Liv Ullmann

Infobox actor
name = Liv Ullmann

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caption = Liv Ullmann at Cannes in 2000.
birthname = Liv Johanne Ullmann
birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1938|12|16
location = Tokyo, Japan
spouse = Gappe Stang (1960-1965)
Donald Saunders (1985-)
children = Linn Ullmann (b.1966)
goldenglobeawards = Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1973 "The Emigrants"
awards = NBR Award for Best Actress
1968 "Hour of the Wolf" ; "Shame"
1972 "The New Land"
1976 "Face to Face"
NYFCC Award for Best Actress
1972 "Cries and Whispers"
1974 "Scenes from a Marriage"
1976 "Face to Face"
Pasinetti Award for Best Actress
1980 "Richard's Things"
San Sebastian Film Festival
Silver Shell for Best Actress
1988 "La Amiga"
Donostia Award (2007)

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Norwegian actress and was the beloved muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullman has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or, and twice-nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award.

Personal life

Ullmann was born in Tokyo (where her father, an aircraft technician, was working at the time) and grew up in Trondheim , Norway. She has also lived in Canada as a child during World War II and now lives in Miami, Florida.

In addition to her native Norwegian, Ullmann speaks Swedish, English and other European languages, though with a heavy Norwegian/trøndersk accent. She is also a committed UNICEF goodwill ambassador [cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/people/25620_20184.html|publisher=UNICEF|title=Unicef People] and has traveled widely for the organization. In 2005, King Harald V of Norway awarded Ullmann with a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav [cite web|date=2005-05-13|title=People: Liv Ullmann, Sharon Stone, Seal|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/12/features/peepfri.php|publisher=International Herald Tribune] . In 2006, she received a Ph.D. "honoris causa" from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [cite web|url=http://www.ntnu.no/Honorydoc|publisher=Norwegian University of Science and Technology|title=Honorary Doctors]

Ullmann has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to Dr. Hans Jacob Stang, a Norwegian psychiatrist, whom she divorced in the late 1960s. 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. Nevertheless, in 2007 the couple still live together. [ [http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/mojo_400/91_saunders.html Donald L. Saunders] Michael Scherer, "Mother Jones," March 5, 2001]

She has one child, Linn Ullmann, fathered by Ingmar Bergman (according to her autobiography, "Changing", 1977) but born while Ullmann still was married to her first husband, Hans Jacob Stang. Ullmann also has two grandchildren, a boy and a girl, of her daughter's two marriages.

Liv Ullmann still keeps an apartment in Oslo, Norway, as well as a summer house in Sandefjord, Norway.

Career

She played lead roles in nine films by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, with whom she has a daughter, Norwegian author and journalist Linn Ullmann. A consummate psychological actress, she was the object of considerable critical acclaim during the 1960s and 1970s (awards include three Best Actress prizes from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics, two from the National Board of Review, a threesome from the New York Film Critics Circle, and one Golden Globe as well as a LAFCA honor).

Her work with Bergman, especially in the powerful "Scenes from a Marriage", turned her into a 1970s feminist and cultural icon, as well as one of the most respected actresses of her time. In addition, her natural and very photogenic Nordic red-blond beauty, fit well into the 1970s vogue. Ullmann was nominated twice for an Academy Award (for "The Emigrants" and "Face to Face"), and published two successful autobiographies ("Changing" and "Choices") while out of work in the late 1970s.

Coincidentally, two of Ullmann's biggest flops were musical adaptations of classic works. The film version of "Lost Horizon" was a critical and commercial disaster, and the Broadway production of "I Remember Mama" underwent numerous revisions during an unusually long preview period, then closed after only 108 performances.

Recently, Ullmann has been making a name for herself as a film director too (most notably with the acclaimed, Bergman-scripted drama "Faithless") and could also be seen reprising her role from "Scenes from a Marriage" in 2003's "Saraband" (Bergman's final telemovie). Faithless was close to be awarded with the prestigious Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, and the female lead, Swedish actress Lena Endre, won first prize for her performance in this film.

Ullmann was chairing the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. She introduced her daughter by Ingmar Bergman, Linn Ullmann, to the festival audience with these infamous words: "Here comes the woman whom Ingmar Bergman loves the most". Fact|date=September 2008(Her daughter was about to receive the Prize of Honour on her famous father's behalf). In 2006 Liv Ullmann publicly gave up a long-time dream of making a film based on the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House". According to herFact|date=September 2008, the Norwegian Film Fund worked against her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad. Australian actress Cate Blanchett and British actress Kate Winslet were intended for lead roles in the movie.Fact|date=September 2008

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.

Awards and Nominations

Academy Award
* Nominated: Best Actress: "The Emigrants" (1973)
* Nominated: Best Actress: "Face to Face" (1977)

BAFTA Award
* Nominated: Best Actress: "Scenes from a Marriage" (1976)
* Nominated: Best Actress: "Face to Face" (1977)

Golden Globe Award
* Won: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama: "The Emigrants" (1973)
* Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: "40 Carats" (1974)
* Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama: "Scenes from a Marriage" (1975)
* Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama: "Face to Face" (1977)
* Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama: "The Rose Garden" (1990)

Other Awards
* Recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence.

elected filmography

As actress

As director

* "Sofie" (1992)
* Kristin Lavransdatter (from the novel by Sigrid Undset) (1995): Viewed by as much as two-thirds of the population, one of Norway's most domestically successful films ever -- an important cultural event. [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1211823/Dreaming-of-the-medieval-in.html]
* "Private Confessions" (1996)
* "Faithless" (2000)

ee also

*Ingmar Bergman

References

* 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-13 978-0394539867. 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

External links

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* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,427066,00.html The Guardian/NFT interview with Shane Danielson, January 23, 2001]
* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,435340,00.html Peter Bradshaw review of "Trolösa", The Guardian, February 9, 2001]

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