Ingrid Bergman
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
Apostrophes
Self
1975
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
Bambi
Self (archive footage)
1948
Series
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Omnibus
Self
1967
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Recipient
1956
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - appearing on film
1956
Film
Casablanca
Ilsa Lund
1943
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
Murder on the Orient Express
Greta Ohlson
1974
Series
Startime
Governess
1959
Series
Dim Dam Dom
Self
1965
Series
ABC Stage 67
A Woman
1966
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Series
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Autumn Sonata
Charlotte
1978
Film
Notorious
Alicia Huberman
1946
Film
Spellbound
Dr. Constance Petersen
1945
Small World
Self
1958
Film
Gaslight
Paula Alquist
1944
Film
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
1948
Film
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Maria
1943
Film
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016
Film
Cactus Flower
Stephanie Dickinson
1969
Film
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
1982
Series
Sverige och kriget
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Visit
Karla Zachanassian
1964
Series
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Anastasia
Anna Koreff / Anastasia
1956
Film
Under Capricorn
Lady Henrietta Flusky
1949
Film
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Film
Goodbye Again
Paula Tessier
1961
Film
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ivy Peterson
1941
Film
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
1994
Film
The Bells of St. Mary's
Sister Mary Benedict
1945
Film
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Gladys Aylward
1958
Film
Stromboli
Karin Bjornsen
1950
Film
Journey to Italy
Katherine Joyce
1954
Film
The Chicken
Ingrid
1953
Film
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
On the Sunny Side
Eva Bergh
1936
Film
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Europa '51
Irene Girard
1952
Film
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Gerda Millett
1964
Film
Indiscreet
Anna Kalman
1958
Film
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
1990
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
Auguste
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1961
Film
Rage in Heaven
Stella Bergen
1941
Film
Elena and Her Men
Elena Sokorowska
1956
Film
Langlois
Self
1970
Film
Arch of Triumph
Joan Madou
1948
Film
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Anita Hoffman
1939
Film
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Warner at War
(archive footage)
2008
Film
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
2017
Film
Two Bergmans
Self speaking English / Self speaking Italian (archival footage)
2025
Film
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1972
Film
Intermezzo
Anita Hoffman
1936
Series
A Woman Called Golda
Golda Meir
1982
Film
Fear
Irene Wagner
1954
Viva Ingrid!
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Julie Andrews Forever
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Breakdowns of 1944
Self
1944
Film
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Mrs. Frankweiler
1973
Film
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Film
A Woman Called Golda
Golda Meir
1982
Film
Adam Had Four Sons
Emilie Gallatin
1941
Film
Saratoga Trunk
Clio Dulaine
1945
Film
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Clare Lester
1961
Film
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Joan of Arc
1954
Film
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Libby Meredith
1970
Film
Santa Brigida
Herself
1951
Film
Becoming Marilyn
(archive footage)
2022
Film
A Matter of Time
Contessa Sanziani
1976
Film
The War of the Volcanoes
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Ersatz
Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
1978
Film
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
1961
Film
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
The Count of the Old Town
Elsa Edlund
1935
Film
June Night
Kerstin Norbäck
1940
Film
The Car That Became a Star
Gerda Millett (archive footage)
1965
Film
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
Film
Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
Self
1939
Film
Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
Interviewee
1981
Film
Stimulantia
Mathilde Hartman
1967
Film
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
The Rossellinis
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
1995
Film
The Turn of the Screw
Governess
1959
Film
We, the Women
Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
1953
Film
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
1953
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
(archive footage)
1975
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
1979
Film
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
The Human Voice
A Woman
1966
Film
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
1962
Film
Hitler's Hollywood
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
A Tradition of Romance
Herself
1976
Film
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Self (archive footage)
1993
Film
Beautiful Like a Poem
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020
Film
Swedenhielms
Astrid
1935
Film
Swedes in America
Herself
1943
Film
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
A Woman's Face
Anna Holm
1938
Film
Walpurgis Night
Lena Bergström
1935
Film
Ocean Breakers
Karin Ingman
1935
Film
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
1993
Film
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Karen (archive footage)
1998
Film
The Four Companions
Marianne Kruge
1938
Film
As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
1995
Film
The Making of Autumn Sonata
Self
1978
Film
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
Self (archive footage)
1992
Film
Only One Night
Eva Beckman
1939
Film
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
2001
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Self - actress, wife
1996
Film
Dollar
Julia Balzar
1938
Film
National match
Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)
1932
Film
Året var 1955
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Self (archive footage)
2003
Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
1953
Film
Cat Across the Road
Woman in mirror
1937
Film
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
Self (Archive Footage)
2008
Pappa Sandrew
1964