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Ingrid Bergman
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Bergman in 1944
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| Born | August 29, 1915 Stockholm, Sweden
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| Died | August 29, 1982 (aged 67) London, England
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| Resting place | Norra Begravningsplatsen, Stockholm |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1932–1982 |
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Notable work
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Petter Lindström
(m. 1937; div. 1950)Lars Schmidt
(m. 1958; div. 1975) |
| Children | 4, including Pia Lindström and Isabella Rossellini |
| Awards | Full list |
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Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. Her career lasted five decades, and she is thought of as one of the most famous actresses in history.
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Early life
Ingrid Bergman was born on August 29, 1915, in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, and his German wife, Frieda "Friedel" Henriette Auguste Louise (née Adler) Bergman, who was born in Kiel. Ingrid was named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden. Although she was raised in Sweden, she spent her summers in Germany and spoke fluent German.
Ingrid's mother died when she was two and a half years old, and her father died when she was about 14. Before his death, Justus had been a photographer and took many photos of his daughter. Ingrid had taken voice lessons for three years and loved to be in front of a camera.
After her father died, Ingrid went to live with aunts and uncles. She later received a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic Theatre School. During her first summer break, however, Bergman was hired by a Swedish film studio and she began to work in films full-time.
Bergman spoke Swedish and German as first languages, English and Italian (learned later, while living in the U.S. and Italy), and French (learned in school). She acted in each of these languages at various times.
Career
Bergman's first film experience was in Sweden in 1935. She began as an extra and worked her way up to starring in movies. She was able to show off her talent by playing many characters with different types of personalities. Her most famous Swedish films are Intermezzo and En kvinnas ansikte (A Woman's Face). She appeared in eleven films in her native Sweden before the age of twenty-five.
In 1939, Hollywood producer David O. Selznick invited Ingrid to move to Hollywood to star in the American remake Intermezzo. The film became an enormous success and as a result, Bergman became a star. She had a natural beauty and wore less makeup than other actresses. She continued to star in Hollywood movies until 1949. Her most famous roles were Ilsa in Casablanca, Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Paula in Gaslight.
From 1950 to 1955, Bergman left Hollywood to make films with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She returned to Hollywood in 1956 to star in Anastasia. Bergman continued to star in Hollywood films and television productions. Many of her films were shown in England and France as well. Her most famous movies in her later career were Anastasia (1956), Autumn Sonata (1978), Murder on the Orient Express, and Cactus Flower (1969).
Bergman acted in stage plays throughout her career. Usually, the plays were at the West End, a theater in London, England.
Bergman's last movie was Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten). She received her seventh Academy Award nomination for her part in the movie. The movie was filmed in Norway while Bergman was battling cancer.
In 1982, Bergman played the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in a television mini-series, A Woman Called Golda. It was her final acting role, and she was honored posthumously with a second Emmy Award for Best Actress.
Awards
Ingrid Bergman became the second actress to win three Academy Awards for acting: two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress. She also won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
Personal Life
Marriages and children
On July 10, 1937, at the age of 21, in Stöde, Bergman married a dentist, Petter Aron Lindström, who later became a neurosurgeon. The couple had one child, a daughter, Friedel Pia Lindström (born September 20, 1938).
Bergman divorced Lindström in 1950 to marry the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The couple had 3 children: a boy, Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe ("Robin") Rossellini (born February 2, 1950), and twin daughters Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini (born June 18, 1952). Isabella became an actress and model, and Isotta Ingrid became a professor of Italian literature. Bergman's marriage with Rossellini experienced several problems and eventually ended in divorce in 1957.
On December 21, 1958, Bergman married Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy Swedish shipping family. The couple divorced in 1975.
Activism
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During a press conference in Washington, D.C., she protested to the newspapers about racial segregation in the United States.
Bergman went to Alaska during World War II to entertain US Army troops. Soon after the war ended, she also went to Europe for the same purpose.
Illness and Death
Bergman was diagnosed with cancer in 1974. She underwent surgeries and chemotherapy but continued to work until 1981. She passed away in London on Autust 29, 1982. Her ex-husband Lars Schmidt was there with her. A memorial service was held in Saint Martin-in-the-Fields church in October with twelve hundred mourners in attendance.
Ingrid Bergman was cremated at a private funeral ceremony attended only by close relatives and five friends. After cremation at Kensal Green Cemetery (London), her ashes were taken to Sweden.
Legacy
In 1980, Alan Burgess helped Bergman write her autobiography, Ingrid Bergman: My Story. She decided to write it after her son warned her that she would only be known through rumors and interviews if she did not tell her own story.
In 1983, stars, friends, and family came to Venice Film Festival to honor Bergman on the first anniversary of her death. They feasted for five days while remembering Bergman and the legacy she left behind.
A bust of Bergman has been placed outside the Lisner Auditorium, in recognition of her protest of racial segregation.
Wesleyan University hosts the "Ingrid Bergman Collection" of Bergman's personal papers, scripts, awards, portraits, photos, scrapbooks, costumes, legal papers, financial records, stills, clippings and memorabilia.
Ingrid Bergman quotes
- "I was perhaps the most photographed child in Scandinavia."
- "I am an actress, and I am interested in acting, not in making money."
- "The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going."
- "No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul."
Interesting facts about Ingrid Bergman
- Ingrid Bergman and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman were not related, but they worked together on some movies.
- She starred in over 50 films throughout her career.
- She was known for her versatility as an actress.
- She was also known for her natural beauty.
- She was fluent in several languages, including Swedish, English, German, Italian, and French.
- Ingrid Bergman worked with Alfred Hitchcock.
- She made history by becoming the first actress to receive an Academy Award for a foreign-language role in the film Gaslight.
- She actively supported organizations such as UNICEF and worked tirelessly to help those in need.
- In recognition of her contribution to the arts and her humanitarian efforts, Ingrid Bergman was posthumously awarded the highest civilian honor in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
See also
In Spanish: Ingrid Bergman para niños
- List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
- List of Academy Award records – first Nordic to win for acting, in Gaslight (1944)
- List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for non-English performances – nominated for Best Actress, in Autumn Sonata (1978)
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Images for kids
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Bergman in 1939
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Ingrid Bergman in Notorious. American film critic Dan Callahan called Bergman "The great female Hitchcock actor".
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Bergman in a magazine photo shoot in the 1940s
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Bergman in 1941
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Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, her most famous role.
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Bergman with director Victor Fleming at the premiere of Joan of Arc (1949)
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Bergman in the film Stromboli
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Bergman as Irene Girard in Europa '51
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Bergman in Fear (1955)
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In Anastasia (1956) which won her second Oscar
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With Mel Ferrer in Renoir's Elena and Her Men (1956)
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Grant and Bergman in Indiscreet (1958)
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Bergman in 1960
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Ingrid Bergman with her three children by Rossellini, in 1963, on the filming set of The Visit.
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Bergman with Gustaf Molander, who directed her in Stimulantia
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Bergman with third husband, theatre producer, Lars Schmidt
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Bergman in The Constant Wife
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Bergman's last performance in A Woman Called Golda won her an Emmy posthumously]]
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Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant had a close friendship, and he accepted her Academy Award on her behalf for her role in Anastasia at the 29th Academy Awards ceremony.
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Bergman's grave at Norra Begravningsplatsen
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Bergman's former residence in Choisel, where she lived with Lars Schmidt in the 60s
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