1915-08-29 ( 109 years old ) in Stockholm, Sweden
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four).
Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten.
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.
In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.
Movies
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
2024-11-15
The Trouble With Forgetting
2024-03-13
The Parades
2024-02-28
The Rossellinis
2021-11-19
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020-12-02
Becoming Cary Grant
2017-05-23
Hitler's Hollywood
2017-02-23
Viva Ingrid!
2015-09-09
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015-08-27
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
The War of the Volcanoes
2012-09-02
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012-03-27
Smash His Camera
2010-07-30
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009-06-29
Warner at War
2008-11-11
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006-05-27
Året var 1955
2005-01-09
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003-12-14
As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
2003-08-06
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000-09-05
Julie Andrews Forever
2000-06-14
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999-01-23
Glorious Technicolor
1998-12-07
Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998-01-01
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997-01-05
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996-04-06
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996-03-17
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995-10-08
Stjärnbilder
1995-09-10
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995-08-24
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Minns ni?
1993-10-24
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993-05-01
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990-09-10
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988-06-05
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988-03-08
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982-05-21
A Woman Called Golda
1982-04-26
Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
1981-08-20
Autumn Sonata
1978-10-08
Ersatz
1978-01-01
A Matter of Time
1976-10-07
Murder on the Orient Express
1974-11-22
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
Langlois
1970-09-19
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970-06-17
Cactus Flower
1969-12-16
Stimulantia
1967-03-28
The Human Voice
1966-08-12
The Car That Became a Star
1965-01-01
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964-12-31
The Visit
1964-05-06
Pappa Sandrew
1964-01-01
Hedda Gabler
1962-12-28
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
Auguste
1961-10-24
Goodbye Again
1961-05-23
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961-03-20
Startime: The Turn of the Screw
1959-10-20
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958-12-11
Indiscreet
1958-07-16
Anastasia
1956-12-13
Elena and Her Men
1956-09-12
Joan of Arc at the Stake
1954-12-20
Fear
1954-11-05
Journey to Italy
1954-09-07
Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
1953-11-12
We, the Women
1953-10-27
The Chicken
1953-10-22
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953-09-24
Europe '51
1952-12-04
Santa Brigida
1951-01-01
Stromboli
1950-02-15
Under Capricorn
1949-09-08
Joan of Arc
1948-12-22
Arch of Triumph
1948-02-17
Notorious
1946-08-21
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945-12-27
Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
Spellbound
1945-11-08
Breakdowns of 1944
1944-12-31
Gaslight
1944-05-04
Swedes in America
1943-11-08
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943-07-12
Casablanca
1943-01-15
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12
Adam Had Four Sons
1941-03-27
Rage in Heaven
1941-03-07
June Night
1940-04-03
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939-10-06
Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
1939-05-15
Only One Night
1939-02-20
A Woman's Face
1938-10-31
The Four Companions
1938-10-01
Dollar
1938-09-05
Cat Across the Road
1937-08-30
Intermezzo
1936-11-16
On the Sunny Side
1936-02-03
Walpurgis Night
1935-10-23
Swedenhielms
1935-04-08
Ocean Breakers
1935-02-17
The Count of the Old Town
1935-01-21
National match
1932-03-29
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