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Elsie Albiin

actress (1921-2009)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4934792 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elsie Albiin (17 December 1921 – 3 April 2009) was a Swedish actress born in Helsingborg. She appeared in several films, including 1953's Intimate Relations. She was a widow for the last eleven years of her life. Her husband was Tony Ford.

She lived in Lyngby, close to her children's family.

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“Elsie Albiin” enters the record as actress (1921-2009). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Elsie, Albiin and actress can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2009, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-12-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Elsie, Albiin and actress.
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Why this record matters

“Elsie Albiin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Elsie, Albiin and actress provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4934792. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2009 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elsie Albiin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.