Ingrid Thulin

• Name — Ingrid Thulin • Birth Name — Ingrid Lilian Thulin • Born — 27 January 1926 • Birthplace — Sollefteå, Sweden • Died — 7 January 2004 • Place of death — Stockholm, Sweden • Education — Royal Dramatic Training Academy • Occupation — * Actress • film director • Years Active — 1948-1991 • Website — www.ingridthulin.se (archived)

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.

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.

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).

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

• Illustration — Thulin with Ingmar Bergman during the production of The Silence, 1963 • 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 Blomgren Yngve 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 Albin Peter 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 Nykvist Herself Erland 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

Ingrid Thulin is recorded as having received Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress.