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Ian wrote:katka was kidding that you were taking away her kudos by showing how she gets these vids when we can't, Magnus.
Even I got that.
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TRIBUTE TO A MOONBEAM
Imagine if you were the following character from a book or film:
Born to radical-lifestyle leaning parents, with your mother just turned eighteen. Frequent moves in your early life from town to town, with your parents separating a year after your birth. Your acting career commences aged nine in a TV series. You continue balancing schoolwork and theatre acting. You set up home for yourself aged fifteen, in your country’s capital city. By this time another two film roles behind you, one of which is the lead. At sixteen you quit school to co-star in a feature film for which you a jointly awarded Best Actor by your country’s national film academy.
In the next four years you write for magazines, make personal appearances and you star in another six films and/or TV series. This includes your first role in an internationally acclaimed film. You then suddenly stop acting as a career, return to high school in adult education classes. You pass examinations with flying colours, master computer programming among other skills, and enrol at university. You achieve your new ambition and qualify as a medical doctor, specialising in pediatrics. In between times you are still active in feminist and radical political circles. During this time you have become married, and given birth to your own three children.
And all of this before the age of thirty! Would you find it believable?
Well this is no fictional story, it is the true life of Rebecka Månstråle (Moonbeam) Liljeberg , born May 13th 1981. [sometimes credited as Rebecca Liljeberg]. If you live outside Sweden, it is possible you might ask ‘who is Rebecka Liljeberg?’ but within Sweden, she is considered a national treasure. These notes are a tribute to Rebecka.
I guess all of us hope to lead happy and fulfilling lives. Likewise, I believe most of us at some time feel our achievements fall short on our ambitions. Rebecka is a fine example of just what can be attained when we put our minds to it. Without the benefit of family contacts in the industry, the determination she learned at her mother’s knee paid dividends. Natural talent amplified by sheer will-power. Not all of us get the same opportunities to prove ourselves in life. It is also inspiringly typical of Rebecka that she acknowledges her good fortune. Her life is now personally dedicated to her own family, and professionally to the most vulnerable in society: helping heal sick children.
She has never ruled out a return to acting at some point in the future, but it is probably unlikely if ever. It would be sad, but understandable, if we did not see her talents applied again to the world of entertainment. The story of child actors and burnout is all too commonplace. Rebecka chose to make a completely tangential move while her artistic career had reached a high-point. In her all-too-brief meteoric career in acting, she has left us with a lasting legacy of acutely observed performance. Her moonbeam continues to glow down on us.
Rebecca Liljeberg, actor, now more commonly recognised as Dr Rebecka Liljeberg.
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