Ingrid Lilian Thulin (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd tɵˈliːn]; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish film actress.

Spouses

Life and career

Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter of Nanna (née Larsson) and Adam Thulin, a fisherman. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by The Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten") in Stockholm 1948.

For many years she worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman; among other films, Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958, where she acted dressed as a boy), in Winter Light (1962), as well as The Silence (1963) and Cries and Whispers (1972).

She shared the Best Actress award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival and received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1964, the first year the award was given out, for her performance in The Silence. Winner of the David di Donatello Awards 1974, Thulin was also been nominated for the BAFTA Award the same year. In 1980, she was the head of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.

She was married to Harry Schein, the founder of the Swedish Film Institute, for more than 30 years until 1989, although they had lived separately for many years before the divorce. She bought an apartment in Paris, France in the early 1960s and some years later a beach house in San Felice Circeo, south of Rome. In 1970 she became a resident of Sacrofano (Italy), where she lived for 34 years.

She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm, Sweden, 20 days shy of her 78th birthday. Her memories were published in 1992 ("Någon jag kände" ("Somebody I knew"); Norstedts Förlag, ISBN 91-1-919472-2).

Partial filmography

• Leva på 'Hoppet' (1951)
  Director: Göran Gentele
• Foreign Intrigue (1956)
  with Robert Mitchum
  Director: Sheldon Reynolds
• Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries (1957)
  with Victor Sjöström
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Ansiktet / The Magician (1958)
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Domaren / The Judge (1960)
  Director: Alf Sjöberg
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
  with Glenn Ford
  Director: Vincente Minnelli
• Nattvardsgästerna / Winter Light (1962)
  with Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow and Gunnel Lindblom
• Agostino (1962)
  Director: Mauro Bolognini
• Tystnaden / The Silence (1963)
  with Gunnel Lindblom
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• La guerre est finie / The War Is Over (1966)
  with Yves Montand
  Director: Alain Resnais
• Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf (1968)
  with Max von Sydow
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• La caduta degli dei / The Damned (1969)
  with Dirk Bogarde, Helmut Berger
  Director: Luchino Visconti
• Viskningar och Rop / Cries and Whispers (1972)
  with Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• La corta notte delle bambole di vetro / Short Night of Glass Dolls (1972)
  with Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach
  Director: Aldo Lado
• En handfull kärlek / A Handful of Love (1974)
  Director: Vilgot Sjöman
• Salon Kitty (1976)
  with Helmut Berger
  Director: Tinto Brass
• La Cage (fr) (1976)
  with Lino Ventura
  Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
• Efter repetitionen / After the Rehearsal (1984)
  with Erland Josephson
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Il Giorno Prima / Contrôle (1987)
  with Ben Gazzara, Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan
  Director: Giuliano Montaldo