Cast

Ingrid Bergman

Acting

Cast

Ingrid Bergman

Known for

Acting

Born

1915-08-29

From

Stockholm, Sweden

Died

1982-08-29

Biography

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. 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.

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Biography

Casablanca

Murder on the Orient Express

Autumn Sonata

Gaslight

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

Glorious Technicolor

Notorious

Spellbound

That's Entertainment! III

Langlois

Rage in Heaven

Heart of the Festival

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Cactus Flower

Joan of Arc

Viva Ingrid!

Under Capricorn

The Chicken

Elena and Her Men

Intermezzo

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Two Bergmans

On the Sunny Side

The War of the Volcanoes

Joan of Arc at the Stake

Warner at War

Stromboli

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

The Visit

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Journey to Italy

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Auguste

The Bells of St. Mary's

Breakdowns of 1944

Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe

A Woman Called Golda

Goodbye Again

A Matter of Time

Becoming Cary Grant

The Human Voice

Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test

Anastasia

Santa Brigida

Ersatz

Europa '51

The Turn of the Screw

A Woman's Face

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Fear

Arch of Triumph

The Fabulous Allan Carr

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Swedes in America

Saratoga Trunk

We, the Women

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Bogart: The Untold Story

Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes

Adam Had Four Sons

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Indiscreet

Julie Andrews Forever

Hitler's Hollywood

Hollywood sul Tevere

Becoming Marilyn

Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

A Tradition of Romance

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Beautiful Like a Poem

A Walk in the Spring Rain

Walpurgis Night

Hollywood: The Selznick Years