 Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden.She was the third, and youngest, child of Anna Lovisa (née Johansson, 1872–1944), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920), a laborer.Garbo had an older brother, Sven Alfred (1898–1967), and an older sister, Alva Maria (1903–1926).