Bibi Andersson
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Swedish actress Bibi Andersson received her training at the legendary Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, then graduated to the Royal Theatre of Stockholm. While performing in a stage production in Malmo, the 17-year-old Bibi, she was discovered for films by Ingmar Bergman, who tested her in a TV soap commercial before casting her in a small but showy role in Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). Exhibiting a more capricious image than most Bergman heroines, Ms. Andersson played breezily insouciant characters in the otherwise sober-sided The Seventh Seal (1957) and Wild Strawberries (1958). Her first important all-dramatic assignment was the neurotic unwed mother-to-be in Bergman's Brink of Life, for which she was honored with a Cannes Film Festival prize. Arguably her finest work under Bergman's guidance was as garrulous nurse Alma in Persona (1966), who gradually exchanges personalities with her near-comatose patient Liv Ullmann. She was also featured in one episode of Bergman's made-for-television Scenes from a Marriage (1973). On the Swedish stage, Bibi has starred in such imports as Arthur Miller's After the Fall and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Bibi Andersson's American film credits--on the whole, far less worthwhile than her European and Scandinavian efforts--have included Duel at Diablo (1966), The Kremlin Letter (1970), Airport 79: The Concorde (1979), and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRelated Videos:
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Bibi Andersson
| Bibi Andersson | |
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 Bibi Andersson, 21 December 1957 |
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| Born | Berit Elisabeth Andersson[1] 11 November 1935 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951–present |
| Spouse |
Kjell Grede (m. 1960–1973) |
Bibi Andersson (born 11 November 1935) is a Swedish actress.
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Early life
Bibi Andersson was born as Berit Elisabeth Andersson in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, the daughter of Karin (née Mansion), a social worker, and Josef Andersson, a businessman.[2][3][4] She studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the legendary Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm.
After completing school, she agreed to join the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, which she was associated with for 30 years. Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman was in 1951, when she participated in his production of an advertisement for the detergent "Bris". In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, she starred in more than ten Bergman-directed pictures, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician and Persona.
Later career
In 1963, at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival, Andersson won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award for her role in Vilgot Sjöman's film The Mistress.[5]
Her intense portrayal of the nurse Alma in the 1966 film Persona led to an increase in the number of cinematic roles offered her, and she appeared that same year opposite James Garner and Sidney Poitier in the violent western Duel at Diablo. More Bergman collaborations followed, as well as working with John Huston (The Kremlin Letter: 1970) and Robert Altman (Quintet: 1979). She made her debut in American theatre in 1973 with a production of Erich Maria Remarque's Full Circle.
In 1990, she worked as a theatre director in Stockholm. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Andersson worked primarily in television and as a theatre actress, working with Bergman among others. She was also a supervisor for the humanitarian project Road to Sarajevo.
Personal life
In 1996, she published her autobiography Ett ögonblick (A Moment, or, literally, A Blink of the Eye). She has been married (1960, divorced) to the director Kjell Grede with whom she has a daughter, Jenny, and, secondly (1978, divorced), to the politician and writer Per Ahlmark. Since 29 May 2004, Andersson has been married to Gabriel Mora Baeza.
Filmography
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- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Last Pair Out (1956)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Brink of Life (1958)
- Rabies (1958)
- The Magician (1958)
- The Devil's Eye (1960)
- The Pleasure Garden (1961)
- The Mistress (1962)
- All These Women (1964)
- Ön (1966)
- Persona (1966)
- Duel at Diablo (1966)
- The Girls (1968)
- The Passion of Anna (1969)
- The Kremlin Letter (1970)
- The Touch (1971)
- The Man from the Other Side (1971)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (film) (1977)
- An Enemy of the People (1978)
- The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
- Quintet (1979)
- Marmalade Revolution (1980)
- Exposed (1983)
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985) (TV)
- Poor Butterfly (1986)
- Babette's Feast (1987)
- Dreamplay (1994)
- The Butterfly's Dream (1994)
- Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
- The Lost Prince (2003) (TV)
- Arn – The Knight Templar (2007)
References
- ^ The International Dictionary of ... – Google Books. Google. 3 January 2007. http://books.google.com/?id=wbgYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Bibi+Andersson%22+Birgitta&dq=%22Bibi+Andersson%22+Birgitta. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ^ Segrave, Kerry; Linda Martin (1990). The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era. McFarland. p. 274. ISBN 0-89950-510-4.
- ^ Wilson, H.W.. Current biography yearbook. H.W. Wilson Company. p. 13. ISBN 0-8242-0997-4.
- ^ "Bibi Andersson Film Reference biography". Filmreference.com. 11 November 1935. http://www.filmreference.com/film/74/Bibi-Andersson.html. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ "Berlinale: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1963/03_preistr_ger_1963/03_Preistraeger_1963.html. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
External links
- Bibi Andersson at the Internet Movie Database
- Bibi Andersson at the Swedish Film Database
- Bibi Andersson at the TCM Movie Database
- Bibi Andersson at the Internet Broadway Database
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