Bibi Andersson
An image from Scenes from a Marriage, one of the productions that also features Bibi Andersson.
Bibi Andersson

Bibi Andersson

November 11, 1935 — Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Berit Elisabet Andersson (11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019) or better known professionally as Bibi Andersson (Swedish: [ˈbɪ̂bːɪ ˈânːdɛˌʂɔn]), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman

Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom (1953), playing against Nils Poppe. Eventually, she was able to start at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1954. A brief relationship with Ingmar Bergman made her quit school and follow him to the Malmö city theatre, where he was a director, performing in plays by August Strindberg and Hjalmar Bergman. Bergman also gave her a small part in his comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), and larger roles in his Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Seventh Seal (1957). From the the 1960s she got offers from abroad, with best result in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). During the civil war in Yugoslavia she has worked with several initiatives to give the people of Sarajevo theatre and other forms of culture.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Mattias Thuresson

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

1957

Persona

Persona

1966

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

1957

Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast

1987

Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage

1974

Arn: The Knight Templar

Arn: The Knight Templar

2007

The Magician

The Magician

1958

The Passion of Anna

The Passion of Anna

1969