Bibi Andersson Biography
Bibi Andersson (birth name Berit Elisabeth Andersson) is a Swedish actress born on 11 November 1935 in Stockholm, Sweden. For her role as the callous abbess in Arn: The Knight Templar she was awarded the Guldbagge for best supporting actress in 2007, becoming with her four trophies the most awarded actor in the Swedish Film Gala history.
Andersson studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the legendary Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm. She then joined Royal Dramatic Theater’s acting school in Stockholm.
Bibi Andersson Edad/ Age
Andersson was born on 11 November 1935 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Bibi Andersson Family
Her parents are Josef Andersson and Karin Mansion. She is sister to Gerd Andersson who is also an actress.
Bibi Andersson Spouse/ Husband
Andersson has been married thrice. She was first married to director Kjell Grede with whom she has a daughter with. She then married politician and writer Per Ahlmark from 1978 to 1981. Since 29 May 2004, Andersson has been married to Gabriel Mora Baeza.
Bibi Andersson Net Worth
Bibi Andersson has an estimated net worth of $48 Million.
Bibi Andersson Career
She made her first film debut at the age of 15 in one of Ingmar Bergman’s commercials for Bris soap, in which she played a princess who has to give a swineherd a hundred kisses in return for a bar of soap. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, she starred in more than ten Bergman-directed pictures, including Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), The Touch and Persona.
In 1956, Andersson joined Bergman’s group of actors at the Malmö Municipal Theatre, where she had the lead in Hjalmar Bergman’s “The Legend.” In 1963 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award for her role in Vilgot Sjöman’s film The Mistress at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1966 she appeared in the film Persona as nurse Alma. In the same year she also appeared other four films; My Sister, My Love, You, Duel at Diablo, Pardon and Are You for or Against?
Bibi Andersson Photo
In 1977 she did her most famous American film “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” that also starred Kathleen Quinlan. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Andersson worked primarily in television and as a theatre actress, working with Bergman among others.
In the 1980s Bibi Andersson tried her hand at directing, with productions in Stockholm of Sam Shepard’s True West and Suzanne Brøgger’s After the Orgy.
Also during the 1980s she was publicly and actively involved in peace and feminist-related issues. In the 1990s she became involved in the Sarajevo Open Road project, which aimed to bring the arts to war-torn Yugoslavia. She herself played on the stage in Sarajevo. In 2005 she performed a monologue about the 18th century Swedish noblewoman Magdalena Rudenschöld at a small theatre in Antibes.
Bibi Andersson Stroke
In 2009 she suffered a massive stroke. An article from 2010 says that she had since been hospitalized, unable to speak.
Bibi Andersson Bergman
Bibi Andersson Persona
Famed stage stress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) suffers a moment of blankness during a performance and the next day lapses into total silence. Advised by her doctor to take time off to recover from what appears to be an emotional breakdown, Elisabeth goes to a beach house on the Baltic Sea with only Anna (Bibi Andersson), a nurse, as company. Over the next several weeks, as Anna struggles to reach her mute patient, the two women find themselves experiencing a strange emotional convergence.
Initial release: 18 October 1966 (Sweden)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
Awards: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Bibi Andersson Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström) travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne (Ingrid Thulin), in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara (Bibi Andersson), a dead ringer for the doctor’s own first love.
Initial release: 26 December 1957 (Sweden)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer
Awards: Golden Bear
Bibi Andersson Movies
- A Night at Glimmingehus (1954)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Last Pair Out (1956)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Sleeman Is Coming (1957)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Summer Place Wanted (1957)
- Brink of Life (1958)
- Rabies (1958)
- The Magician (1958)
- The Devil’s Eye (1960)
- The Pleasure Garden (1961)
- The Mistress (1962)
- Square of Violence (1963)
- All These Women (1964)
- You (1966)
- My Sister, My Love (1966)
- Duel at Diablo (1966)
- Person (1966)
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966)
- Black Palm Trees (sv) (1968)
- The Girls (1968)
- Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1969)
- The Passion of Anna (1969)
- The Kremlin Letter (1970)
- Story of a Woman (1970)
- The Touch (1971)
- The Man from the Other Side (sv) (1971)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- The Rivale ( en ) (1974)
- It’s raining on Santiago ( fr ) (1975)
- Blondy (1976)
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
- An Enemy of the People (1978)
- The Love in question ( en ) (1978)
- Quintet (1979)
- Twice a Woman (nl) (1979)
- The Concorde … Airport ’79 (1979)
- Marmalade Revolution (1980)
- Exposed (1983)
- A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon (1983)
- Last Licked (1984)
- Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story (1985) (TV)
- Poor Butterfly (1986)
- Babette’s Feast (1987)
- Creditors (1988)
- Dreamplay (1994)
- The Butterfly’s Dream (1994)
- Elina: As If I Wasn’t There (2002)
- The Lost Prince (2003) (TV)
- Arn – The Knight Templar (2007)