Pia Lindström | |
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| Born | Friedel Pia Lindström (1938-09-20)20 September 1938 (age 87) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Other names | Jennie Ann Lindstrom |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Ingrid Bergman Petter Lindström |
| Relatives | Isabella Rossellini (maternal half-sister) |
Friedel Pia Lindström (born 20 September 1938) is a Swedish-American television journalist, and the first child of actressIngrid Bergman.
Lindström is the only child born to Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Swedish-American neurosurgeonPetter Lindström.[1] She was greatly affected when her mother left her father forItalian directorRoberto Rossellini. Petter Lindström sued for desertion and waged a custody battle with Bergman for their daughter, and Pia did not reunite with her mother until 1957. Her half-brother, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, was born on 7 February 1950, and her mother married Roberto Rossellini on 24 May 1950. On 18 June 1952, Lindström's twin half-sistersIsabella Rossellini and Isotta Rossellini were born.
Lindström began her broadcasting career as areporter atKGO-TV inSan Francisco in 1966[2][3] and in 1971 went toWCBS-TV inNew York City.
From 1973 to 1997, she was a newsanchorwoman and also a theater and arts critic forWNBC-TV in New York City, and made television appearances and did some acting (in mostly Italian films) before she became a news correspondent. Her Italian films includeMarriage Italian Style (1964),The Possessed (1965) andThe Queens (1966). She received twoEmmy Awards for news coverage and on-screen performance, as well as theAssociated Press Broadcaster's Award. She is now retired.[citation needed]
Married three times, Lindström has two sons, Justin and Nicholas Daly, from her second marriage, to Joseph Daly. They married on December 28, 1971.[4] She is currently married to attorney Jack H. Carley.[5]
