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Born to Norwegian parents in Tokyo; educated at Webster-Douglas Academy, London. A luminously beautiful, consummately talented performer, Ullmann is chiefly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, by whom she has a daughter, Linn. She was an established Norwegian stage talent before being chosen by Bergman -- partly due to her resemblance to Bibi Andersson -- to co-star in PERSONA (1966). For the next decade and a half, though frequently in international productions, Ullmann's best work was in Swedish films, where her gift for interpreting emotionally wrought characters was displayed in Bergman films such as THE SHAME (1968), SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (1973), FACE TO FACE (1976) and AUTUMN SONATA (1978), as well as Jan Troell's THE EMIGRANTS (1971) and its sequel THE NEW LAND (1972).
Ullmann reached the peak of her worldwide popularity in the late 1970s, making her Broadway debut in A Doll's House (1975) and publishing her autobiography, Changing, in 1977; she was also the subject of a feature-length documentary, A LOOK AT LIV (1977). Ullmann made a successful transition to middle-aged roles and in the 1980s continued as a reigning talent of both cinema and theater. Other notable credits include POPE JOAN (1972), LOST HORIZON and 40 CARATS (both 1973), A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977), PLAYERS (1979), RICHARD'S THINGS (1981), THE WILD DUCK (1983), GABY: A TRUE STORY (1987), OXEN (1991), DRØMSPEL / DREAMPLAY (1994) and "Saraband" (2003, TV).
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