She worked as an actress for more than 15 years, before her death in Sällström was born in Stockholm. She was the stepdaughter of Björn Gedda. Sällström made her first stage appearance in Hudiksvall at the age of 15, in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
She became famous in Sweden in the s, after portraying the teenage girl Victoria Bärnsten in the soap opera Tre kronor. Thereafter, she appeared in numerous productions, and received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film Under ytan.
Later that same year, unable to cope with her new-found celebrity, she took a break from filming and moved to Copenhagenwhere she worked in a café. InSällström returned to Sweden to continue her acting johanna sällström död hur.
She did not enjoy the success of previous years until, inshe played the role of detective constable Linda Wallander in the first season of the Swedish TV series Wallander. Sällström's last role was in an Ystad theatre production of Anton Chekhov 's play The Seagullwhich she left prematurely due to illness.
Sällström married Albin Sällström in ; they were divorced inabout a year after the birth of their daughter Talulah. InSällström and Talulah experienced the December tsunami while on holiday in Thailand. Sällström was found dead in her Malmö home on 13 February In a interview with the editor of the magazine Toveshe said, "I always thought I would be dead by the age of Henning Mankell 's grief and guilt over her death swayed him from writing the last two novels of his projected Linda Wallander trilogy, and published a final novel focused on Kurt, before his own death in The character of Linda Wallander did not appear in the second Wallander series produced for Swedish TV: as another main character had just been written out because of suicide, Linda was "kept" off-screen, but said to be working elsewhere.
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