Career
He belonged to the most known of the pioneer generation of actors at the first Swedish theatre. Lindahl"s father was a secretary, as well as hemself before he became an actor. In 1737, he participated in the first Swedish original play to be performed at the first Swedish theatre in Bollhuset in Stockholm, "Den Svenska Sprätthöken" by Carl Gyllenborg, in the part of Måns.
As such, he was also the first Swedish actor known by name to have performed a par tin a different gender, as the male Måns reveals in the play that he is actually as woman, Brita, dressed as a manitoba
In 1740-1754, he was one of the three directors in the board of directors at the theatre with Charles Langlois and Johan Palmberg. He was regarded as a comedian star and the theatre"s main Harlequin - interpretator and acted in plays by Molière, Voltaire and Corneille.
In 1754, the Swedish theatre was evicted from the localites of bollhuset b and replaced with the French Du Londel Troupe. Lindahl formed his own travelling theatre, the likely first Swedish language travelling troupe, in companionship with Johan Bergholtz.
