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Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938)[1] is a Norwegian actress. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent partner of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.[2][3] 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
Ullman at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014
Born	(1938-12-16) 16 December 1938 (age 83) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Norway
Occupation	Actress, director, screenwriter
Years active	1957–Present
Spouse(s)	Hans Jakob Stang ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1965)​ Donald Richard Saunders ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1995)​
Partner	Ingmar Bergman (1965–1970)
Children	Linn Ullmann

Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants (1971) and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. She has received two BAFTA Award nominations, and two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for The Emigrants (1971) and Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face (1976). 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".[4][5][6]

Early life

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).[7]

Her grandfather was sent to the Dachau concentration camp during the World War II for helping Jews escape from the town where he lived in Norway; he died in this camp.[8] 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.[9] 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.[9][10] Her mother worked as a bookseller, while raising two daughters.[11] They eventually moved to Norway, settling in Trondheim.[12]

Career

Ullmann began her acting career as a stage actress in Norway during the mid-1950s. She continued to act in theatre for most of her career and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House.

She became better known once she started to work with Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman. She later acted, with acclaim, in 10 of his movies, including Persona (1966), The Passion of Anna (1969), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Autumn Sonata (1978), in the last of which her co-actress Ingrid Bergman resumed her own Swedish cinema career. She co-acted often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator Erland Josephson, with whom she made the Swedish television drama Scenes from a Marriage (1973), which was also edited to feature-movie length and distributed theatrically. Ullmann acted with Laurence Olivier in A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough.

Nominated more than 40 times for awards, including various lifetime achievement awards, she won the best actress prize three times from the National Society of Film Critics, three times from the National Board of Review, received three awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, and a Golden Globe. During 1971, Ullmann was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie The Emigrants, and again during 1976 for the movie Face to Face.

Ullmann made her New York City stage debut in 1975 also in A Doll's House. Appearances in Anna Christie and Ghosts followed, as well as the less than successful musical version of I Remember Mama. This show, composed by Richard Rodgers, experienced numerous revisions during a long preview period, then closed after 108 performances. She also featured in the widely deprecated musical movie remake of Lost Horizon during 1973. In 1977, when she appeared on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, The New York Times said that she "glowed with despair and hope, and was everything one could have wished her to have been" in a performance "not to be missed and never to be forgotten", with her "grace and authority" that was "perhaps more than Garbo...born for Anna Christie:--Or more properly, Anna Christie was born for her."[13]

In 1980, Brian De Palma, who directed Carrie, wanted Liv Ullmann to play the role of Kate Miller in the erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill and offered it to her, but she declined because of the violence.[14] The role subsequently went to Angie Dickinson. In 1982, Ingmar Bergman wanted Ullmann to play Emelie Ekdahl in his last feature film, Fanny and Alexander, and wrote the role with this in mind.[15] She declined it, feeling the role was too sad. She later stated in interviews that turning it down was one of the few things she really regretted.[15]

During 1984, she was chairperson of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival,[16] and during 2001 chaired the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. She introduced her daughter, Linn Ullmann, to the audience with the words: "Here comes the woman whom Ingmar Bergman loves the most". Her daughter was there to receive the Prize of Honour on behalf of her father; she would return to serve the jury herself during 2011. She published two autobiographies, Changing (1977) and Choices (1984).

Ullmann's first film as a director was Sofie (1992); her friend and former co-actor, Erland Josephson, starred on it. She later directed the Bergman-composed movie Faithless (2000). Faithless garnered nominations for both the Palme d'Or and Best Actress category at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2003, Ullmann reprised her role for Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband (2003), Bergman's final telemovie. Her previous screen role had been in the Swedish movie Zorn (1994).

In 2004, Ullmann revealed that she had received an offer in November 2003 to play in three episodes of the American television series, Sex and the City.[17] She was amused by the offer, and said that it was one of the few programs she regularly watched, but she turned it down.[18] Later that year, Steven Soderbergh wrote a role in the movie Ocean's 12 especially for her, but she also turned that down.[19]

During 2006, Ullmann announced that she had been forced to end her longtime wish of making a film based on A Doll's House. According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was preventing her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project. Australian actress Cate Blanchett and British actress Kate Winslet had been cast intended in the main roles of the movie. She later directed Blanchett in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney, which was performed September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where it won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non-resident Production as well as actress and supporting performer for 2009. The play was also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York. Ullmann narrated the Canada–Norway co-produced animated short movie The Danish Poet (2006), which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards during 2007.

In 2008, she was the head of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.[20]

During 2012, she attended the International Indian Film Academy Awards in Singapore, where she was honored for her Outstanding Contributions to International Cinema and she also showed her movie on her relationship with Ingmar Bergman.[21] In 2013, Ullmann directed a film adaptation of Miss Julie. The film, released in September 2014, stars Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton.[22] It was widely praised by the Norwegian press.

