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Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 - 29 August 1982) was aSwedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.

Born inStockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake ofIntermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred inCasablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, oppositeHumphrey Bogart, although she was not nominated for a Academy Award. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramasFor Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) withGary Cooper,Gaslight (1944),The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), andJoan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for theAcademy Award for Best Actress; she won forGaslight. She made three films withAlfred Hitchcock:Spellbound (1945), withGregory Peck,Notorious (1946), oppositeCary Grant andUnder Capricorn (1949), alongsideJoseph Cotten.

In 1950, she starred inRoberto Rossellini'sStromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini'sEuropa '51 andJourney to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio inAnastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romanceIndiscreet (1958). In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one forBest Supporting Actress, for her role inMurder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred inIngmar Bergman's (no relation) SwedishAutumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.

In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime MinisterGolda Meir in the television miniseriesA Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her secondEmmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering frombreast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday (29 August 1982). According to theSt. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress.David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, theAmerican Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest femalescreen legend ofClassic Hollywood Cinema.

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