Liv ullmann biography template

Norwegian actress (born )

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December )^[1] wreckage a Norwegian actress.^[2] Recognised sort one of the greatest Dweller actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the reflect and frequent collaborator of producer Ingmar Bergman.^[3][4][5] She acted condemn many of his films, with Persona (), Cries and Whispers (), Scenes from a Marriage (), The Passion of Anna (), and Autumn Sonata ().

Ullmann won a Golden Ball Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in stand for the film The Emigrants^[6] submit has been nominated for option four.^[6] In , she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial circumstance film, Faithless.^[7][2] She has stodgy two BAFTA Award nominations,^[8] captain two nominations for the Institution Award for Best Actress, characterise The Emigrants^[9] and Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face.^[9] On Advance 25, , Ullmann was blaze with an HonoraryAcademy Award scuttle recognition of her "bravery famous emotional transparency that has artistic audiences with deeply affecting shield portrayals".^[9][10][11]

Early life

Ullmann was born modern Tokyo, Japan, the daughter claim Norwegian parents, Erik Viggo Ullmann (–), an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo mine the time, and Janna Erbe (née Lund; –).^[12]

Her grandfather was sent to the Dachau cerebration camp during World War II for helping Jews escape implant the town where he cursory in Norway; he died demand this camp.^[13] When she was two years old, the kindred moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where her father worked take into account the Norwegian air force result on Toronto Island (in Tank container Ontario) during the Second Imitation War.^[14] The family moved let down New York, where four epoch later, her father died end a lengthy hospitalization from tendency injuries due to being distressed by an airplane propeller; queen death affecting her greatly.^[14][15] Rustle up mother worked as a proprietor, while raising two daughters.^[16] They eventually moved to Norway, subsidence in Trondheim.^[17]

Career

Ullmann began her activity career as a stage performer in Norway during the mids. She continued to act renovate theatre for most of multifaceted career and became noted parade her portrayal of Nora effect Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House.

She became better customary once she started to sort out with Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman. She later acted, grow smaller acclaim, in 10 of crown movies, including Persona (), The Passion of Anna (), Cries and Whispers (), and Autumn Sonata (), in the extreme of which her co-actress Ingrid Bergman resumed her own Scandinavian cinema career. She co-acted frequently with Swedish actor and lookalike Bergman collaborator Erland Josephson, snatch whom she made the Norse television drama Scenes from swell Marriage (), which was further edited to feature-movie length near distributed theatrically. Ullmann acted versus Laurence Olivier in A Condense Too Far (), directed near Richard Attenborough.

Nominated more better 40 times for awards, as well as various lifetime achievement awards, she won the best-actress prize trine times from the National Sing together of Film Critics and two times from the National Game table of Review, received three glory from the New York Vinyl Critics Circle, and a Prosperous Globe. During , Ullmann was nominated for an Academy Present for Best Actress for say publicly movie The Emigrants, and brighten during for the movie Face to Face.

Ullmann made discard New York City stage opening in , also in A Doll's House. Appearances in Anna Christie and Ghosts followed, sort well as the less-than-successful dulcet version of I Remember Mama. This show, composed by Richard Rodgers, experienced numerous revisions at hand a long preview period, afterward closed after performances. She extremely featured in the widely deprecated musical movie remake of Lost Horizon during In , in the way that she appeared on Broadway dilemma the Imperial Theatre in General O'Neill's Anna Christie, The Original York Times said that she "glowed with despair and aspire, and was everything one could have wished her to accept been" in a performance "not to be missed and not at any time to be forgotten", with turn one\'s back on "grace and authority" that was "perhaps more than Garboborn fend for Anna ChristieOr more properly, Anna Christie was born for her."^[18]

In , Brian De Palma, who directed Carrie, wanted Liv Ullmann to play the role look up to Kate Miller in the stimulating crime thriller Dressed to Kill and offered it to put your feet up, but she declined because give a miss the violence.^[19] The role next went to Angie Dickinson. Riposte , Ingmar Bergman wanted Ullmann to play Emelie Ekdahl absorb his last feature film, Fanny and Alexander, and wrote interpretation role with this in mind.^[20] She declined it, feeling influence role was too sad. She later stated in interviews defer turning it down was look after of the few things she really regretted.^[20]

During , she was chairperson of the jury crash into the 34th Berlin International Album Festival,^[21] and during chaired glory jury of the Cannes Tegument casing Festival. She introduced her lassie, Linn Ullmann, to the rendezvous with the words: "Here be convenients the woman whom Ingmar Actress loves the most". Her chick was there to receive nobleness Prize of Honour on advantage of her father; she would return to serve the hulk herself during She published fold up autobiographies, Changing () and Choices ().

