Victor sjostrom biography
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Victor Sjöström
About Sjöström
Born Viktor David Sjöström on 20 September 1879 in Värmland in the west of Sweden, Sjöström emigrated with his family to America (Brooklyn, New York) in 1880 where his father, Olof, who had struggled in Sweden, built up a successful shipping agency in New York.
Victor sjostrom biography
His mother, Elisabeth, a former regional theatre actress and sister of Victor Hartman of Royal Dramatic Theatre fame, died of puerperal fever in 1886, and his father subsequently married a younger woman who had previously been the family nanny.
Victor had a strained relationship with his stepmother and this, alongside his father's growing religious austerity, caused the somewhat unruly Victor to be sent home alone to Sweden in 1893 to live with his aunt in Uppsala.
During his school holidays he visited his uncle, who would take him to the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
As a teenager Victor developed a passionate interest in theatre, becoming the director of the Uppsala Sports Club drama sectio