Cries and Whispers
1973
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- Her Early Life
- Starting Out in Acting
- Relationship with Ingmar Bergman
- Beyond Bergman
- Behind The Camera
- Outside The Film World
- An Award-Winning Actress
Liv Johanne Ullmann was born in Tokyo in 1938. Her father Erik was a Norwegian aircraft engineer working in Japan at the time. The family moved to Toronto in 1940 to work at the Norwegian air force base at Toronto Island in Lake Ontario during World War II. By the end of the war both her father and grandfather had died – the former having walked in...
During her teenage years, Liv studied acting in London and Norway. She started acting on stage in Norway in the mid 1950s and, despite screen success, continued to act in theatre throughout her career. Her most celebrated role – the only role she ever returned to – was that of Nora in Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. It was playi...
It was while visiting Andersson in Stockholm that she first met Ingmar Bergman. Bibi had already warned her about Bergman’s habit of sleeping with his female stars but within a couple of years, they were in a relationship and Bergman cast her in the first of the 10 movies that they made together, the 1966 movie Persona. Over the next 12 years, they...
Throughout the 12 years she was making movies with Bergman, Liv made a further 15 movies with other directors! This included The Emigrants (1971) for which she gained the first of her two Oscar nominations as Actress in a Leading Role. The second nomination was for her role as Dr Jenny Isaksson in Bergman’s Face to Face. Read more: Norway at the Os...
Liv’s directorial debut came in 1982 in the form of one segment of the film Love, a collection of six vignettes on the subject of love all written, directed and produced by women. In 1992 she directed the film Sofie about a Jewish woman living in Copenhagen in the late 18th and early 19thcentury. In 1995 came Kristin Lavransdatter, a tale of the da...
As well as acting on stage and screen, and directing, Liv has written for the screen – Kristin Lavransdatter, Sofie and Miss Julie were all written by or adapted by her. She has also written books including the autobiography Changing, which came shortly after her breakup with Bergman and discusses her fears about working and motherhood. Liv has bee...
Despite the many awards she has won throughout her career, the closest she came to an Oscar was when The Danish Poet – a Norwegian-Canadian animated short won the award. The director took the prize but Liv was the voice of the narrator. Awards, however, have never been a major concern for Liv Ullmann. In her own words: That all changed in 2022, whe...
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Liv Ullmann Photos stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. Liv Ullmann Photos stock photos are available in a variety of sizes and formats to fit your needs.
99+ Photos. Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut.
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