Liv Ullmann

On August 14, 2019, she was honored with a day of her film work during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.

As of 2018, has starred in two Best Picture Oscar nominated films: The Emigrants (1971) and Cries & Whispers (1972).

2006: Her performance as Elisabet Vogler in Persona (1966) is ranked #49 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

Revealed on a Norwegien talk-show November 2003 that the only TV shows she watches regularly are Sex and the City (1998) and Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)

President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 54th Cannes International Film Festival in 2001.

Was offered guest-starring role in the last episodes of the TV series Sex and the City (1998) that took place in Paris, France. At first she was delighted at the idea since she and her husband were both fans of the show, but when she received the script for the episodes she felt she wasn't right for the part, and backed out.

Featured on the cover of the album "See The Ocean Blue," by Blue Ocean (as/correct name: The Ocean Blue). [1996]

Head of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival in 1984.

Her name and professional reputation were invoked in the film S.O.B. (1981), as motivation for Julie Andrews character to do a partial nude scene.

Was offered the role of "Kate Miller" in Dressed to Kill (1980) by director Brian De Palma, but turned the role down due to the violence of the theme and having a young daughter at the time.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 31st Cannes International Film Festival in 1978.

In 1977, she was made a Knight (Ridder) of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by King Olav V; in 1994, she was promoted to Commander (Kommandør) of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by King Harald V; and in May 2005, she was made Commander with Star (Kommandør med stjerne) of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by King Harald V, a huge honor in Norway, which is rarely bestowed upon civilians.

She and Ingmar Bergman made 10 movies together: Face to Face (1976), Autumn Sonata (1978), The Passion of Anna (1969), Persona (1966), Saraband (2003), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Serpent's Egg (1977), Shame (1968), Hour of the Wolf (1968) and Cries & Whispers (1972).

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Awards: in 1975, as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "A Doll's House," by Henrik Ibsen, and in 1977, as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "Anna Christie," by Eugene O'Neill.

She appeared in four films with Maximilian Schell: Pope Joan (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Players (1979) and The Rose Garden (1989).

She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar Bergman in such films as Persona (1966), The Passion of Anna (1969) and Face to Face (1976).

Is one of six performers with multiple Oscar nominations for foreign language films; the others are Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987) (Italian), Sophia Loren for Two Women (1960) and Marriage Italian Style (1964) (Italian), Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H (1975) and Camille Claudel (1988) (French), Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls (2000) and Biutiful (2010) (Spanish), and Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Two Days, One Night (2014) (French). Ullmann was nominated for her performances in The Emigrants (1971) and Face to Face (1976) (Swedish).

Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-'50s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut.