Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), Swedish actress, born in Stockholm, where she was educated at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School. She quickly became a star in Swedish films. Her performance in Intermezzo (1936), her 11th film, brought her to the attention of American film producers, and she went on to star in the English-language version of the film in 1939. She appeared in more than a score of American and European films over the next three decades, including Casablanca (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Saratoga Trunk (1943), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Stromboli (1949), Paris Does Strange Things (1956), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), Cactus Flower (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978). For her performances in The Murder in Thornton Square (1944; US title Gaslight), Anastasia (1956), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974) she received Academy Awards (Oscars). Bergman acted on the stage in New York in Liliom (1940), Joan of Lorraine (1946), More Stately Mansions (1967), and Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1972), as well as in many European stage productions.

Despite a lapse in popularity due to her relationship with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (who subsequently became her second husband)—she appeared in six of his films—she returned to public favour. Her autobiography, Ingrid Bergman: My Story, was published in 1980. She received an Emmy in 1982, shortly before her death, for her final performance, as Golda Meir, in the TV film A Woman Called Golda.