10 Facts About Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Thulin was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish and international critics.

Ingrid Thulin won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in Brink of Life and the inaugural Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Silence, and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for Cries and Whispers.

Ingrid Thulin took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1948.

Ingrid Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries, The Magician, Winter Light, The Silence, The Rite and Cries and Whispers.

Ingrid Thulin 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.

Ingrid Thulin's performance earned a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

In 1976, Ingrid 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, Ingrid Thulin was nominated for the BAFTA Award the same year.

Ingrid Thulin bought an apartment in Paris, France, in the early 1960s, and some years later a beach house in San Felice Circeo, Italy.

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