“I was so full of my own life -- my career, being in and out of love.”
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Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and filmmaker. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, whom she dated for five years. She acted in many of his films, including Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Autumn Sonata…
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Born 16 December 1938 · Q191064
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2026· 5 entries
“tremendously close, perhaps too close,”
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“I think if you marry once, and you keep it, to stand in front of God and be together in sickdom and health, I think that is wonderful. I wish I had experienced it.”
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2022).
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2018· 1 entry
Ullmann narrated Wars Don't End, a documentary about the Lebensborn war children
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Haugesund Walk of Fame (2016).
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2013· 1 entry
Ullmann directed a film adaptation of Miss Julie
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Oslo City Culture Award (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Telenor Culture Award (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Was the head of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2004).
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Ullmann revealed that she had received an offer in November 2003 to play in three episodes of the American television series, Sex and the City
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2003· 1 entry
Ullmann reprised her role for Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband (2003), Bergman's final telemovie
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded South Trøndelag county Culture Award (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded honorar citizen of Trondheim (1997).
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Awarded Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Den Spillende Faun (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded The Amanda Committee's Honorary Award (1992).
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1988· 1 entry
Earned Silver Shell for Best Actress for The Girlfriend (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Trondheim Municipality Culture Award (1987).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Medal of honor Dag Hammarskjold (1985).
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Ullman married American real estate developer Donald Saunders from Boston, and they divorced in 1995 but remained in a relationship
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want in Middelburg (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Ingmar Bergman wanted Ullmann to play Emelie Ekdahl in his last feature film, Fanny and Alexander, and wrote the role with this in mind
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1980· 1 entry
Brian De Palma, who directed Carrie, wanted Liv Ullmann to play the role of Kate Miller in the erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill and offered it to her, but she declined because of the violence
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1977· 1 entry
When she appeared on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, The New York Times said that she "glowed with despair and hope, and was everything one could have wished her to have been" in a per
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1976· 1 entry
“She herself claims she was tough, with a cool eye.”
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Peer Gynt Literary Award (1973).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Emigrants (1973).
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1972· 1 entry
For the film The Emigrants and has been nominated for another four
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1966· 1 entry
They had a daughter, writer Linn Ullmann (born 1966), whose son Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (born 1990) became a filmmaker.
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1945· 1 entry
Returned to Norway and lived in Trondheim
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-12-16.
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