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You Get to Live a Lot of Life: An Interview with Liv Ullmann
“One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy,” Liv Ullmann writes in her 1979 memoir Changing, “is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.” In her six-decade career, Ullmann’s playacted panic attacks, psychic breaks, domestic abuse, and death. But throughout it all, she’s maintained a remarkably sunny, secure, and clear-eyed perspective on her life and work. In her memoirs (Changing and 1983’s Choices), she processed her life and her work (both as an actress and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador) in public, letting readers in on the feelings that she’s worked through in her roles and her relationships.
You could call Ullmann a “raw nerve” and mean it as a compliment. She’s an Olympic-level feeler, an athlete of emotion, physically in tune with the finest quiverings of the psyche. Her skills were a perfect match for the scripts of Ingmar Bergman, who first worked with her on 1966’s Persona. The two promptly fell in love, moved to the remote island of Fårö where Persona
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Liv Ullmann biography Norwegian actress, writer and filmmaker. She is one of the best European dramatic actresses of the 1960s and 1970s.
She starred in nine of Ingmar Bergman’s feature films.
Liv Ullmann’s childhood and family life
Liv Ullmann was born in Tokyo on December 16, 1938.
She was the second of two sisters.
Her birth in Japan was due to the fact that her father’s engineering profession, Viggo Ullmann, forced him to move frequently.
Her mother’s name was Janna Erbe Lund.
Shortly after Liv’s birth, World War II began and the German army invaded Norway.
For this reason, the family considered it prudent to move away from Europe. They chose to go to Canada.
In 1945, her father passed away as a result of a brain tumor.
Liv Ullmann was almost seven years old and returned with her mother to Norway, to the town of Trondheim.
As a child, Liv was not a good student, and sometimes she pretended to be sick to miss class. But her imagination, the taste for movies and
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Liv Ullmann (NO)
Liv Ullmann’s father was an international aircraft engineer, which explains how Liv came to be born in Tokyo and to spend her childhood in Toronto and New York. Her father died in 1944, and after the war her mother moved back to Norway with her two daughters. Liv showed an interest in acting from an early age, attending stage school in London in the mid 1950s and getting selected for leading roles such as Anne Frank and Ophelia on her return to Norway. After three minor roles in various films, her fourth was a Swedish film with a Danish director, Bjarne Henning-Jensen’s Short Is the Summer (Kort är sommaren, 1962) based on Knut Hamsun’s “Pan”, in which Liv played opposite Bibi Andersson. Having seen the film, Ingmar Bergman was taken with the similarity between the two women and cast them together in Persona (1966). Liv quickly became Bergman’s muse both in film and in real life. Despite her Norwegian origins, Liv Ullmann was perhaps the major star of Swedish films of the 1960s and 1970s.
She made
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