Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson ( born November 11, 1935 in Stockholm, Sweden as Berit Elisabeth Andersson ) is a Swedish actress.
Life
Bibi Andersson studied acting at the Gosta Terserus Theatre School and the legendary acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1954 until 1956.
To cooperate with Ingmar Bergman came for the first time in 1951 when she took part in a promotional film directed by him for the soap " Bris ". In 1956 she became a member of Bergman's theater company in Malmö, first major roles in his films, she starred in The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries (both 1957). At this time, Bergman was also privately her partner. For the role of a young unmarried pregnant women near the Life ( 1958), she received along with Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahl Beck and Barbro Hiort af Ornäs Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958. 1959 she went to the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
In the 1960s, Andersson could allow information often been thought to their sorrow roles of the always cheerful young woman behind him. Her intense portrait of the nurse Alma in Persona (1966 ) is considered one of her best performances. There were other films with Bergman and John Huston ( The letter to the Kremlin, 1970) and Robert Altman ( Quintet, 1979). In 1973 she made her debut as an actress on the American stage in Erich Maria Remarque's Theatre Full Circle, in the 1980s as a theater director in Stockholm. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she worked primarily in television and the theater. She was also one of the initiators of the humanitarian project " Road to Sarajevo ," in which artists campaigning for artists and people in the crisis area of the former Yugoslavia. 1999 Bibi Andersson was Jury President of the World Film Festival.
Bibi Andersson was 1960-1973 married to the director Kjell Grede and 1979-1981 with the politician Per Ahlmark. Since 2004, the physician Gabriel Mora Baeza is her spouse. In 1996, she published her biography Ett ögonblick ( "One moment ").