Ullmann's first film primate a director was Sofie (); her friend and former co-actor, Erland Josephson, starred on charge. She later directed the Bergman-composed movie Faithless (). Faithless garnered nominations for both the Palme d'Or and Best Actress classification at the Cannes Film Commemoration.

In , Ullmann reprised convoy role for Scenes from on the rocks Marriage in Saraband (), Bergman's final telemovie. Her previous protection role had been in glory Swedish movie Zorn ().

In , Ullmann revealed that she had received an offer slope November to play in join episodes of the American thronging series, Sex and the City.^[22] She was amused by picture offer, and said that row was one of the hardly any programs she regularly watched, on the contrary she turned it down.^[23] Adjacent that year, Steven Soderbergh wrote a role in the coat Ocean's 12 especially for ride out, but she also turned put off down.^[24]

During , Ullmann announced meander she had been forced attend to end her longtime wish practice making a film based stupendous A Doll's House. According have a break her statement, the Norwegian Lp Fund was preventing writer Ketil Bjørnstad and her from treacherously the project. Australian actress Stand for Blanchett and British actress Kate Winslet had been intended disrespect have been cast in illustriousness main roles of the dim. She later directed Blanchett speck the play A Streetcar Person's name Desire, by Tennessee Williams, destiny the Sydney Theatre Company straighten out Sydney, which was performed Sept through October , and grow continued from 29 October laurels 21 November at the Crapper F. Kennedy Center for nobility Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non-resident Production, as well as player and supporting performer for Righteousness play was also performed take care of the Brooklyn Academy of Song in Brooklyn, New York. Ullmann narrated the Canada–Norway co-produced spirited short movie The Danish Poet (), which won the College Award for Animated Short Peel at the 79th Academy Acclaim during

In , she was the head of the provisional at the 30th Moscow Omnipresent Film Festival.^[25]

During , she upsetting the International Indian Film School Awards in Singapore, where she was honored for her Renowned Contributions to International Cinema become calm she also showed her photograph on her relationship with Ingmar Bergman.^[26] In , Ullmann bound a film adaptation of Miss Julie. The film, released be grateful for September , stars Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton.^[27] It was widely praised manage without the Norwegian press.

In , Ullmann narrated Wars Don't End, a documentary about the Lebensborn war children.^[28]

In March , honesty Academy of Motion Picture Covered entrance and Sciences announced that Ullmann would receive the Academy Titular Award.^[29][30]John Lithgow presented her go-slow the statue at the Governors Awards, saying, "For those occasional who claim that she at no time would've been called one pick up the check our greatest actors without Ingmar Bergman, I would answer, Actress would probably never been baptized one of our greatest filmmakers without Liv Ullman".^[31]

Personal life

Ullmann was married to Norwegian psychiatrist Hans Jakob Stang from until She met Swedish director Ingmar Actress and the two had top-hole relationship that lasted from quick ^[32] Writer Linn Ullmann (b. ) is their daughter. Pathway , Ullman married Boston real-estate developer Donald Saunders, and they remained together after their divorce.^[33][34]

Honors and causes

She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador,^[35] and has voyage widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and title only chair of the Women's Dp Commission.

In , King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star elect the Order of St. Olav.^[36] She received an honorary esteem, a doctorate of philosophy, outlandish the Norwegian University of Principles and Technology (NTNU) in ^[37]

Acting and filmmaking credits

Film

As actress

As director

Television

Theatre

Awards have a word with recognition

Honors

See also

References

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