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

• 2022Becoming Marilyn — (archive footage)
• 2016Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
• 2009Hollywood sul Tevere
• 2008Warner at War — (archive footage)
• 1998Rossellini Under the Volcano — Karen (archive footage)
• 1996Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain — Self - actress, wife
• 1995Stjärnbilder — (archive footage)
• 1995Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey — Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1993Minns ni? — (archive footage)
• 1982A Woman Called Golda — Golda Meir
• A Woman Called Golda — Golda Meir
• 1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
• 1981Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre — Interviewee
• 1978Autumn Sonata — Charlotte
• 1978Ersatz — Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
• 1976A Matter of Time — Contessa Sanziani
• 1976Bob Hope's World of Comedy — (archive footage)
• 1975Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television — (archive footage)
• 1974Murder on the Orient Express — Greta Ohlson
• 1973From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — Mrs. Frankweiler
• 1970A Walk in the Spring Rain — Libby Meredith
• 1969Cactus Flower — Stephanie Dickinson
• 1967Stimulantia — Mathilde Hartman
• ABC Stage 67 — A Woman
• 1966The Human Voice — A Woman
• 1965The Car That Became a Star — Gerda Millett (archive footage)
• 1965Tokyo Olympiad — Thanks
• 1964The Visit — Karla Zachanassian, Producer
• 1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce — Gerda Millett
• 1962Hedda Gabler — Hedda Gabler
• 196124 Hours in a Woman's Life — Clare Lester
• 1961Auguste — Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
• 1961Goodbye Again — Paula Tessier
• Startime — Governess
• 1959The Turn of the Screw — Governess
• 1958Indiscreet — Anna Kalman
• 1958The Inn of the Sixth Happiness — Gladys Aylward
• 1956Anastasia — Anna Koreff / Anastasia
• 1956Elena and Her Men — Elena Sokorowska
• 1954Fear — Irene Wagner
• 1954Joan of Arc at the Stake — Joan of Arc
• 1954Journey to Italy — Katherine Joyce
• 1953The Chicken — Ingrid
• 1953We, the Women — Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
• 1952Europa '51 — Irene Girard
• 1950Stromboli — Karin Bjornsen
• 1949Under Capricorn — Lady Henrietta Flusky
• 1948Arch of Triumph — Joan Madou
• 1948Joan of Arc — Joan of Arc
• 1946Notorious — Alicia Huberman
• 1945Saratoga Trunk — Clio Dulaine
• 1945Spellbound — Dr. Constance Petersen
• 1945The Bells of St. Mary's — Sister Mary Benedict
• 1944Gaslight — Paula Alquist
• 1943Casablanca — Ilsa Lund
• 1943For Whom the Bell Tolls — Maria
• 1941Adam Had Four Sons — Emilie Gallatin
• 1941Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Ivy Peterson
• 1941Rage in Heaven — Stella Bergen
• 1940June Night — Kerstin Norbäck
• 1939Intermezzo: A Love Story — Anita Hoffman
• 1939Only One Night — Eva Beckman
• 1938A Woman's Face — Anna Holm
• 1938Dollar — Julia Balzar
• 1938The Four Companions — Marianne Kruge
• 1937Cat Across the Road — Woman in mirror
• 1936Intermezzo — Anita Hoffman
• 1936On the Sunny Side — Eva Bergh
• 1935Ocean Breakers — Karin Ingman
• 1935Swedenhielms — Astrid
• 1935The Count of the Old Town — Elsa Edlund
• 1935Walpurgis Night — Lena Bergström
• 1932National match — Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (64)

• Sverige och kriget — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Two Bergmans — Self speaking English / Self speaking Italian (archival footage)
• 2024Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Rossellinis — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Yul Brynner, the Magnificent — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2019Julie Andrews Forever — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Becoming Cary Grant — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Hitler's Hollywood — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Viva Ingrid! — Self (archive footage)
• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2012The War of the Volcanoes — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Året var 1955 — Self (archive footage)
• 2003As Time Goes By: The Children Remember — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Reflections on 'Gaslight' — Self (archive footage)
• Un film et son époque — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Glorious Technicolor — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1997Bogart: The Untold Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful — Self (archive footage)
• 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band — Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
• Intimate Portrait — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Rossellini Through His Own Eyes — Self (archive footage)
• 1992You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca' — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Anthony Quinn: An Original — Self (archive footage)
• 1988Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man — Self (archive footage)
• 1988Gregory Peck: His Own Man — Self (archive footage)
• 1979All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman — Self
• 1978The Making of Autumn Sonata — Self
• 1976A Tradition of Romance — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
• Film '72 — Self
• 1970Langlois — Self
• 1969The Happy Ending — Self - Actress in 'Casablanca' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Omnibus — Self
• Dim Dam Dom — Self
• 1964Pappa Sandrew — Self (archive footage)
• 1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years — Self (uncredited)
• Small World — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Recipient, Self - appearing on film
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• 1953A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family — Self
• 1953Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• 1951Santa Brigida — Self
• Bambi — Self (archive footage)
• 1944Breakdowns of 1944 — Self
• 1943Swedes in America — Herself
• 1939Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test — Self