0

A young girl cuts off her hair as a protest against her mother and is mistaken for a boy at her new school.

Nutcases & Normals

1988

Sammansvärjningen poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sammansvärjningen

1986

Stoft och skugga poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stoft och skugga

1988