In March 2022 it was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that Ullmann would receive the Academy Honorary Award.[6][23] John Lithgow presented her with the statue at the Governors Awards saying, "For those few who claim that she never would've been called one of our greatest actors without Ingmar Bergman, I would answer, Bergman would probably never been called one of our greatest filmmakers without Liv Ullman".[24]

Personal life

Marriages, relationships and children

Ullman has been married and divorced twice. Her daughter is from a relationship with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

Ullman was married in 1960 to Norwegian psychiatrist, Hans Jakob Stang, until 1965. The 25-year old Ullman's life changed focus when she met 46-year old Ingmar Bergman. Their relationship quickly moved into an affair which lasted from 1965 to 1970.[25] Writer Linn Ullmann (b. 1966) is their daughter.

Following an affair with the actor John Lithgow,[26] Ullman married Boston real estate developer Donald Saunders in 1985, and they remained together after their 1995 divorce.[27][28]

Honors and causes

She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador,[29] and has traveled widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission.

In 2005, King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav.[30]

She received an honorary degree, a Doctorate of Philosophy, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2006.[31]

Other

In addition to Norwegian, Ullmann speaks Swedish, English, and other European languages.[32]

Filmography

Film

As actress

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1957	Fools in the Mountains	Hotel Guest (uncredited extra)	Edith Carlmar
1959	The Wayward Girl	Gerd
1962	Tonny	Kari	Nils R. Müller & Per Gjersøe
1962	Kort är sommaren
1965	De kalte ham Skarven		Wilfred Breistrand Erik Folke Gustavson
1966	Persona	Elisabet Vogler	Ingmar Bergman
1968	Hour of the Wolf	Alma Borg
	Shame	Eva Rosenberg
1969	An-Magritt	An-Magritt	Arne Skouen
1969	The Passion of Anna	Anna Fromm	Ingmar Bergman
1970	Cold Sweat	Fabienne Martin	Terence Young
1971	The Emigrants	Kristina	Jan Troell
1971	The Night Visitor	Ester Jenks	László Benedek
1972	The New Land	Kristina	Jan Troell
1972	Cries and Whispers	Maria (and her mother)	Ingmar Bergman
1972	Pope Joan	Pope Joan	Michael Anderson
1973	Scenes from a Marriage	Marianne	Ingmar Bergman
1973	40 Carats	Ann Stanley	Milton Katselas
1973	Lost Horizon	Katherine	Charles Jarrott
1974	Zandy's Bride	Hannah Lund	Jan Troell
1974	The Abdication	Queen Kristina	Anthony Harvey
1975	Leonor	Leonor	Juan Luis Buñuel
1976	Face to Face	Dr. Jenny Isaksson	Ingmar Bergman
1977	The Serpent's Egg	Manuela Rosenberg
1977	A Bridge Too Far	Kate ter Horst	Richard Attenborough
1978	Autumn Sonata	Eva	Ingmar Bergman
1979	Players	Tennis Spectator	Anthony Harvey	Uncredited
1980	Richard's Things	Kate Morris	Anthony Harvey
1984	The Wild Duck	Gina	Henri Safran
1984	The Bay Boy	Mrs. Campbell	Daniel Petrie
1984	Dangerous Moves	Marina Fromm	Richard Dembo
1986	Let's Hope It's a Girl	Elena	Mario Monicelli
1987	Gaby: A True Story	Sari	Luis Mandoki
1987	Farewell Moscow	Ida Nudel	Mauro Bolognini
1988	The Girlfriend	María	Jeanine Meerapfel
1989	The Rose Garden	Gabriele	Fons Rademakers
1991	Mindwalk	Sonia Hoffman	Bernt Amadeus Capra
1991	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	Narrator	George Levenson	Voice; Short film
1992	The Long Shadow	Katherine	Vilmos Zsigmond
1992	The Ox	Mrs. Gustafsson	Sven Nykvist
1994	Drømspel	Ticket Seller	Unni Straume
2006	The Danish Poet	Narrator	Torill Kove	short film
2008	I et speil, i en gåte	Grandmother	Jesper W. Nielsen
2009	Sinna mann	Mother	Anita Killi	Voice; English version
2012	Zwei Leben (Two Lives)	Åse	Judith Kaufmann
2012	Liv & Ingmar	Self	Dheeraj Akolkar	Documentary

As director

Year	Film	Distribution
1992	Sofie	Pathé
1995	Kristin Lavransdatter	HVE Entertainment
1996	Private Confessions	Television movie
2000	Faithless	AB Svensk Filmindustri
2014	Miss Julie	Columbia TriStar

