Martha Hedman

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Martha Hedman (August 12, 1883 - June 20, 1974) was a Swedish-American stage actress popular on the Broadway stage. She was born to Johan Hedman and Ingrid Kempe in Östersund, in Jämtland County, Sweden. She studied for the stage under the tutelage of Siri von Essen the wife of playwright and novelist, August Strindberg. She first appeared on the stage in February 1905 in Helsinki, Finland in a Hans Christen Andersen fairy tale. For the next six years appeared in Sweden, Finland and Germany in plays by William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Gerhardt Hauptmann and Ludwig Fulda.