Liv Ullmann
Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter · Norway · On the map · Actors · Born 1938 · age 87
She spent five years as Ingmar Bergman's partner and decades as his most essential actor - the face through which he explored marriage, madness, and the limits of what a close-up could hold.
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Liv Ullmann: A Road Less TravelledSeries
Songs of EarthFilm, 2023Producer2022Academy Honorary AwardAward2018
Bergman: A Year in a LifeFilm2016Haugesund Walk of FameAward2014
I Am DivineFilm2012Oslo City Culture AwardAward2010
MasterclassSeries2009Telenor Culture AwardAward2006
The Danish PoetFilm, Narrator (voice)2004European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema AwardAward2001South Trøndelag county Culture AwardAward2000
FaithlessFilm, Director1998
Ein Herz für KinderSeries1997Arts Council Norway Honorary AwardAwardHonorar Citizen of TrondheimAward1995Den Spillende FaunAward1992The Amanda Committee's Honorary AwardAward1991
MindwalkFilm, Sonia Hoffman1987Trondheim Municipality Culture AwardAward1985Medal of honor Dag HammarskjoldAward1984
Dangerous MovesFilm, Marina Fromm1983JennySeries, Jenny Winge1977
A Bridge Too FarFilm, Kate ter Horst1976
Face to FaceSeries, Jenny Isaksson1975
LeonorFilm, Leonor1973Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAwardPeer Gynt Literary AwardAward
Scenes from a MarriageSeries, 1973Marianne
40 CaratsFilm, 1973Ann Stanley1971
The EmigrantsFilm, Kristina1969
The Passion of AnnaFilm, Anna Fromm1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries1966
PersonaFilm, Elisabet Vogler1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1957
Fools in the MountainsFilm, Hotel Guest (uncredited)1955Was bin ich?Series1948
BambiSeries1938Born16 December 1938People around Liv
Ingmar Bergman Directed Persona and Cries and Whispers
Max von Sydow Also in The Emigrants and Shame
Erland Josephson Liv directed Faithless and Sofie
Jan Troell Directed The Emigrants and The New Land
Bibi Andersson Also in Persona and The Passion of Anna
Hans Alfredson Also in Shame, The New Land and The Emigrants- Edith Carlmar Directed Young Sinners (1959)
Otto Carlmar Produced Young Sinners (1959)
Ingrid Bergman Liv produced Cries and Whispers (1973)
Sven Nykvist Directed The Ox (1991)
Lena Endre Liv directed Faithless and Kristin Lavransdatter
Gunnar Björnstrand Also in Persona, Autumn Sonata and Shame
Allan Edwall Also in Hour of the Wolf and The Emigrants
Anthony Harvey Directed The Abdication and Richard's Things
Henning Moritzen Liv produced Cries and Whispers (1973)
Thomas Hanzon Liv directed Faithless and Private Confessions
Maximilian Schell Also in A Bridge Too Far and Pope Joan
Peter Finch Also in The Abdication and Man's Fate
Michel Piccoli Produced Léonor (1977)
László Benedek Directed The Night Visitor (1973)
Juan Luis Buñuel Directed Léonor (1977), directed Leonor (1975)
Kristina Adolphson Liv directed Private Confessions (1996)
Kari Sylwan Liv produced Cries and Whispers (1973)
David Lynch Succeeded Liv as President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival
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Scenes from a Marriage 1974
Persona 1966
Autumn Sonata 1978
Cries and Whispers 1972
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 21
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Liv Johanne Ullmann was born 16 December 1938 in Norway and became one of European cinema's most fearless performers. Her collaboration with Ingmar Bergman began with Persona in 1966 and continued through The Passion of Anna, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, and Autumn Sonata - films that leaned hard on her ability to let a camera see everything. She earned two Oscar nominations, for The Emigrants in 1972 and Bergman's Face to Face, and won a Golden Globe for the former. Later she moved behind the camera: her 2000 film Faithless competed for the Palme d'Or. In March 2022 the Academy gave her an honorary Oscar for what they called "bravery and emotional transparency" - a clinical way of saying she never hid.