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	Onkel Vanja		(TV)
1965	Smeltedigelen	Mary Warren	(TV)
1966	En hyggelig fyr	Mabel	(TV)
1966	Måken	Sonja	(TV)
1967	Cocktailselskapet	Celia	(TV)
1975	Trollflöjten	Woman in Audience	(TV)
1979	Fruen fra havet	Ellida Wangel	(TV)
1983	Jenny	Jenny	(TV)
1983	Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number	Mrs. Jacobo Timerman	(TV)
1988	Gli indifferenti [it]	Maria Grazia	(TV)
1994	Zorn	Emma Zorn	(TV)
2003	Saraband	Marianne	(TV); Directed by Ingmar Bergman
2011	Lang dags ferd mot natt	Mary Tyrone	(TV)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1975	A Doll's House	Nora Helmer	Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway
1977	Anna Christie	Anna Christopherson	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
1979	I Remember Mama	Mama	Majestic Theatre, Broadway
1982	Ghosts	Mrs. Helen Alving	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2019	Liv	Herself
2021	American Moth		Grieghallen

Awards and recognition

Year	Award	Project	Result	Ref
1968	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress	Hour of the Wolf	Won
	Guldbagge Award for Best Actress		Won	[33]
1968	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress	Shame	Won
1971	Academy Award for Best Actress	The Emigrants	Nominated
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Won
1972	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress	The New Land	Won
1972	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress	Cries and Whispers	Won
1973	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role	Scenes from a Marriage	Nominated
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress		Won
1973	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	40 Carats	Nominated
1976	Academy Award for Best Actress	Face to Face	Nominated
	British Academy Film Award for Best Actress		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Won
1978	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress	Autumn Sonata	Won
1986	David di Donatello Award for Best Actress	Let's Hope It's a Girl	Nominated
1987		Farewell Moscow	Nominated
1988	San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actress	The Girlfriend	Won
1989	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama	The Rose Garden	Nominated
1992	Montreal World Film Festival Special Grand Prize of the Jury	Sofie	Won
	Montreal World Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury		Won
	Montreal World Film Festival Most Popular Film		Won
1996	Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo	Private Confessions	Nominated
2000	Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or	Faithless	Nominated	[34]
2000	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director		Nominated
2000	Goya Award for Best European Film Ecumenical Award		Nominated

Honors

• 1972: Golden Globe for best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, (The Emigrants)
• 1984: Four Freedoms Laureate, Freedom from Want
• 2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award
• 2006: The Danish Poet won its director Torill Kove the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards.
• 2010: 2010 FIAF Award [35]
• 2012: International Indian Film Academy Awards for Outstanding Contribution to International Cinema
• 2021: Academy Honorary Award[36][6]

See also

• List of film and television directors
• List of theatre directors in the 20th-21st centuries
• List of Norwegian actors
• List of Norwegian writers

References

Further reading

• Robert Emmet Long, ed. (2006). Liv Ullmann: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-823-1, 1-57806-824-X (paper). Collected interviews with Ullmann.
• David Outerbridge (1979). Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-Biography. New York City: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-03441-1.
• Liv Ullmann (1977). Changing. New York City: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-41148-X. Autobiography.
• Liv Ullmann (1984). Choices. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-53986-9. ISBN 978-0-394-53986-7. Autobiography.

External links

• Liv Ullmann at the Internet Broadway Database
• Liv Ullmann at IMDb
• Liv Ullmann at the TCM Movie Database
• Works by or about Liv Ullmann in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Liv Ullmann collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Liv Ullmann on Charlie Rose
• The Guardian/NFT interview with Shane Danielson, 23 January 2001 Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
• Peter Bradshaw review of Trolösa Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 9 February 2001
• A 1980 Interview for the Yugoslav Television on YouTube

Awards
Preceded by Arve Tellefsen	Recipient of the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award 1997	Succeeded by Sverre Fehn

На других языках

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[de] Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (* 16. Dezember 1938 in Tokio, Japan) ist eine international bekannte norwegische Schauspielerin und Regisseurin. Ihre bekanntesten Filmauftritte hatte sie in Filmdramen von Ingmar Bergman, etwa in Persona, Szenen einer Ehe, Schreie und Flüstern und Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, sowie in Jan Troells Emigranten und Das neue Land. Sie spielte überwiegend in Norwegen, Schweden und zeitweilig in den USA; ihre Arbeitssprachen sind Norwegisch, Schwedisch und Englisch.

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[es] Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (Tokio; 16 de diciembre de 1938)[1] es una actriz, escritora y cineasta noruega. Protagonizó nueve de los largometrajes de Ingmar Bergman,[2][3] con quien tuvo una hija, la escritora Linn Ullmann. Está considerada como una leyenda viva del cine y una de las actrices europeas más importantes del siglo XX. Última musa de Ingmar Bergman, sus interpretaciones en películas como Persona, Secretos de un matrimonio, Cara a Cara, Sonata de otoño o Gritos y susurros siguen siendo aclamadas por la crítica y el público.

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[ru] Ульман, Лив

Лив Юханна Ульман[5][6] (норв. Liv Johanne Ullmann; родилась 16 декабря 1938, Токио, Япония) — норвежская актриса. Встречается также вариант Ульманн[7]. Лив Ульман приобрела всемирную известность благодаря своим ролям, сыгранным в фильмах Ингмара Бергмана и Яна Труэля.

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