Do Marie Fredriksson and Paul Stanley originate from the same country?
Marie Fredriksson Gun-Marie Fredriksson, known as    (born 30 May 1958), is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for forming one half of the pop rock duo Roxette, which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986. She and Gessle achieved international success from the late 1980s to the early 1990s with a total of six top 10 US hit songs such as "It Must Have Been Love," "Listen to Your Heart," "The Look," "Joyride," and "Dangerous." In 2002, after fainting at home, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. During her rehabilitation she continued to make music, resulting in the album "The Change." She later reunited with Gessle to record more Roxette albums, embarked on worldwide tour and continued to record as a solo artist in her native Sweden.
Marie Richardson Marie Elisabet Richardson (born 6 June 1959) is a Swedish stage and film actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from 1982 to 1985 and has been employed by The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm ever since. Richardson has been very active in both films, television production as well as on stage for 30 years. She has two children with Jakob Eklund, also an actor.