In 1998, the Swedish Union for Theatre, Artists and Media awarded her their Gold Medal for her "exceptional artistic accomplishments".Has a daughter: Lotta Hammar.The last four New-years-eves of her life, she declamed the poem "Nyårsklockorna" at Skansen in Stockholm.Had an extremely good memory: she only had to read a manuscript once to remember it.After her death, a journalist wrote: "The only role that she didn't really managed to play was the role as herself".A statue of her is erected outside Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater - in the corner where she often stood smoking.