Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Lilian Thulin (; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish and international critics. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in Brink of Life and the inaugural Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Silence (1963), and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for Cries and Whispers (1972).

Early life and education Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter of Nanna (née Larsson) and Adam Thulin, a fisherman. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1948.

Career For many years she worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman. Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958, in which she spent much of the film dressed as a boy), Winter Light (1962), The Silence (1963), The Rite (1969) and Cries and Whispers (1972).

She shared the Best Actress award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival and received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1964, the first year the award was given out, for her performance in The Silence.

In 1968, she was cast by Luchino Visconti in his historical epic of Nazi Germany, The Damned. Thulin's performance earned a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. In 1976, Thulin was the protagonist of another film with a similar theme, Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass.

Winner of the David di Donatello Awards 1974, Thulin was also nominated for the BAFTA Award the same year. In 1980, she was the head of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.

Personal life Her second marriage was with Harry Schein, the founder of the Swedish Film Institute, whom she was married to for more than 30 years until their divorce 1989, although they lived separately for many years before divorcing. She bought an apartment in Paris, France, in the early 1960s, and some years later a beach house in San Felice Circeo, Italy. In 1970, she became a resident of Sacrofano, Italy, where she lived for 34 years. Her memoir was published in 1992 ("Någon jag kände" ("Somebody I knew"); Norstedts Förlag; ).

Death She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm on 7 January 2004.

Legacy The municipality of Sollefteå, where Thulin is buried, has given out an Ingrid Thulin Memorial Scholarship annually since 2008. The Scholarship (which is valued at SEK 20,000), is open to any applicants pursuing the arts. It is sponsored by actress Harriet Andersson, Thulin's longtime personal friend.

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Director Notes 1948 Jørund Smed Girl Åke Ohberg 1949 Son of the Sea Gudrun Rolf Husberg 1949 Love Wins Out Margit Dahlman Gustaf Molander 1950 Jack of Hearts Gunvor Ranterud Hasse Ekman 1950 When Love Came to the Village Agneta Arne Mattsson 1951 Living on 'Hope' Yvonne Göran Gentele 1952 Encounter with Life Viola Gösta Werner 1952 Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo Elsa Ivar Johansson 1953 A Night in the Archipelago Ingrid Bengt Logardt 1953 The Chieftain of Göinge Anna Ryding Åke Ohberg 1954 Dance in the Smoke Woman in haystack Bengt BlomgrenYngve Gamlin Uncredited 1954 Två sköna juveler Lilly Fridh Rolf Husberg 1955 The Dance Hall Cecilia Börje Larsson 1955 Whoops! Malou Hjorthage Stig Olin 1956 Foreign Intrigue Brita Sheldon Reynolds 1957 Never in Your Life Lily Arne Ragneborn 1957 Wild Strawberries Marianne Borg Ingmar Bergman 1958 Brink of Life Cecilia Ellius Ingmar Bergman 1958 The Magician Manda Vogler Ingmar Bergman 1960 Domaren Brita Randel Alf Sjöberg 1962 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Marguerite Laurier Vincente Minnelli 1962 Agostino Agostino's Mother Mauro Bolognini 1963 Winter Light Märta Lundberg Ingmar Bergman 1963 The Silence Ester Ingmar Bergman 1963 Sekstet Elaine Annelise Hovmand 1963 Espionage (TV series) Celeste Stuart Rosenberg Episode: "The Incurable One" 1964 Games of Desire Nadine Hans AlbinPeter Berneis 1965 Return from the Ashes Dr. Michele 'Mischa' Wolf J. Lee Thompson 1966 The War Is Over Marianne Alain Resnais 1966 Night Games Irene Mai Zetterling 1967 Domani non siamo più qui Gioia Brunello Rondi 1968 Hour of the Wolf Veronica Vogler Ingmar Bergman 1968 A Devil Under the Pillow Camila José María Forqué 1968 Badarna Cook Yngve Gamlin 1968 Adélaïde Elisabeth Hermann Jean-Daniel Simon 1968 Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy Nando Girl José Luis Madrid 1969 The Rite Thea Winkelmann Ingmar Bergman Television film 1969 The Damned Baroness Sophie Von Essenbeck Luchino Visconti 1971 Short Night of Glass Dolls Jessica Aldo Lado 1971 N.P. il segreto N.P.'s wife Silvano Agosti 1972 Cries and Whispers Karin Ingmar Bergman 1973 La sainte famille Maria Pierre Koralnik 1974 En handfull kärlek Inez Crona Vilgot Sjöman 1975 Moses the Lawgiver Miriam Gianfranco De Bosio Miniseries; 6 episodes 1975 Monismanien 1995 Personundersökare Kenne Fant 1975 Hélène Pierre Granier-Deferre 1976 Salon Kitty Kitty Kellermann Tinto Brass 1976 L'Agnese va a morire Agnese Giuliano Montaldo 1976 The Cassandra Crossing Dr. Elena Stradner George Pan Cosmatos 1978 En och en Ylva Sven NykvistHerselfErland Josephson Also co-director 1980 It Rained All Night the Day I Left Unnamend Role Nicolas Gessner Uncredited cameo 1984 After the Rehearsal Rakel Egerman Ingmar Bergman 1987 Il Giorno prima Mrs. Havemeyer Giuliano Montaldo 1987 Orn Women Fred de Fooko 1991 The House of Smiles Adelina Marco Ferreri Last film role