Bibi Andersson

Birgitta "Bibi" Andersson (born 11 November 1935) is a Swedish actress.

Early life

Andersson was born 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 she starred in four Bergman-directed pictures: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life and The Magician.

Later career

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.

Selected filmography

• 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)
• All These Women (1964)
• Ön (1966)
• Persona (1966)
• Duel at Diablo (1966)
• The Passion of Anna (1969)
• The Touch (1971)
• The Man from the Other Side (1971)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
• An Enemy of the People (1978)
• The Concorde...Airport '79 (1979)
• Exposed (1983)
• Poor Butterfly (1986)
• Babette's Feast (1987)
• Dreamplay (1994)
• The Butterfly's Dream (1994)
• Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
• Arn – The Knight Templar (2007)

References

External links

• Bibi Andersson at the Internet Movie Database
• Bibi Andersson at the TCM Movie Database
• Bibi Andersson at the Internet Broadway Database

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