Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Barbro Margareta Eriksdotter Hiort af Ornäs ( born August 28, 1921 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish stage and film actress. In her seven -decade career, she took on more than 60 theater roles. Likewise, they could be seen from the 1940s to more than 60 film and television productions. For Ingmar Bergman's film Near the Life ( 1958) she got together with Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahl Beck and Bibi Andersson Actor Award at the International Film Festival of Cannes.
Biography
Education and theater work
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs 1921 in Gothenburg af the third child of engineer Hans Erik Sebastian Hiort Ornäs ( other sources say Hjort af Ornäs ) and his wife Alma Ärnström born. She grew up with two older brothers in their hometown, before the family moved to Stockholm, where his father from 1926 maintained a private engineering firm. Hiort af Ornäs attended the workshop Schartaus trade school. In 1939, she made the acquaintance of the young theater director Ingmar Bergman, who put them in his second piece Galgmannen in the Stockholm theater fattening Olof - gården. Up to Bergman's appointment as Head of the municipal theater of Helsingborg in 1944, she was honored with recurring roles in his productions. In 1943, she was accepted at the Royal Theater School in Stockholm, where such well-known actresses such as Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Eva Dahl Beck had begun their training.
Your professional stage debut Hiort af Ornäs in the same year at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She was ' The Three Musketeers (1943 ) represented with a supporting role in Stig Torsslows production of Alexandre Dumas, in which she acted alongside Olof Bergström, Anita Björk and Mai Zetterling. After completing her training in 1945 Hiort af Ornäs appeared in other productions at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she entrusted with supporting roles in both Swedish pieces as well as modern fabrics such as the part of Sue Bayliss in Arthur Miller's All My Sons (1947 ) by Rune Carlsten been. From the late 1940s Hiort af Ornäs joined various private theaters in Stockholm. From 1947 to 1948 she worked for the New Theatre ( " Nya Teatern " ) before she moved from 1948 to 1952 at the Vasateatern. From 1953 to 1954 she worked for the intima Teatern, interrupted by a one-year stint at the Gothenburg City Theatre (1952 /53), where they can be seen, among others, in Jean Anouilh's Invitation to the court (1952) and Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding (1953 ) was.
From 1955 to 1958, Hiort af Ornäs closed again to the ensemble of the Stockholm Vasateatern. After a season at the Stockholm City Theatre ( " Stadsteater " 1964 /65) took the early 1970s with the part of Maria Nikolaevna in Mats Ek 's production of Leo Tolstoy's testaments (1970 ) their work at the Royal Dramatic Theatre again. Until the late 1990s, she was there with supporting roles in plays by Edward Bond ( Restoration, 1983), Bertolt Brecht ( The Life of Galileo, 1974), Rolf Hochhuth ( doctors, 1982), Christopher Hampton ( Dangerous Liaisons, 1990), William Shakespeare ( Romeo and Juliet, 1971, measure for Measure, 1979), August Strindberg ( Mr. Bengt hustru, 1971; Myten om och styrka svaghet, 1975; Kronbruden, 1988) or Peter Weiss ( Hölderlin, 1973) to see. 1977 called Hiort af Ornäs also the program Poesihörnan (German: " Poetry Corner " ) to life, which was held in the cafe of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and poetry combined with food. Once again a late comeback to the Swedish theater stage she celebrated in 2006 with 84 years in Maria Löfgrens staging of Jösses Flickor in the Stockholm City Theatre where she acted alongside such well-known spectacle colleagues such as Sofia Ledarp, Lena B. Eriksson and Katarina Ewerlöf.
Film career
In addition to her work in the theater celebrated Hiort af Ornäs 1943 with the secondary role of Kaj Ekman at Olof Molanders Drama women in captivity their debut in the Swedish film. Self under such well-known film directors Gustaf Molander as ( Fästmö uthyres, 1950), Alf Sjöberg ( Barabbas - The Man in the Dark, 1953) or the German Eugen York ( Das Fräulein von Scuderi, 1955) followed. An international audience but was known until 1958 by the renewed collaboration with Ingmar Bergman at the first joint film project near the life Hiort af Ornäs. In the film adaptation of stories by Ulla Issakson she slipped into the role of a senior nurse who takes an interest in the fate of three patients (played by Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahl Beck and Bibi Andersson ) in the maternity ward of a hospital. The drama received an invitation to compete in the 11th International Film Festival of Cannes in the same year. The performance of Thulin, Dahl Beck, Andersson and Hiort af Ornäs more appreciated by the festival jury by the French writer Marcel Achard and all four actresses were the first Swedish winner of the Best Actor Award.
The part of the sister Brita, for which she gained recognition in their home country is exemplary of the roles that embodied Hiort af Ornäs since the beginning of her film career. Frequently she was cast in roles such as confidence-inspiring as a nurse, principal or social worker. However, at the early international success, the actress was not able in the following decades. From the early 1960s came Hiort af Ornäs propagated in theater adaptations for Swedish television in appearance, including Sophocles' Antigone (1960), Eugene O'Neill O wilderness! ( Ljuva ungdomstid, 1961) or George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1968). Ingmar Bergman gave her sporadic small roles in his films Oh, these women (1964 ), Shame (1968), Passion ( 1969), The Touch ( 1971) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973 ), as the young Lasse Hallström ( ... father, however, be very, 1979; Kom strength, nu'rå, 1981)! . A major Swedish audience remained Hiort af Ornäs from the 1980s through age roles in memory, so as a mother of Lasse Åberg in his successful Stig- Helmer comedies Sällskapsresan 2 - Snow Scooter (1985 ), SOS - En segelsällskapsresa (1988 ), The Ofrivillige golfaren (1991) and Hälsoresan - En smal film- av stor vikt (1999). Your previous last television role she graduated in 2001 with the part of the ester in Martin Asphaugs The wrong judgment (2001), based on the eponymous crime novel by Håkan Nesser. With Eric and Martin Donells Söders crime film The Mark of a Murderer ( 2005) Hiort af Ornäs came last in the cinema in appearance.
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was with Hans Ullberg (1920-1996) dating, himself an actor and director of the Riksteatern, the Swedish national theater company. In 1989 she was awarded the Royal Medal of Honour Litteris et Artibus for her contribution as an actress, had been awarded the well-known personalities in front of her as Tage Danielsson, Erland Josephson or Astrid Lindgren.