Viveca Lindfors
Viveca Lindfors (actually: Elsa Viveca Lindfors Torsten yolk; born December 29, 1920 in Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, † October 25, 1995 ibid ) was an American film and theater actress and a film director and writer of Swedish origin.
Biography
Viveca Lindfors counts next to Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman to the most famous actresses of Sweden, although they never took the same star status. She learned her craft at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and debuted in 1940, 20 years old, familjen in the Swedish film comedy Snurriga.
Over the next five and a half years Lindfors was in Sweden in fifteen feature films before the camera and in numerous plays on the theater stage. 1945 pulled the dark-haired actress to Hollywood, where they took Warner Brothers contract. In 1948, Lindfors ' U.S. film debut in the war drama To The Victor. Starting in 1950, the actress was also on Broadway on stage as the lead actress in Anastasia. 1951 Lindfors received the U.S. citizenship. With her husband George Tabori rehearsed including in the Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg, made performances such as Strindberg's " Miss Julie " and founded in 1966 with his independent theater group "The Strolling Players".
Your success as a film actress, however, was quickly back up to expectations. Her most famous film in that era was the 1961 film version produced Bible King of Kings, in which she played Claudia Procula. Also she was in television series, including Bonanza and Dynasty front of the camera. At the Berlinale 1962, she won for her role in the independent film No Exit, together with her partner, Rita Gam Silver Bear.
Lindfors was interesting only with increasing age for producers. In 1978 she won Robert Altman for a wedding, and Roland Emmerich 1994 Stargate.
In 1987 she was the first and only time behind the camera. Unfinished Business was the 67 -minute feature film, in which she not only directed and wrote the screenplay, but was also seen in a supporting role.
Viveca Lindfors was from the summer of 1995 in Sweden back on stage. She died in October of the same year, 74 -year-old, in her hometown of Uppsala, from complications of their rheumatic disease.
Family
She was married four times. In 1941 she married the German Hasso Harry, the divorce took place in 1942. Between 1944 and 1948 she was married to the Swedish Folke Rogard. With him, she gave birth to her second child, Lena Tabori, who works as an actress and producer today. With her third husband, the Americans Don Siegel, with which Lindfors was married 1948-1953, got Lindfors ' their third child, Kristoffer Tabori, who is a successful director and actor today. After the marriage of her mother in 1954 with the writers and screenwriters George Tabori, the half siblings Lena and Kristoffer also adopted the family name. The marriage with Tabori was also the longest marriage of Viveca Lindfors. With Tabori moved to Germany in 1971, she was finished, the divorce took place the following year.