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Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938)[1] is a Norwegian actress.[2] Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.[3][4][5] She acted in many of his films, including Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978).

Liv Ullmann

(1938-12-16) 16 December 1938

Norwegian

Actress, director, screenwriter

1957–Present

Hans Jakob Stang
(m. 1960; div. 1965)
Donald Richard Saunders
(m. 1985; div. 1995)

Ingmar Bergman (1965–1970)

Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants [6] and has been nominated for another four.[6] In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless.[7][2] She has received two BAFTA Award nominations,[8] and two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for The Emigrants [9] and Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face.[9] On March 25, 2022, Ullmann was presented with an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her "bravery and emotional transparency that has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals".[9][10][11]

Early life[edit]

Ullmann was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Norwegian parents, Erik Viggo Ullmann (1907–1945), an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time, and Janna Erbe (née Lund; 1910–1996).


Her grandfather was sent to the Dachau concentration camp during World War II for helping Jews escape from the town where he lived in Norway; he died in this camp.[12] When she was two years old, the family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where her father worked at the Norwegian air force base on Toronto Island (in Lake Ontario) during the Second World War.[13] The family moved to New York, where four years later, her father died after a lengthy hospitalization from head injuries due to being struck by an airplane propeller, his death affecting her greatly.[13][14] Her mother worked as a bookseller, while raising two daughters.[15] They eventually moved to Norway, settling in Trondheim.[16]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

As actress

1984: , Freedom from Want

Four Freedoms Laureate

2006:

Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award

2006: won its director Torill Kove the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards.

The Danish Poet

2010: 2010 Award [40]

FIAF

2012: for Outstanding Contribution to International Cinema

International Indian Film Academy Awards

Honors

List of film and television directors

List of theatre directors in the 20th-21st centuries

List of Norwegian actors

List of Norwegian writers

Robert Emmet Long, ed. (2006). Liv Ullmann: Interviews. . ISBN 1-57806-823-1, 1-57806-824-X (paper). Collected interviews with Ullmann.

University Press of Mississippi

David Outerbridge (1979). Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-Biography. New York City: . ISBN 0-688-03441-1.

William Morrow and Company

Liv Ullmann (1977). . New York City: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-41148-X. Autobiography.

Changing

Liv Ullmann (1984). Choices. New York: . ISBN 0-394-53986-9. ISBN 978-0-394-53986-7. Autobiography.

Knopf

at the Internet Broadway Database

Liv Ullmann

at IMDb

Liv Ullmann

at the TCM Movie Database

Liv Ullmann

collected news and commentary at The New York Times

Liv Ullmann

on Charlie Rose

Liv Ullmann

Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine

The Guardian/NFT interview with Shane Danielson, 23 January 2001

Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 9 February 2001

Peter Bradshaw review of Trolösa

on YouTube

A 1980 Interview for the Yugoslav Television