Trivia

Spoke English, French, and Italian fluently.

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

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

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

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

In Les quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse (1962), her lines were dubbed by Angela Lansbury.

One of Ingmar Bergman's favorite actresses. They made 10 movies together: Ett drömspel (1963), Le visage (1958), Après la répétition (1984), Les communiants (1963), Au seuil de la vie (1958), Le rite (1969), Les Fraises sauvages (1957), Le silence (1963), L'Heure du loup (1968) and Cris et chuchotements (1972).

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

She took ballet lessons as a child.

Studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm.

She was considered for the role of A. in L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961), but Delphine Seyrig was cast instead. Ingrid later went on to work with Alain Resnais in La guerre est finie (1966).