Trivia

Her co-star Dirk Bogarde stated that she deserved an Oscar for her performance in The Damned (1969).

Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1980.

Spoke English, French, and Italian fluently.

Her father was a fisherman in a small town in Northern Sweden.

In The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), her lines were dubbed by Angela Lansbury.

From the mid-50s she emerged as one of the finest dramatic stage and screen actresses of her country.

Trained as a ballet dancer in Stockholm and then as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

One of Ingmar Bergman's favorite actresses. They made 10 movies together: Ett drömspel (1963), The Magician (1958), After the Rehearsal (1984), Winter Light (1963), Brink of Life (1958), The Rite (1969), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Silence (1963), Hour of the Wolf (1968) and Cries & Whispers (1972).

Studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm.

She took ballet lessons as a child.

She was considered for the role of A. in Last Year at Marienbad (1961), but Delphine Seyrig was cast instead. Ingrid later went on to work with Alain Resnais in The War Is Over (1966).