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(pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA notation) (August 29, 1915 -August 29, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning Swedish actress.

Early career

Bergman was born on 29 August 1915, in Stockholm, Sweden. When she was still very young, she lost both of her parents and was afterwards raised by relatives.

Bergman studied at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. Her first film role was a small part in 1935's Munkbrogreven (English title, The Count of the Old Town), although it is believed that she had previously been an extra in the 1932 film Landskamp).

After a dozen films in Sweden and one in Germany (including En kvinnas ansikte which would later be remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford), Bergman was signed by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to star in the English language remake of her 1936 Swedish language film, Intermezzo (1939). The Intermezzo remake was an enormous success and Bergman was a star, described as "Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood".

Hollywood career

After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1943 classic film Casablanca
, which remains her most recognizable role.

That same year, she received her first Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1943). The following year she won Best Actress again for Gaslight
(1944). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's
(1945). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc
(1948), a film produced by Howard Hughes which Bergman had championed since her arrival in Hollywood.

Alfred Hitchcock, who directed her in Notorious
, Spellbound
, and Under Capricorn
, was known to be obsessed with her.

Between motion pictures, Bergman also appeared in several stage plays, including a version of the Joan of Arc story.

Relationship with Rossellini

In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him while performing in his film Stromboli (1950). Bergman left her husband, Dr. Aron Petter Lindström and their daughter, Pia Lindström, for Rossellini.

They married on 24 May 1950, and had three children, including twin daughters/actresses, Isabella Rossellini and Isotta Rossellini, and, the youngest, a son, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini. The affair caused a scandal; Bergman, who was pregnant at the time of the marriage, was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" and forced to leave the States. Over the next few years, she appeared in several Italian films for Rossellini, including Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954), a remake of Joan of Arc. The Rossellini-Bergman marriage ended in divorce on 7 November 1957.

Back in the United States, anger over her private life continued unabated, with Ed Sullivan at one point infamously polling his TV show audience as to whether she should be forgiven.

Return to Hollywood

With her starring role in 1956's Anastasia, Bergman made her post-scandal triumphant return to Hollywood and won the Best Actress Oscar for a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in American and European films for the rest of her career and also made occasional appearances in television dramas such as a 1959 production of The Turn of the Screw for Startime for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress.

Bergman received her third Academy Award (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express
(1975), but she publicly declared at the Academy Awards telecast that year that the award rightfully belonged to Italian actress Valentina Cortese (Bergman's role was little more than an extended cameo). In 1978, she played in Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten
(better known by its English title, Autumn Sonata) for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. It is considered by many to be among her best performances.

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