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7	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ingrid-Bergman.jpg]]
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9	->''"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."''
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11	Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 -- August 29, 1982) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] actress. She won three UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the Creator/AmericanFilmInstitute. She is widely remembered for her performance as Ilsa Lund in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' (1942) and is known as one of Hollywood's greatest classical beauties.
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13	In her lifetime, Bergman had the reputation of being the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, and created a legendary scandal in the 1940s when she abandoned her husband and child, started an affair with married director Creator/RobertoRossellini, and became pregnant on the set of ''Stromboli''. This scandal was denounced on the floor of the US Senate, with Bergman becoming more or less PersonaNonGrata in America. She had written to Rossellini after seeing his film ''Film/{{Paisan}}'' and wanted to make serious films, and their resulting love affair and brief marriage resulted in three children and five movies. After their breakup, she returned to the stage and became more sporadic, with ''Film/AutumnSonata'' being her [[TheLastDance last serious role]].
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15	Mother of Creator/IsabellaRossellini. Not to be confused with, and not related to, another famous Swede in the film industry, Creator/IngmarBergman (though he did direct her once in ''Film/AutumnSonata'' AND later married a woman named Ingrid, thus sharing his last name).
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17	!!Notable roles:
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19	* ''Film/{{Swedenhielms}}'' (1935)
20	* ''Intermezzo'' (1936) - Swedish film remade in the U.S. in 1939 with Creator/LeslieHoward; Bergman starred in both versions.
21	* ''Film/WalpurgisNight'' (1936)
22	* ''Film/TheFourCompanions'' (1938) - made in Nazi Germany, believe it or not
23	* ''Film/{{A Womans Face\|1938}}'' (1938) - Swedish film (''En kvinnas ansikte''); remade in the U.S. in 1941 with Creator/JoanCrawford.
24	* ''Film/RageInHeaven'' (1941)
25	* ''[[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' (1941)
26	* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' (1942) - her most iconic and StarMakingRole.
27	* ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' (1943)
28	* ''Film/{{Gaslight}}'' (1944) - won her first Academy Award, for Best Actress.
29	* ''Film/TheBellsOfStMarys'' (1945)
30	* ''Film/SaratogaTrunk'' (1945)
31	* ''Film/{{Spellbound\|1945}}'' (1945) - her first collaboration with Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
32	* ''Film/{{Notorious\|1946}}'' (1946) - her second collaboration with Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
33	* ''Film/ArchOfTriumph'' (1948)
34	* ''Film/UnderCapricorn'' (1949) - her third and final collaboration with Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
35	* ''Film/{{Stromboli}}'' (1950) - her first collaboration with Creator/RobertoRossellini.
36	* ''Film/{{Europe 51}}'' (1952) - her second collaboration with Creator/RobertoRossellini.
37	* ''Film/JourneyToItaly'' (1954) - her fourth collaboration with Creator/RobertoRossellini.
38	* ''Elena and Her Men'' (1956)
39	* ''Film/{{Anastasia}}'' (1956) - won her second Academy Award for Best Actress; marked her Hollywood comeback.
40	* ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' (1958)
41	* ''Film/TheYellowRollsRoyce'' (1965)
42	* ''Theatre/CactusFlower'' (1969)
43	* ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express\|1974}}'' (1974) - won her third and final Academy Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress. In her acceptance speech, she famously said "it's always nice to get an Oscar" (and surely she would know).[[note]]She is tied for second-most total Oscars won by an actor, alongside Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Frances [=McDormand=]. At the time, she was tied for first with Brennan and Creator/KatharineHepburn, who would not win her fourth Oscar until 1982.[[/note]]
44	* ''Film/AutumnSonata'' (1978) - Her last feature film, and only film with Creator/IngmarBergman.
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46	!!Tropes:
47	* AwesomeDearBoy:[[invoked]] She lobbied for Charles Boyer to play Gregory alongside her in ''Gaslight'', even though his contract stipulated top billing, because she wanted to work with him.
48	* ContractualPurity:[[invoked]] American audiences came to remember her best for playing Joan of Arc or a nun in ''Film/TheBellsOfStMarys'', despite having plenty of more varied roles in her filmography; even [[{{Film/Casablanca}} her most famous one]] technically has her as an adulteress. As such, it was a huge scandal when she left her husband for Roberto Rosselini, even being denounced on the floor of the US senate. A popular narrative surrounding her was that the scandal led to her being blacklisted by Hollywood, when in actuality, she merely moved to Europe to make different films from the ones she was making there (which is how the affair happened in the first place).
49	* CreatorBacklash:
50	-->''"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is [[Film/{{Casablanca}} that one]] with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogart]]."''
51	* DawsonCasting:[[invoked]] In ''Anastasia'', she was 41, and the real Anastasia would have been 27 at the time the story takes place.
52	* DiedOnTheirBirthday: Passed away on her 67th birthday.
53	* DyeingForYourArt:[[invoked]] She cut her hair short to play Maria in ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''. This would have a knock-on effect for ''Casablanca'' (see below).
54	* EnforcedMethodActing:[[invoked]] As ''Gaslight'' was shot out of order, George Cukor would recap the entire events of the story up until the scene to be filmed that day to get her in the right mindset. She initially grew tired of this and they stopped doing it, but the studio noted that the performances afterwards weren't as good, so they resumed.
55	* FakeNationality:[[invoked]] She played Joan of Arc, who was of course famously French. And in ''For Whom The Bell Tolls'', she plays the Spanish Maria.
56	* PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]]
57	** In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'', she was in the running for the role of TheIngenue but she requested to play the bad girl to do something different. Creator/LanaTurner then ended up in the other role, also going against type.
58	** ''Gaslight'' was also this. She normally played very strong-willed and independent women, and she herself was unsure about playing a character who spends most of the movie being psychologically tortured.
59	* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle:[[invoked]] An example preventing a change. The plan was to refilm the "As Time Goes By" sequence in ''Casablanca'' with a new piece of music, but Ingrid had cut her hair for ''For Whom The Bell Tolls'', which made reshoots impossible. "As Time Goes By" is of course now considered an iconic part of the film.
60	* RealitySubtext:[[invoked]] The storyline of ''Anastasia'' was about a former royal reclaiming her throne, and the press salivated over comparing it to Ingrid's own departure from Hollywood and touted it as her comeback. It would end up paralleling real life, since the film has Anastasia deciding not to reclaim the throne, and the actress continued to work in Europe with only the occasional Hollywood picture.
61	* RomanceOnTheSet:[[invoked]]
62	** Infamously with Roberto Rosselini on the set of ''Film/{{Stromboli}}'', and she left her husband for him.
63	** She and Gregory Peck had a brief affair during ''Film/{{Spellbound\|1945}}''.
64	* ScullyBox: She was unusually tall for a leading lady at the time, requiring quite a number of her male co-stars to stand on a box, wear platforms or employ other tricks so they wouldn't appear diminutive next to her. She once quipped that her favorite male co-star was Creator/GaryCooper because she didn't have to take her shoes off to stand next to him.
65	* SmallReferencePools: She's highly regarded as one of the greatest stars of the '40s and for her work with Creator/AlfredHitchcock but few have seen her films with Rossellini or ''Elena and Her Men''. Her film with Ingmar Bergman, ''Autumn Sonata'', is well known, however.

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