 After finishing her education, she was employed as actress Marianne Lindberg at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm for eleven years, preferring challenging parts over glamorous ones.For her first of 25 parts on that stage, selected to act there as their only graduate that year, she played Annie in the Swedish version of "Life With Father".Her directors included Olof Molander, Alf Sjöberg, Ingmar Bergman, Mimi Pollak and Göran Gentele, and some of the actors in her plays were Jarl Kulle, Inga Tidblad and Mai Zetterling.