Ellen Hartman made her debut on the stage in 1877. She was a student of the
Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm 1878–1880. Among her teachers were
Bertha Tammelin. She was employed at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1880–1890, from 1886 as a premier actress. She made a scandal when she eloped from her contract to Paris with her fiancé Gustaf Reinhold von Rosen. After this, she was active in Paris, and took part in the tour of Coquelin to
Russia and
Scandinavia. In 1893–94, she was employed at Théâtre Vaudeville in Paris. She was active at the Royal Dramatic Theatre again in 1894–98. In 1924, she participated in the film
The Saga of Gosta Berling, starring
Greta Garbo and
Lars Hanson, in which Hartman portrayed Märta Dohna. She is sometimes credited as
Ellen Hartman-Cederström. == Personal life and death==