Biography
Actress Liv Ulman is a business card of Norway in the world. In 1994, the artist, together with the traveler and writer, Tour Heyerdal Norwegians awarded the honor to open the Olympic Games in Lillehammer. Now in the theaters of Scandinavia with great success is a performance that reveals aspects of the personal life and creativity of Liv.Childhood and youth
Future movie star, purebred Norwegian, was born on December 16, 1938 in the capital of Japan. Liv Yohana (this is the full name of the artist) - the second daughter of the aviation engineer Eric Viggo Ulman, from May 1937, who worked under the contract in Tokyo, and his wife Zhanna Erbe. The older sister of the actress, which appeared on the light in September 1936, was named after Parents Zhanna Eric.
When Liv was 2 years old, Ulmans moved to the Canadian city of Toronto: Eric Viggo served in the Norwegian air base in the province of Ontario. Then the family lived in New York.
In 1943, the Father of the Artist received a combat wounded. In 1945, the head of the family died of a brain tumor. Erica Viggo's death became a shock for Zhanna Erika and Liv. In the autobiographical book "Changes", the actress admitted that in his youth I was looking for a satellite of life similar to the Father.
After the war, the orphaned family returned to Norway and settled in Trondheim. To raise daughters, Jeanne Erbe worked at the bookstore by the seller.
At the age of 17, Liv threw the school in Trondheim and went to the capital of Great Britain, where for 8 months he studied acting at the School of singing and dramatic art of Webber Douglas, in which they subsequently mastered the artistic craft Rupert Evans and Julia Ormond.
Theater and films
Returning after studying in Norway, Ulman began to play in provincial theaters. In 1957, the girl debuted into a movie in the film "Fools in the Mountains", staged by the first Norwegian lady-director Edith Carlmar. Liv in the picture, and now the remaining one of the most popular film engines in the Wiking country, got an episodic role nameless hotel hotel. A beginner actress was not indicated in the credits.In 1962, Ulman created the image of KARI in the Norwegian drama "Tony" participating in the Berlin Film Festival. At the same time, Liv progressed as a theater actress and soon became one of the most successful executors of the role of a hole in the "Puppet House" of Herarca Ibsen.
The worldwide glory fell into a rustle for his generation Norwegian (Growth Ulman 170 cm) after acquaintance and began cooperation with Ingmar Bergman. The director approved Liv on a major role in the painting "Person" without samples, barely met her in Stockholm in the company of Swedish actress Bibi Anderson. According to the story of Heroine Ulman - actress, silenced in the middle of the play and saving to a strange stupor. On the advice of the doctor, a woman rides relaxing at the seaside, where she is trying to talk a nurse with a short haircut in the execution of Anderson.
In the interview with 2015, Liv said that, removing in Person, did not understand the heroine. Realized the desire to silence forever Ulman, only reaching 40 years of age. In the future, the actress was starred in a number of Bergman films, including in his swan song "Sarandand" ribbon.
The Franco-Italian-Belgian Criminal Thriller director Terens Yang "Cold Pot" was becoming the first non-Balgian picture of Ulman, in which Norwegian played the wife of the Central Character Joe Marten. The criminal past of the hero reminds itself with sudden interference in a peaceful family life. In 1977, Ulman starred as part of the brilliant acting ensemble, in which Derk Bogard and Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Lawrence Olivier, in the Military Dram Richard Attenboro "Bridge too far."
Among the tapes, from participation in which the Norwegian actress refused, "Fanny and Alexander" Bergman, "Razor" Brian de Palm, "Twelve friends Ocehen" Stephen Soderberg and the series "Sex in the Big City". Since 1982, Liv serves as a director. Two of the Ulman films supplied - "private confessions" and "incorrect" are based on the works of Ingmar Bergman.
Personal life
In his youth, Liv was married to the doctor Hans Jacob Stang. The second marriage of Ulman with an American businessman Donald Leslie Sonders lasts from 1985 to the present.
In the intervals between marriages, Liv had novels with actor and playwright John Litgo, Serbian journalist Dragan Babich, as well as with director Andron (Andron) Konchalovsky. According to legend, Ulman first dreamed of the older son of the author of the Soviet (and later and Russian anthem), and then a man, being in Oslo, presented a bouquet after a performance. Amented by charm of the poet's sibling, the actress spent the summer at the dacha of Mikhalkov in the Moscow region and appeared several times at hand with Andron Sergeyevich in secular events. However, then the feelings of lovers were cooled.
The most fruitful were the relations of the Norwegian actress with Ingmar Bergman. In addition to roles in 10 films of the Matra, they gave Liv's only Lynn's daughter, whose photo can be seen in an instagram-acount of Ulman-senior. Having matured, the heiress of the creative dynasty described the relationship of parents in the work of "anxiety", put in 2018 at the Swedish stage with actress and director of Pernilla August.
To live together with Ulman, the "person" director built a house on the island of Foro. But the creative couple could not cope with his "demons." After parting with Bergman-lover Liv retained the loyalty to Bergman-director.
Personal experience former civil husband and wife laid the film "Scenes from Married Life", published on screens in 1972. Seeing the game of the Norwegians in this picture, her American colleagues Lisa Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Shirley Macmene published a letter in which Ulman's best from the actress.
Liv Ulman now
In June 2021, it became known that Liv would receive in 2022 honorary "Oscar" for the contribution to the cinema. Along with the Norwegian actress, in the biography of which there was already a number of nominations for the American Film Academy Award for the best female role, Prizes were awarded Samuel L. Jackson and Elaine Mei.Filmography
- 1966 - "Person"
- 1968 - "Wolf Hour"
- 1968 - "Shame"
- 1969 - "Passion"
- 1970 - "Cold Pot"
- 1971 - "Emigrants"
- 1971 - "Parrot"
- 1972 - "Messages"
- 1972 - "Sheeps and screams"
- 1973 - "Scenes from married life"
- 1975 - "Face to face"
- 1975 - "Leonor"
- 1975 - "Magic Flute"
- 1977 - "Snake Egg"
- 1977 - "Bridge too far"
- 1978 - "Autumn Sonata"
- 1991 - "Dispan"
- 2003 - "Sarabanda"
- 2012 - "Two Life"