Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious , an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains.
Bergman, named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden, was born onAugust 1915 in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Bergman, and his German wife, Frieda Bergman. When she was two years of age, her mother died. Her father, who was an artist and photographer, died when she was 13. In the years before he died, he wanted her to become an opera star, and had her take voice lessons for three years. But she always knew from the beginning that she wanted to be an actress, sometimes wearing her mothers clothes and staging plays in her fathers empty studio. Her father documented all her birthdays with a borrowed camera.
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