Liv Ullmann

Norwegian actress born in Tokyo who became an outstanding dramatic actress of Swedish and international films, winning a New York Film Critics Award for "Crime And Whispers," 1972 and adding Hollywood films after 1973. For her apprenticeship, she toured with a successful theater company for three years.

Her childhood included frequent moves as her dad was a military engineer. After he was stationed in Tokyo, the Nazi occupation blocked their return to their home in Norway and they were forced to move to Canada . In 1943, sadly, her father walked into an aircraft prop; he died later. After the war, her mother moved her and her sister back to Norway.

In 1960 she married a psychologist, a marriage that lasted for five years. She met Ingemar Bergman, in 1964, a major influence in her life as her future lover and mentor,. They began a five-year love affair that never resulted in marriage, but they had a child, Linn, in 1966. The following year she made her film debut in "Persona."

Her autobiography, "Changing," was published in 1977. She made a second marriage in September 1985.