She was born as
Susanna Ragnarsdotter Östberg on April 1, 1920 in Stockholm to Ragnar Östberg and Carin Thiel. Both her parents had been married before and had divorced their spouses. She started studying
ballet as a young girl, and she appeared as a dancer in several Swedish films in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in variety shows and revues. She was married twice; first in 1941 to Sven Arne Gillgren with whom she had two daughters, Carina (born 1943) and Marianne (born 1945). They divorced in 1949, and in the same year she married
Povel Ramel, who had first noticed her when she was a dancer at
Södra Teatern. Ramel
turned 100 on 1 April 2020, and died three days later. ==Filmography==