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Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Birthday: 1915-08-29 | Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant. Before becoming a star in American films, she had already been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her first introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English remake of Intermezzo in 1939. In America, she brought to the screen a "Nordic freshness and vitality", along with extreme beauty and intelligence, and according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, she quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and one of Hollywood's greatest leading actresses. Her producer David O. Selznick, who called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with, gave her a seven-year acting contract, thereby assuring her continual stardom. A few of her other starring roles, besides Casablanca, included For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949), and the independent production, Joan of Arc (1948). In 1950, after a decade of stardom in American films, she starred in the Italian film Stromboli, which led to a love affair with director Roberto Rossellini while they were both already married. The affair created a scandal that forced her to return to Europe until 1956, when she made a successful Hollywood comeback in Anastasia, for which she won her second Academy Award, as well as the forgiveness of her fans. Many of her personal and film documents can be seen in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ingrid Bergman , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
The Rossellinis

as    Self (archive footage)

2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

as    Self (archive footage)

1995
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

as    Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)

1982
A Woman Called Golda

as    Golda Meir

1978
Autumn Sonata

as    Charlotte Andergast

1974
Murder on the Orient Express

as    Greta Ohlson

1970
A Walk in the Spring Rain

as    Libby Meredith

1969
Cactus Flower

as    Stephanie Dickinson

1965
The Love Goddesses

as    (archive footage)

1965
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

as    Gerda Millett

1964
The Visit

as    Karla Zachanassian

1959
The Turn of the Screw

as    Governess

1958
Indiscreet

as    Anna Kalman

1958
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

as    Gladys Aylward

1956
Anastasia

as    Anna Koreff / Anastasia

1956
Elena and Her Men

as    Elena Sokorowska

1954
Fear

as    Irène Wagner

1950
Stromboli

as    Karin

1949
Under Capricorn

as    Lady Henrietta Flusky

1948
Joan of Arc

as    Joan of Arc

1946
Notorious

as    Alicia Huberman

1945
Saratoga Trunk

as    Clio Dulaine

1945
Spellbound

as    Dr. Constance Petersen

1945
The Bells of St. Mary's

as    Sister Mary Benedict

1944
Gaslight

as    Paula Alquist

1943
Casablanca

as    Ilsa Lund

1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls

as    Maria

1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as    Ivy Peterson