Ingrid Thulin

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Biography

Ingrid trained as a ballet dancer and attended Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. She came to fame thanks to Bergman's "Wild Strawberries". She acted in 9 Ingmar Bergman's films. Her fame allowed her to act in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" in 1969. Ingrid Thulin lived in Rome since the 1960's. She came back to Sweden for her health treatment recently.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·director·writer
  • Country
  • Sweden
  • Nationality
  • Swedish
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 27 January 1926
  • Place of birth
  • Sollefteå
  • Death date
  • 2004-01-07
  • Death age
  • 78
  • Place of death
  • Stockholm
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Spouses
  • Harry Schein
  • Knows language
  • Swedish language

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Trivia

Studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm.

From the mid-50s she emerged as one of the finest dramatic stage and screen actresses of her country.

One of Ingmar Bergman s favorite actresses. They made 10 movies together: Ett drmspel , Ansiktet , Efter repetitionen , Nattvardsgsterna , Nra livet , Riten , Smultronstllet , Tystnaden , Vargtimmen and Viskningar och rop .

Her father was a fisherman in a small town in Northern Sweden.

Trained as a ballet dancer in Stockholm and then as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

In The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , her lines were dubbed by Angela Lansbury.

Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1980.

She took ballet lessons as a child.

Spoke English, French, and Italian fluently.

Her co-star Dirk Bogarde stated that she deserved an Oscar for her performance in La caduta degli dei (Gtterdmmerung) .

She was considered for the role of A. in Lanne dernire Marienbad , but Delphine Seyrig was cast instead. Ingrid later went on to work with Alain Resnais in La guerre est finie .

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