29 Facts About Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann was born on 16 December 1938 and is a Norwegian actress and filmmaker.

Liv Ullmann acted in many of his films, including Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Passion of Anna, and Autumn Sonata.

On March 25,2022, Liv Ullmann was presented with an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her "bravery and emotional transparency that has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals".

Liv Johanne Ullmann was born in Tokyo on 16 December 1938, the daughter of Norwegian parents Janna Erbe and Erik Viggo Ullmann.

Liv Ullmann's father was an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time.

Liv Ullmann's grandfather helped Jews escape from the Norwegian town where he lived during World War II, and was thus sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died.

When Liv Ullmann was two years old, she moved with her parents to Canada and settled in Toronto, where her father worked at the Norwegian Air Force base on Toronto Island during World War II.

Liv Ullmann's mother worked as a bookseller while raising Ullmann and her sister alone.

Liv Ullmann began her acting career as a stage actress in Norway during the mid-1950s.

Liv Ullmann continued to act in theatre for most of her career and became noted for her portrayal of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House.

Liv Ullmann later acted, with acclaim, in 10 of his movies, including Persona, The Passion of Anna, Cries and Whispers, and Autumn Sonata, in the last of which her co-actress Ingrid Bergman resumed her own Swedish cinema career.

Liv Ullmann co-acted often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator Erland Josephson, with whom she made the Swedish television drama Scenes from a Marriage, which was edited to feature-movie length and distributed theatrically.

Liv Ullmann made her New York City stage debut in 1975, in A Doll's House.

Liv Ullmann featured in the widely deprecated musical movie remake of Lost Horizon during 1973.

Liv Ullmann declined it, feeling the role was too sad.

Liv Ullmann later stated in interviews that turning it down was one of the few things she really regretted.

Liv Ullmann's daughter was there to receive the Prize of Honour on behalf of her father; she would return to serve the jury herself during 2011.

Liv Ullmann published two autobiographies, Changing and Choices.

In 2003, Liv Ullmann reprised her role for Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband, Bergman's final telemovie.

Liv Ullmann was amused by the offer, and said that it was one of the few programs she regularly watched, but she turned it down.

Liv Ullmann later directed Blanchett in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney, which was performed September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non-resident Production, as well as actress and supporting performer for 2009.

In 2013, Liv Ullmann directed a film adaptation of Miss Julie.

In 2018, Liv Ullmann narrated Wars Don't End, a documentary about the Lebensborn war children.

In March 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Liv Ullmann would receive the Academy Honorary Award.

Liv Ullmann is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and has traveled widely for the organization.

Liv Ullmann is co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission.

Liv Ullmann received an honorary degree, a doctorate of philosophy, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2006.

Liv Ullmann was married to Norwegian psychiatrist Hans Jakob Stang from 1960 until they divorced in 1965.

Liv Ullmann dated Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman from 1965 to 1970, becoming his muse and frequent collaborator.