Bibi Andersson

{{for multi|the Spanish actress and singer|Bibiana Fernández|the American actress|Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Bibi Andersson

| image = Bibi Andersson (1961).jpg

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| caption = Andersson in 1961

| birth_name = Berit Elisabet Andersson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|11|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|04|14|1935|11|11|df=y}}

| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1951–2009

| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Kjell Grede|1960|1973|end=div.}}|{{marriage|Per Ahlmark|1979|1981|end=div.}}|{{marriage|Gabriel Mora Baeza|2004}}}}

| children = 1

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Berit Elisabet Andersson (11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019),{{Cite web|url=https://www.familjesidan.se/cases/bibi-andersson/funeral-notices|title=Familjesidan.se | Dödsannonser från hela landet|website=familjesidan.se}} known professionally as Bibi Andersson ({{IPA|sv|ˈbɪ̂bːɪ ˈânːdɛˌʂɔn|lang}}), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was hailed as one of the finest European actresses of all time.

Early life and career

Andersson was born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, the daughter of Karin (née Mansion), a social worker, and Josef Andersson, a businessman.{{cite book |last1=Segrave |first1=Kerry |last2=Martin |first2=Linda |title=The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era |publisher=McFarland |year=1990 |url=https://archive.org/details/continentalactre0000segr|url-access=registration |isbn=0-89950-510-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/continentalactre0000segr/page/274 274]}}{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=H.W. |title=Current biography yearbook |publisher=H.W. Wilson Company |pages=13 |isbn=0-8242-0997-4}}

Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman came in 1951,{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/ingmar-bergman-actors |title=Eight key actors in the Ingmar Bergman universe |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=14 April 2019}} when she participated in his production of an advertisement for the detergent Bris.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jan/06/artsfeatures.advertising |title=Now wash your hands |last=Macnab |first=Geoffrey |date=6 January 2003 |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 April 2019}} She also worked as an extra on film sets as a teenager, and studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School (1954–1956). She then joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/people-news/bibi-andersson-dead-dies-ingmar-bergman-collaborator-1203189365/ |title=Bibi Andersson, 'Persona,' 'The Seventh Seal' Actress, Dies at 83 |work=Variety |date=14 April 2019 |access-date=15 April 2019}}

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Andersson starred in 10 motion pictures and three television films directed by Bergman. With Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck and Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, she shared the Best Actress Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for the director's Brink of Life, a film set in a maternity ward.{{cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/15/bibi-andersson-obituary |title=Bibi Andersson obituary |work=The Guardian |date=15 April 2019 |access-date=15 April 2019}} The other films included The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Passion of Anna, The Touch, and Persona.

In 1963, Andersson won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in Vilgot Sjöman's The Mistress.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1963/03_preistr_ger_1963/03_Preistraeger_1963.html |title=Berlinale: Prizes & Honours 1963 |website=Berlinale.de |publisher=Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin |access-date=13 February 2010}}

From the mid-1960s onwards

Andersson's intense portrayal of a nurse in the film Persona (1966) – in which actress Elizabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), suffering from a psychosomatic condition, is mostly mute – involved her delivering the majority of the dialogue. For her performance in Persona, she won the award for Best Actress at the 4th Guldbagge Awards.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=4743&iv=Awards |title=Persona |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |date=1 March 2014}} That year, she was seen alongside James Garner and Sidney Poitier in the Western Duel at Diablo.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/movies/bibi-andersson-dead.html |title=Bibi Andersson, Luminous Presence in Bergman Films, Dies at 83 |first=Anita |last=Gates |date=14 April 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=14 April 2019 |via=NYTimes.com}} More Bergman collaborations followed, and she worked with John Huston (The Kremlin Letter, 1970){{cite web |url=http://www.shockcinemamagazine.com/kremlin.html |title=The Kremlin Letter (1970) |work=Shock Cinema Magazine |access-date=14 April 2019}} and Robert Altman (Quintet, 1979, with Paul Newman).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/09/archives/film-altman-offers-apocalyptic-fantasyend-game.html |title=Film: Altman Offers Apocalyptic Fantasy:End Game |work=The New York Times |date=9 February 1979 |access-date=14 April 2019|last1=Canby |first1=Vincent }} She was actor Steve McQueen's co-star in his only film with credit as a producer, a stage adaptation by Arthur Miller of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (1977).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/11/movies/mcqueen-in-1976-enemy-of-the-people.html |title=MCQUEEN IN 1976 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE' |work=The New York Times |date=11 August 1981 |access-date=15 April 2019|last1=Maslin |first1=Janet }}

