Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress and muse of Ingmar Bergman, dies at 83
Source: Washington Post
Bibi Andersson, a Swedish actress whose portrayals of chaste schoolgirls, beguiling young women and tortured wives made her a muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, most notably in The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and Persona, died April 14 in Stockholm. She was 83.
Her death was confirmed by Jan Goransson, head of media at the Swedish Film Institute, who said she had been receiving medical treatment since suffering a stroke in 2009. Additional details were not immediately available.
Easily recognizable by her short blonde hair, button nose, slim figure and wide smile, Ms. Andersson appeared in more than 100 film and television productions through the years, often playing luminous characters whose warm demeanor masked past traumas or intense self-doubt.
Although she starred in Hollywood movies such as I Never Promised You a Rose Garden in the 1970s, working with American directors such as John Huston (The Kremlin Letter) and Robert Altman (Quintet), she never attained the spectacular success she found in Sweden, where Goransson called her one of the greatest stars we ever had.
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still_one
(92,061 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)Zorro
(15,724 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)A Bergman parody
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Andersson, Ullman and Bergman. What more could one ask?
Good actress
ZZenith
(4,116 posts)The best actors directed by the best director who wrote the best scripts, all captured by the best cinema photographers. What more can you ask for?
FrankBooth
(1,600 posts)Was just watching Persona last night on the new Criterion streaming service.
She was lovely and talented.