Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), died from cancer she was , 66.

Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman  was a Swedish film and stage actress  died from cancer she was , 66..

(23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011)

Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964) and got her breakthrough in his I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967), where she, in pseudo-documentary fashion, played a character of the same name as herself, and its sequel I Am Curious (Blue) (1968). She later participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, such as Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975) and The Adventures of Picasso (1978). Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978).
In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus,^[1] and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Award.^[2]
Nyman died on 4 February 2011, aged 66, after a long battle with several illnesses including COPD and Guillain–Barré syndrome.^[3]

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