Ingrid Bergman

Known For

Acting

Born

Aug 29, 1915

Died

Aug 29, 1982

Place of Birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Credits

138 titles

Ingrid Bergman

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.

Known For

Filmography

2025

Two Bergmans

Self speaking English / Self speaking Italian (archival footage)

Movie
2025

Sverige och kriget

Self (archive footage)

Tv
2024

Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2022

Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe

Movie
2022

Becoming Marilyn

(archive footage)

Movie
2021

The Rossellinis

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2020

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Movie
2020

Beautiful Like a Poem

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2019

Julie Andrews Forever

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2017

Becoming Cary Grant

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2017

The Fabulous Allan Carr

Self (archive)

Movie
2017

Hitler's Hollywood

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Movie
2016

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

Movie
2015

Viva Ingrid!

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2015

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2013

Talking Pictures

Self (archive footage)

Tv
2012

The War of the Volcanoes

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2009

Hollywood sul Tevere

Movie
2009

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2008

Warner at War

(archive footage)

Movie
2008

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali

Self (Archive Footage)

Movie
2006

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2005

Året var 1955

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003

Reflections on 'Gaslight'

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003

As Time Goes By: The Children Remember

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003

Un film et son époque

Self (archive footage)

Tv
2002

Heart of the Festival

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2001

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2001

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2000

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1999

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1998

Glorious Technicolor

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
1998

Rossellini Under the Volcano

Karen (archive footage)

Movie
1997

Bogart: The Untold Story

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1996

Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain

Self - actress, wife

Movie
1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1996

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1995

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

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

Movie
1995

Stjärnbilder

(archive footage)

Movie
1995

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1994

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage)

Movie
1993

Intimate Portrait

Self (archive footage)

Tv
1993

Minns ni?

(archive footage)

Movie
1993

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1992

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1990

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1988

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1988

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Self (archive footage)

Movie
1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Movie