Ingrid Thulin

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Ingrid Thulin (27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress.

She was born as a fisherman's daughter in Sollefteå, Ångermanland in northern Sweden. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theatre's School in 1948. For years she worked with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, where she developed her personal style, acting with neurotic intensity like in The Silence (1963) or Cries and Whispers (1972), making her the third actress of world fame coming from Sweden (after Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman).

She shared the best actress award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival and received a Guldbagge Award as best actress in 1964, the first year the award was given out, for her performance in The Silence.

She was married to Harry Schein, the founder of the Swedish Film Institute, for more than 30 years until 1989, although they had lived separately for many years before the divorce.

In her later years she lived in Rome, Italy. She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm, Sweden, 20 days short of her 78th birthday.

[edit] Selected filmography

Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries (1957)
with Victor Sjöström
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
with Glenn Ford
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Tystnaden / The Silence (1963)
with Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman
La Guerre est finie / The War is Over (1966)
with Yves Montand
Director: Alain Resnais
Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf (1968)
with Max von Sydow
Director: Ingmar Bergman
The Damned (1969) with Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
Viskningar och Rop / Cries and Whispers (1972)
with Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
La Cage (1975)
with Lino Ventura
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Salon Kitty (1975)
with Helmut Berger
Director: Tinto Brass
Efter repetitionen / After the Rehearsal (1984)
with Erland Josephson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Il Giorno Prima / Contrôle (1987)
with Ben Gazzara, Mike Zella, Kate Nelligan, Sarah Howell, Kate Reid, Camille Dupont, Burt Lancaster
Director: Giuliano Montaldo

[edit] Further reading

Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 1. An Illustrated Guide ... to the Work of the Leading Directors, Players, Technicians, and other Key Figures in Swedish Cinema, with Credits and Plot outlines to more than seventy important Films, and Index to 1,000 Titles.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series). SBN 302-02009-8
Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 2. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Themes, Trends, and Directors in Swedish Cinema.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series). SBN 302-02010-1
Cowie, Peter (1977): Film in Sweden. Stars and Players.
London: The Tantivy Press. ISBN 0-498-02013-4