Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1935-11-11
Day of Death
2019-04-14
Place of Birth
Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Bibi Andersson
Biography
Berit Elisabet Andersson (November 11, 1935 – April 14, 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.
Filmography (109)
Marie Göranzon - när rampljuset slocknar
2026
Året var 1976
2025
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022Bilder av Bibi
2014
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Images from the Playground
2009
The Frost
2009
Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
2008
Women and Bergman
2007
Arn: The Knight Templar
2007
When Darkness Falls
2006Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight
2006
A Poem in Images
2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
