Bibi Andersson

Berit Elisabet "Bibi" Andersson (, 11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019) 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,

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. 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. 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 2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award

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:

Miss Julie (1951) as Dancing girl (uncredited) U-Boat 39 (1952) as Girl on the train (uncredited) The Beat of Wings in the Night (1953) as Student at Tornelius' party (uncredited) Stupid Bom (1953) as Elvira Sir Arne's Treasure (1954) as Berghild A Night at Glimmingehus (1954) as Maj Månsson The Girl in the Rain (1955) as Lilly Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Egen ingång (1956) as Karin Johansson Last Pair Out (1956) as Kerstin The Seventh Seal (1957) as Mia / Mary - Jof's wife Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957, TV Movie) as Anne-Marie Summer Place Wanted (1957) as Mona Dahlström Wild Strawberries (1957) as Sara / Hitchhiker You Are My Adventure (1958) as Christina Blom Brink of Life (1958) as Hjördis Petterson Rabies (1958, TV Movie) as Eivor The Magician (1958) as Sara Lindqvist The Beloved Game (1959) as Lena The Wedding Day (1960) as Sylvia Blom The Devil's Eye (1960) as Britt-Marie Karneval (1961) as Monika Square of Violence (1961) as Maria The Pleasure Garden (1961) as Anna, Fanny's Daughter The Mistress (1962) as The Girl Pan (1962) as Edvarda All These Women (1964) as Humlan Juninatt (1965) as Britt Ön (1966) as Marianne About Love (1966) as Woman at the aerodrome My Sister, My Love (1966) as Charlotte / Sister Duel at Diablo (1966) as Ellen Grange Persona (1966) as Alma Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966) as Ingrid Le viol (1967) as Marianne Séverin The Girls (1968) as Liz Lindstrand (1968) as Elin Pappila (1969) as Jane Merrild / Alice Badram Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1969) as Margit Lindmark The Passion of Anna (1969) as Eva Vergérus / Self The Kremlin Letter (1970) as Erika Kosnov Story of a Woman (1970) as Karin Ullman The Touch (1971) as Karin Vergerus Chelovek s drugoy storony (1972) as Britt Stagnelius (1972) Afskedens time (1973) as Elsa Jacobsen Scenes from a Marriage (1974) as Katarina (1974) as Blanche Huysman It's Raining on Santiago (1975) as Monique Calvé Blondie (1976) as Patricia Tauling I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Dr. Fried An Enemy of the People (1978) as Catherine Stockmann (1978) as Catherine Dumais Quintet (1979) as Ambrosia (1979) as Laura The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) as Francine Barnförbjudet (1979) as The Mother Marmalade Revolution (1980) as Anna-Berit Jag rodnar (1981) as Siv Andersson Exposed (1983) as Margaret Svarta fåglar (1983) as Simone Cambral A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon (1983) as Ann-Charlotte Leffler Sista leken (1984) as Viktor's Wife Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985, TV Movie) as Maria 'Maj' Wallenberg Huomenna (1986) as Singer Poor Butterfly (1986) as Gertrud Los dueños del silencio (1987) as Marie-Louise Wallén, Ambassador Babette's Feast (1987) as Swedish Lady-in-Waiting Creditors (1988) as Tekla Una estación de paso (1992) as Lise The Butterfly's Dream (1994) as La madre Dreamplay (1994) as Victoria Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig (2000) as Solveig Olsson Anna (2000) as Annas Mor Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002) as Tora Holm The Lost Prince (2003, TV Movie) as Queen Alexandra När mörkret faller (2006) as Svärmodern Arn – The Knight Templar (2007) as Moder Rikissa Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End (2008) as Moder Rikissa The Frost (2009) as The Widow Rat