Andersson made her debut in American theatre in 1973 with a production of Erich Maria Remarque's Full Circle.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/08/archives/the-stage-remarques-full-circle-nazi-twilight-comes-to-anta-in.html |title=The Stage: Remarque's 'Full Circle' |last=Barnes |first=Clive |date=8 November 1973 |work=The New York Times |access-date=14 April 2019}} Her most famous American film is I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), which also starred Kathleen Quinlan.{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden-1977 |title=I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |last=Ebert |first=Roger |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=14 April 2019}}

In 1990, Andersson worked as a theatre director in Stockholm, directing several plays at Dramaten.{{cite web |url=https://www.dramaten.se/Medverkande/Rollboken/Person/10 |title=Arkivet Rollboken – Dramaten |website=www.dramaten.se |access-date=14 April 2019}} In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she worked primarily in television and as a theatre actress, working with Bergman and others. She was also a supervisor for the Road to Sarajevo, a humanitarian project.{{cite web |url=http://www.ingmarbergman.se/en/person/bibi-andersson |title=Bibi Andersson |website=Ingmar Bergman |access-date=14 April 2019}}

Personal life

In 1996, Andersson published her autobiography, Ett ögonblick (A Moment, or, literally, A Blink of the Eye).{{cite web |url=https://www.tradera.com/item/341226/342667786/inbunden-bok-om-bibi-andersson-ett-ogonblick-fran-1996 |title=Ett ögonblick från 1996 |work=Tradera |access-date=14 April 2019}} She was married first to the director Kjell Grede (1960, divorced) with whom she had a daughter; and secondly to politician and writer Per Ahlmark (1979, divorced).{{Citation needed |date=November 2021}} Andersson then married Gabriel Mora Baeza on 29 May 2004.{{cite web |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/ddw1jz/bibi-andersson-gift-i-hemlighet |title=Bibi Andersson gift i hemlighet |work=Aftonbladet |access-date=14 April 2019}} In 2009, she had a stroke;{{cite web |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bibi-andersson-died-actress-cause-of-death/ |title=Acclaimed actress Bibi Andersson has died, aged 83 |work=Far Out Magazine |date=14 April 2019 |access-date=14 April 2019}} an article published the following year says that from that time on she had been hospitalized and was unable to speak.{{cite web |url=http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/nu-kampar-bibi-for-att-prata-igen/ |title=Nu kämpar Bibi för att prata igen |work=Expressen |access-date=25 December 2014}}

She was the younger sister of Swedish film actress Gerd Andersson.

Andersson died on 14 April 2019, aged 83 from complications of a stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/14/bibi-andersson-dies-83/ |title=Bibi Andersson dies at 84 |website=The Washington Times |access-date=14 April 2019}}

Selected filmography

Andersson appeared in the following films:{{cite web |url=http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=PERSON&itemid=64356 |title=Bibi Andersson |work=Svensk Filmdatabas |access-date=14 April 2019}}

