Liv Ullmann
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 Liv Ullmann at Cannes in 2000. |
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| Born | Liv Johanne Ullmann 16 December 1938 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Actress/Director |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Religion | Christianity[1][2] |
| Spouse | Gappe Stang (1960–1965) Donald Richard Saunders (1985–1995)[3] |
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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[edit] Life
Ullmann was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Janna (née Lund) and Viggo Ullmann, an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time.[3] Ullmann grew up in Trondheim, Norway. She lived in Canada as a child during World War II. She resides in Miami, Florida.
[edit] Career
Ullmann began her acting career on the Norwegian stage in the mid 1950s. She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. She went on to act to significant acclaim in 10 of his most admired films, including Persona in 1966, The Passion of Anna in 1969, Cries and Whispers in 1972 and Autumn Sonata, in which her co-star, Ingrid Bergman, made her return to Swedish cinema. She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically. Ullmann appeared with Laurence Olivier in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far in 1977.
Nominated more than 40 times for awards, including various lifetime achievement awards, she won the best actress prize three times from the National Society of Film Critics and twice from the National Board of Review, received three awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and a Golden Globe. In 1971, Ullmann was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for The Emigrants, and again in 1976 for Face to Face.
In 1973 Ullmann made her New York stage debut in the unsuccessful Broadway revival of I Remember Mama. The show underwent numerous revisions during a long preview period, then closed after 108 performances. She also starred in the nearly universally panned film version of Lost Horizon in 1973.
Ullmann's first film as a director was 1992's Sofie, in which she directed her friend and former co-star, Erland Josephson. She went on to direct the Bergman-penned Faithless and in 2003 reprised her role from Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband, Bergman's final telemovie. Faithless garnered nominations for both the Palme d'Or and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1984, she chaired the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival,[4] and in 2002 chaired the jury of Cannes Film Festival. She introduced her daughter, Linn Ullmann, to the audience with the words: "Here comes the woman whom Ingmar Bergmann loves the most". Her daughter was there to receive the Prize of Honour on behalf of her father; she would return to take a place on the jury herself in 2011. In 2006 Ullmann announced that she'd been forced to give up on her dream of making a film based on A Doll's House. According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was blocking her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project. Australian actress Cate Blanchett and British actress Kate Winslet had been cast intended in the lead roles in the movie. She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire (play) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non-resident Production as well as actress and supporting performer for 2009. The play was also mounted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
Ullmann narrated the Canada/Norway co-produced animated short film The Danish Poet, which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.
On 10 December 2010, Ullmann participated in the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. She read "I have no Enemies," the words of 2010 Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, a human rights advocate imprisoned in China. In Mr. Liu's absence, the medal and diploma were placed on an empty chair on the stage.
She published two autobiographies, Changing and Choices in the late 1970s, during which time she became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
[edit] Private life
In addition to Norwegian, Ullmann speaks Swedish, English and other European languages. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador[5] and has traveled widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission. In 2005, King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav.[6] In 2006, she received a PhD honoris causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[7]
Ullmann has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to Hans Jacob Stang, a Norwegian psychiatrist, whom she divorced in 1965. According to her biographer, Ketil Bjørnstad, the marriage was marred by infidelities on both sides. In the 1980s, she married Boston real estate developer Donald Saunders, whom she divorced in 1995. The couple continued to live together until 2007.[8]
She has one child, Linn Ullmann, fathered by Ingmar Bergman in 1966; the two lived together for five years. Ullmann has two grandchildren, a boy and a girl, of her daughter's two marriages.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Notes |
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| 1992 | Sofie | Montreal World Film Festival Special Grand Prize of the Jury Montreal World Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Montreal World Film Festival Most Popular Film |
| 1995 | Kristin Lavransdatter[9] | (from the novel by Sigrid Undset) |
| 1996 | Private Confessions | Nominated—Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival[10] |
| 2000 | Faithless | Amanda Ecumenical Film Award Goya Award for Best European Film Nominated—Palme d'Or, 2000 Cannes Film Festival[11] Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director |
[edit] References
- ^ Vårt Land - Liv Ullmann stoler på Gud
- ^ Vårt Land - Tror på tilgivelse
- ^ a b "Liv Ullmann Biography (1939— )". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/40/Liv-Ullmann.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1984 Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1984/04_jury_1984/04_Jury_1984.html. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ "Unicef People". UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/people/25620_20184.html.
- ^ "People: Liv Ullmann, Sharon Stone, Seal". International Herald Tribune. 2005-05-13. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/12/features/peepfri.php.
- ^ "Honorary Doctors". Norwegian University of Science and Technology. http://www.ntnu.no/Honorydoc.
- ^ Donald L. Saunders Michael Scherer, Mother Jones, 5 March 2001
- ^ "Viewed by as much as two-thirds of the population, one of Norway's most domestically successful films ever – an important cultural event". Goliath.ecnext.com. 2003-09-22. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1211823/Dreaming-of-the-medieval-in.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15.[dead link]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Private Confessions". festival-cannes.com. http://www.cannes-1997.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4832/year/1997.html. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Faithless". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5190/year/2000.html. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
[edit] Further reading
- Robert Emmet Long, ed. (2006), Liv Ullmann: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-823-1, 1-57806-824-X (paper). Collected interviews with Ullmann
- Liv Ullmann (1984), Choices. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-53986-9. ISBN 978-0394539867. Autobiography
- David Outerbridge (1979), Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-Biography. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0-68803441-1
- Liv Ullmann (1977), Changing. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-41148-X. Autobiography
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Liv Ullmann |
- Liv Ullmann at the Internet Movie Database
- Liv Ullmann at the TCM Movie Database
- Liv Ullmann at the Internet Broadway Database
- Liv Ullmann on Charlie Rose
- Works by or about Liv Ullmann in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Liv Ullmann collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Liv Ullmann at the Notable Names Database
- The Guardian/NFT interview with Shane Danielson, 23 January 2001
- Peter Bradshaw review of Trolösa, The Guardian, 9 February 2001
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