Actress. She gained fame as a Swedish actress who was also a variety artist, screenwriter, theater director, and manager. As her professional names, the spellings Hofmann and Hoffman also appear. Her breakthrough was creating a character called "Fia Jansson" on the south side of Stockholm. She has also been named as one of Sweden's first female film directors, known for being the first to direct some of August Strindberg's work on the big screen. She was born in the exclusive Hedvig Eleonora Parish of Stockholm, but her father's identity has never been confirmed. Her mother, Emma Hammarström, had a relationship with King Oscar II of Sweden, and sources show that she was one of Oscar's extramarital daughters. She had to quit school because of rumors about her parentage. After an 1885 meeting with Oscar II, she was sent to Parris, France, at his expense. There, she was trained in singing and participated in concerts with good reviews. She went on tour to Italy around 1888 and began to use her stage name as Anna Hofman. Returning to Stockholm, she gave birth to a daughter whose father was a French Baron Ducrest. She now traveled around the Nordic countries and went to Kristiania (Oslo) in Norway in 1892 for her debut as a variety singer. She also appeared in Finland, Russia, Denmark, and the rest of Europe. She was soon one of the five highest-paid chansonettes in Sweden, earning SEK 11,000 in 1898 when less than 10 percent of the population had an annual salary of SEK 800 or more. In 1896, she gave birth to her second child, after another relationship that did not lead to marriage. She started organizing her own shows, which then was unusual for a single woman and had good relationships with the newspapers. In 1900, after the premiere of her big hit revue "The Gilded Clay Cuckoo," she met and married author and clergyman's son Gustaf Uddgren and began to call herself Hofman-Uddgren. Between 1901 and 1904, she gave birth to their three daughters, and he took on a father's role for her two oldest daughters. The Uddgrens were very successful and became very popular celebrities in Stockholm. It was not until she was pregnant with her last child, a long-awaited son, that she lost her desire to work and made more time for her family. Her husband died in 1927. She accepted an occasional performance and eventually enjoyed viewing contemporary films, including the new talkies, often in the company of grandchildren.