Liv Ullmann is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Norvegienne born on 16 december 1938 at Tokyo (Japon)
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Birth name Liv Johanne UllmannNationality NorvegeBirth 16 december 1938 (85 years) at Tokyo (
Japon)
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. She is known as one of the "muses" of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants (1971), and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations for her performances in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Face to Face (1976), and two Academy Award nominations for The Emigrants and Face to Face.
Biography
In addition to Norwegian, Ullmann speaks Swedish, English and other European languages.
Ullmann has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to Hans Jacob Stang, a Norwegian psychiatrist, whom she divorced during 1965. According to her biographer, Ketil Bjørnstad, the marriage was marred by infidelities on both sides. She had a long affair with her colleague Ingmar Bergman from 1965-70. One result of the affair was her only child, Linn Ullmann, born 9 August 1966.
During the 1980s, she married Boston real estate developer Donald Saunders, whom she divorced during 1995. The couple continued to live together until 2007.
She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has traveled widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission. In 2005, King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav.
In 2006, she received an honorary degree, dr. philos. honoris causa, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Best films
(2012)
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(1972)
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