Mona Malm got her breakthrough at the Royal Dramatic Theater in 1957 as "Tintomara" in Almqvist's 'Drottningens juvelsmycke', directed by
Alf Sjöberg. She played "Martha" in
Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1985) and the title role in
Hjalmar Bergman's 'Chefen fru Ingeborg' (1993). She appeared in such films as
Fanny and Alexander (1982) (as
Jarl Kulle's tolerant wife) and
The Best Intentions (1992).