Ingrid Bergman - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the award-winning Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, considered by many to be one of the greatest film stars of all time, famous for acting alongside Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) in “Casablanca” (1942) winner of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1944.

The actress won three Oscar statuettes, two for Best Actress, in 1945 and 1957. “Gaslight” (1944) where she played the role of “Paula Alquist”, who after the death of her famous aunt “Miss Thwaites”, played by Mary Louise Webste, renowned British actress, better known as Dame May Whitty (1865-1948), who was an opera singer, “Paula” goes to study in Italy, where she meets and marries “Gregory Anton”, played by the French actor and singer, naturalized North American Charles Boyer (1899-1978); and for acting in the film: “Anastásia” (1956), in the role of the protagonist “Anastásia, Anna Koreff”; and also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1975, in the film “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974) playing the character “Greta”.

In addition to the Oscar, Ingrid won the Primetime Emmy Award: 1960; three Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Drama Film: 1945, 1946 and 1957, and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film: 1983; and a Tony Award for Best Leading Theater Actress: 1947

Ingrid Bergman has her star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, at 6759 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Cinema category.

Ingrid Adler Bergman, born in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, at 3:30 am on August 29, 1915, is the daughter of the German Friedel Henriette Augusta Louise Adler Bergman (1884-1918) and the Swedish artist and photographer Justus Samuel Bergman (1871-1929) who passed on his love for art to his daughter. Ingrid coincidentally passed away on the same day she was born: August 29, 1982, on the outskirts of Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, at the age of 67.

Ingrid Bergman was married three times. first with the Swedish-American neurosurgeon Petter Lindström (1907-2000) from 1937 to 1950; her second marriage was to Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) from 1950 to 1957, and finally she married Swedish theater producer and director Lars Reinhold Schmidt (1917-2009) from 1958 to 1975.

Ingrid had four children: former Swedish actress and journalist Friedel Pia Lindström (1938-) from her first marriage; and the twins: the Italian-American actress and former model Isabella Rossellini and the doctoral professor, the Italian Isotta Rossellini (1952-) and the businessman Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe ‘Robin’ Rossellini (1950-), all children from his second marriage.