Miss Julie (1951) as Dancing girl (uncredited)
U-Boat 39 (1952) as Girl on the train (uncredited)
The Beat of Wings in the Night (1953) as Student at Tornelius' party (uncredited)
Stupid Bom (1953) as Elvira
Sir Arne's Treasure (1954) as Berghild
A Night at Glimmingehus (1954) as Maj Månsson
The Girl in the Rain (1955) as Lilly
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Egen ingång (1956) as Karin Johansson
Last Pair Out (1956) as Kerstin
The Seventh Seal (1957) as Mia / Mary - Jof's wife
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957, TV Movie) as Anne-Marie
Summer Place Wanted (1957) as Mona Dahlström
Wild Strawberries (1957) as Sara / Hitchhiker
You Are My Adventure (1958) as Christina Blom
Brink of Life (1958) as Hjördis Petterson
Rabies (1958, TV Movie) as Eivor
The Magician (1958) as Sara Lindqvist
The Beloved Game (1959) as Lena
The Wedding Day (1960) as Sylvia Blom
The Devil's Eye (1960) as Britt-Marie
Karneval (1961) as Monika
Square of Violence (1961) as Maria
The Pleasure Garden (1961) as Anna, Fanny's Daughter
The Mistress (1962) as The Girl
Pan (1962) as Edvarda
All These Women (1964) as Humlan
Juninatt (1965) as Britt
Ön (1966) as Marianne
About Love (1966) as Woman at the aerodrome
My Sister, My Love (1966) as Charlotte / Sister
Duel at Diablo (1966) as Ellen Grange
Persona (1966) as Alma
Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966) as Ingrid
Le viol (1967) as Marianne Séverin
The Girls (1968) as Liz Lindstrand
{{Interlanguage link|Svarta palmkronor|sv|3=Svarta palmkronor|lt=Black Palm Trees}} (1968) as Elin Pappila
{{ill|Tænk på et tal|da}} (1969) as Jane Merrild / Alice Badram
Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1969) as Margit Lindmark
The Passion of Anna (1969) as Eva Vergérus / Self
The Kremlin Letter (1970) as Erika Kosnov
Story of a Woman (1970) as Karin Ullman
The Touch (1971) as Karin Vergerus
Chelovek s drugoy storony (1972) as Britt Stagnelius
{{Interlanguage link|Mannen från andra sidan|sv|3=Mannen från andra sidan (1972)|lt=The Man from the Other Side}} (1972)
Afskedens time (1973) as Elsa Jacobsen
Scenes from a Marriage (1974) as Katarina
{{Interlanguage link|La Rivale (1974 film)|fr|3=La Rivale|lt=La Rivale}} (1974) as Blanche Huysman
It's Raining on Santiago (1975) as Monique Calvé
Blondie (1976) as Patricia Tauling
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Dr. Fried
An Enemy of the People (1978) as Catherine Stockmann
{{Interlanguage link|L'Amour en question|fr|3=L'Amour en question (film)|lt=L'Amour en question}} (1978) as Catherine Dumais
Quintet (1979) as Ambrosia
{{Interlanguage link|Twice a Woman (1979 film)|nl|3=Twee vrouwen (film)|lt=Twice a Woman}} (1979) as Laura
The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979) as Francine
Barnförbjudet (1979) as The Mother
Marmalade Revolution (1980) as Anna-Berit
Jag rodnar (1981) as Siv Andersson
Exposed (1983) as Margaret
Svarta fåglar (1983) as Simone Cambral
A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon (1983) as Ann-Charlotte Leffler
Sista leken (1984) as Viktor's Wife
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985, TV Movie) as Maria 'Maj' Wallenberg
Huomenna (1986) as Singer
Poor Butterfly (1986) as Gertrud
Los dueños del silencio (1987) as Marie-Louise Wallén, Ambassador
Babette's Feast (1987) as Swedish Lady-in-Waiting
Creditors (1988) as Tekla
Una estación de paso (1992) as Lise
The Butterfly's Dream (1994) as La madre
Dreamplay (1994) as Victoria
Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig (2000) as Solveig Olsson
Anna (2000) as Annas Mor
Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002) as Tora Holm
The Lost Prince (2003, TV Movie) as Queen Alexandra
När mörkret faller (2006) as Svärmodern
Arn – The Knight Templar (2007) as Moder Rikissa
Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End (2008) as Moder Rikissa
The Frost (2009) as The Widow Rat

Awards and honours

2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/swedens-bibi-andersson-holds-out-her-ibsen-centennial-award-news-photo/56594115 |title=Sweden's Bibi Andersson holds out her Ibsen Centennial Award |work=Getty Images |access-date=14 April 2019}}
73767 Bibiandersson, a minor planet discovered by Eric Walter Elst, is named after her.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzBsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 |title=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014 |last=Schmadel |first=Lutz D. |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319176772 |pages=192 |language=en}}