Bibi Andersson

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Swedish actress (1935–2019)

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::summary Swedish actress (1935–2019) ::

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nameBibi Andersson
imageBibi Andersson (1961).jpg
captionAndersson in 1961
birth_nameBerit Elisabet Andersson
birth_date
birth_placeStockholm, Sweden
death_date
death_placeStockholm, Sweden
alma_materRoyal Dramatic Theatre School
occupationActress
yearsactive1951–2009
spouse
children1
relativesGerd Andersson (sister)
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Berit Elisabet "Bibi" Andersson (, 11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019) was a Swedish actress, best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She received numerous accolades for her work, including four Guldbagge Awards (one for Best Actress and three for Best Supporting Actress), and Best Actress Awards from both the Cannes and Berlin film festivals.

Early life and education

Andersson was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, the daughter of Karin (née Mansion), a social worker, and Josef Andersson, a businessman. She was the younger sister of Swedish film actress Gerd Andersson.

Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman came in 1951, when she participated in his production of an advertisement for the detergent Bris. She also worked as an extra on film sets as a teenager, and studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School (1954–1956). She then joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

Career

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Andersson starred in 10 motion pictures and three television films directed by Bergman. With Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck and Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, she shared the Best Actress Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for the director's Brink of Life, a film set in a maternity ward. The other films included The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Passion of Anna, The Touch, and Persona.

In 1963, Andersson won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in Vilgot Sjöman's The Mistress.

From the mid-1960s onwards

Andersson's intense portrayal of a nurse in the film Persona (1966) – in which actress Elizabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), suffering from a psychosomatic condition, is mostly mute – involved her delivering the majority of the dialogue. For her performance in Persona, she won the award for Best Actress at the 4th Guldbagge Awards. That year, she was seen alongside James Garner and Sidney Poitier in the Western Duel at Diablo. More Bergman collaborations followed, and she worked with John Huston (The Kremlin Letter, 1970) and Robert Altman (Quintet, 1979, with Paul Newman). She was actor Steve McQueen's co-star in his only film with credit as a producer, a stage adaptation by Arthur Miller of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (1977).

Andersson made her debut in American theatre in 1973 with a production of Erich Maria Remarque's Full Circle. Her most famous American film is I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), which also starred Kathleen Quinlan.

In 1990, Andersson worked as a theatre director in Stockholm, directing several plays at Dramaten. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she worked primarily in television and as a theatre actress, working with Bergman and others. She was also a supervisor for the Road to Sarajevo, a humanitarian project.

Honours

Personal life

In 1996, Andersson published her autobiography, Ett ögonblick (A Moment, or, literally, A Blink of the Eye). She was married first to the director Kjell Grede (1960, divorced) with whom she had a daughter; and secondly to politician and writer Per Ahlmark (1979, divorced). Andersson then married Gabriel Mora Baeza on 29 May 2004. In 2009, she had a stroke; an article published the following year says that from that time on she had been hospitalized and was unable to speak.

Death

Andersson died on 14 April 2019, aged 83 from complications of a stroke.

Legacy

73767 Bibiandersson, a minor planet discovered by Eric Walter Elst, is named after her.

Selected filmography

Andersson appeared in the following films:

References

References

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  2. (1990). "The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era". McFarland.
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  5. Macnab, Geoffrey. (6 January 2003). "Now wash your hands". [[The Guardian]].
  6. (14 April 2019). "Bibi Andersson, 'Persona,' 'The Seventh Seal' Actress, Dies at 83". [[Variety (magazine).
  7. Bergan, Ronald. (15 April 2019). "Bibi Andersson obituary". The Guardian.
  8. "Berlinale: Prizes & Honours 1963". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin.
  9. (1 March 2014). "Persona". Swedish Film Institute.
  10. Gates, Anita. (14 April 2019). "Bibi Andersson, Luminous Presence in Bergman Films, Dies at 83". [[The New York Times]].
  11. "The Kremlin Letter (1970)". Shock Cinema Magazine.
  12. (9 February 1979). "Film: Altman Offers Apocalyptic Fantasy:End Game". The New York Times.
  13. (11 August 1981). "MCQUEEN IN 1976 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE'". The New York Times.
  14. Barnes, Clive. (8 November 1973). "The Stage: Remarque's 'Full Circle'". The New York Times.
  15. Ebert, Roger. "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden".
  16. "Arkivet Rollboken – Dramaten".
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  19. "Ett ögonblick från 1996". Tradera.
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  21. (14 April 2019). "Acclaimed actress Bibi Andersson has died, aged 83". Far Out Magazine.
  22. "Nu kämpar Bibi för att prata igen". Expressen.
  23. "Bibi Andersson dies at 84".
  24. Schmadel, Lutz D.. (2015). "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014". Springer.
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