Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother. She started her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to Americans came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo. Her notable performances from the 1940s include For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gaslight, The Bells of St. Mary’s and Joan of Arc.
About Ingrid Bergman in brief
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother. She started her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to Americans came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo. Her notable performances from the 1940s include For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gaslight, The Bells of St. Mary’s, and Joan of Arc. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognized Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. In her final acting role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television mini-series A Woman Called Golda for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. Bergman died on her sixty-seventh birthday from breast cancer. She is considered to have brought a Nordic freshness and vitality to the screen, along with exceptional beauty and intelligence. David O. Selznick once called her “the most completely conscientious actress’ he had ever worked with. In 1978, she worked with director Ingmar Bergman in Autumn Sonata, forwhich she received her sixth Academy Award nomination for Best actress. She was married to Italian director Roberto Rossellini for six years. She died of breast cancer on her 60th birthday in 1994, at the age of 83. She had a daughter with her second husband, Ingmar, and a son with her third husband, Peter Bergman, who died of heart disease in 1998. She also had a stepson with her first husband, Otto Otto Bergman.
She acted in each of these languages, as well as French, English and Italian, and learned to speak German and French as well. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA Award. Her career spanned 50 years, and she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in film history. She suffered a succession of crucial losses in her infancy and childhood, which may have been experienced as abandonment. When she was two or three years old, her mother died. She later said she wanted to be an actress, sometimes wearing her deceased mother’s clothing and staging plays in her father’s studio. In 1929, when she was 13, her father died of stomach cancer. Losing her parents at such a tender age was a trauma to Bergman who later described as \”living with an ache\”, an experience she was not even aware of. She lived with her maternal aunt, who also lived six months later with her other aunt, Elsa Adler, who had five children of their own. She received a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic School, where she acted in various languages, including French, German, and Italian. In 1950, she starred in RobertoRossellini’s Stromboli, following the revelation that she was having an extramarital affair with the director. She made a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia, winning her second Academy Award for best Actress.
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