Ingrid Bergman
Acting • Born 1915-08-29 – Died 1982-08-29
Biography
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten. In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each. In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.
Filmography
132 credits
Casablanca
Movie • 1943
Ilsa Lund
Notorious
Movie • 1946
Alicia Huberman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1941
Ivy Peterson
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Movie • 1998
Karen (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Journey to Italy
Movie • 1954
Katherine Joyce
Stromboli
Movie • 1950
Karin Bjornsen
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Dr. Constance Petersen
Under Capricorn
Movie • 1949
Lady Henrietta Flusky
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Greta Ohlson
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Indiscreet
Movie • 1958
Anna Kalman
Julie Andrews Forever
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Movie • 1939
Anita Hoffman
Rage in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Stella Bergen
The Bells of St. Mary's
Movie • 1945
Sister Mary Benedict
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie • 1982
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Movie • 2020
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Autumn Sonata
Movie • 1978
Charlotte
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1943
Maria
Gaslight
Movie • 1944
Paula Alquist
Cactus Flower
Movie • 1969
Stephanie Dickinson
Arch of Triumph
Movie • 1948
Joan Madou
Hitler's Hollywood
Movie • 2017
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Europa '51
Movie • 1952
Irene Girard
Joan of Arc
Movie • 1948
Joan of Arc
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Movie • 1958
Gladys Aylward
Becoming Cary Grant
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Minns ni?
Movie • 1993
(archive footage)
Anastasia
Movie • 1956
Anna Koreff / Anastasia
June Night
Movie • 1940
Kerstin Norbäck
Saratoga Trunk
Movie • 1945
Clio Dulaine
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie • 1964
Gerda Millett
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Movie • 1995
Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
We, the Women
Movie • 1953
Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
Elena and Her Men
Movie • 1956
Elena Sokorowska
Goodbye Again
Movie • 1961
Paula Tessier
Walpurgis Night
Movie • 1935
Lena Bergström
Only One Night
Movie • 1939
Eva Beckman
A Woman's Face
Movie • 1938
Anna Holm
Swedenhielms
Movie • 1935
Astrid
A Matter of Time
Movie • 1976
Contessa Sanziani
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Fear
Movie • 1954
Irene Wagner
The Count of the Old Town
Movie • 1935
Elsa Edlund
Adam Had Four Sons
Movie • 1941
Emilie Gallatin
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
Hedda Gabler
Movie • 1962
Hedda Gabler
Intermezzo
Movie • 1936
Anita Hoffman
A Woman Called Golda
Movie • 1982
Golda Meir
On the Sunny Side
Movie • 1936
Eva Bergh
The Visit
Movie • 1964
Karla Zachanassian
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Movie • 1970
Libby Meredith
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Frankweiler
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Movie • 1954
Joan of Arc
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Movie • 1995
Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ersatz
Movie • 1978
Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
Swedes in America
Movie • 1943
Herself
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie • 1961
Self (uncredited)
Stimulantia
Movie • 1967
Mathilde Hartman
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
Movie • 2008
Self (Archive Footage)
The Turn of the Screw
Movie • 1959
Governess
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Stjärnbilder
Movie • 1995
(archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Movie • 1953
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Dollar
Movie • 1938
Julia Balzar
Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
Movie • 1939
Self
Viva Ingrid!
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Four Companions
Movie • 1938
Marianne Kruge
Pappa Sandrew
Movie • 1964
Langlois
Movie • 1970
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Ocean Breakers
Movie • 1935
Karin Ingman
The Human Voice
Movie • 1966
A Woman
Breakdowns of 1944
Movie • 1944
Self
The Chicken
Movie • 1953
Self
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
National match
Movie • 1932
Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)
Cat Across the Road
Movie • 1937
Woman in mirror
Warner at War
Movie • 2008
(archive footage)
The War of the Volcanoes
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
Movie • 1981
Interviewee
Auguste
Movie • 1961
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Santa Brigida
Movie • 1951
Herself
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Movie • 1961
Clare Lester
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Movie • 1953
Self
The Car That Became a Star
Movie • 1965
Gerda Millett (archive footage)
The Rossellinis
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
Movie • 1975
(archive footage)
Året var 1955
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Beautiful Like a Poem
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie • 1979
Self
The Making of Autumn Sonata
Movie • 1978
Self
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Movie • 1996
Self - actress, wife
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
Movie • 2022
Two Bergmans
Movie • 2025
Self speaking English / Self speaking Italian (archival footage)
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
Movie • 2016
Heart of the Festival
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie • 2009
A Tradition of Romance
Movie • 1976
Herself
Becoming Marilyn
Movie • 2022
Un film et son époque
TV • 2003
Self (archive footage)
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
A Woman
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Recipient
Star Time
TV • 1950
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self (archive footage)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self (archive footage)
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - appearing on film
Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Apostrophes
TV • 1975
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
A Woman Called Golda
TV • 1982
Golda Meir
Sverige och kriget
TV • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Small World
TV • 1958
Self