Kristina Wayborn

What I find quietly admirable about Kristina Wayborn is the sheer nerve of the journey. Born Britt-Inger Johansson in a small corner of Sweden's Kalmar County, she went from athletics and beauty pageants to building an acting career in Britain and the United States, far from anything familiar. Reinventing yourself in a foreign film industry, in a second language, takes a particular kind of steel that rarely gets celebrated. She is not a household name, but she belongs to that hardy generation of Scandinavian talents who simply packed up and bet on themselves abroad. I respect that understated, self-made trajectory.

Name (English)

Kristina Wayborn

Name (Japanese)

クリスティナ・ウェイボーン

Reading

くりすてぃな・うぇいぼーん

Born

September 24, 1950 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Origin

Nybro, Kalmar County, Sweden

Occupation

actor / athletics competitor / model / beauty pageant contestant / film actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Kalmar County
• actor
• athletics competitor
• model

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.