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Harriet Andersson

Highest Rated: 100% Light Keeps Me Company (2000)

Lowest Rated: 27% All These Women (1964)

Birthday: Feb 14, 1932

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Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden

A sensual, stunningly beautiful member of Ingmar Bergman's troupe, Harriet Andersson was featured in many of the director's early classics. Unlike other typical Swedish leading ladies, Andersson was dark-haired, but her outsider appearance was used to smoldering, even kittenish appeal. She began by performing dance halls while still a teenager and at age 18 made her screen debut in "Medan Staden Sover/While the City Sleeps" (1950). Bergman cast her two years later using her coarse but sensual appeal to good effect in "Summer with Monika" (It is a still photograph from this film that Jean-Pierre Leaud steals in Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterpiece "The 400 Blows.") For the director, she was often the lower-class girl, as in her circus performer in "Sawdust and Tinsel" (1953) or her maid Petra in the comic "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955). Bergman elevated her somewhat as the schizophrenic in "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961) and the dying sister in "Cries and Whispers" (1972) but in their final screen collaboration "Fanny and Alexander" (1981) had her back as a kitchen maid.

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Highest rated movies

100% 69% Light Keeps Me Company
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100% 89% Smiles of a Summer Night
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100% 77% A Lesson in Love
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100% 83% Monika
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100% 94% Fanny and Alexander
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100% 92% Through a Glass Darkly
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93% 80% Liv & Ingmar
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91% 90% Cries and Whispers
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91% 84% Sawdust and Tinsel
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70% 89% Dogville
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Filmography

Movies

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93% 80% Liv & Ingmar Unknown (Character) $5.5K 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet ...But Film Is My Mistress Unknown (Character) - 2010
70% 89% Dogville Gloria (Character) $1.5M 2003
100% 69% Light Keeps Me Company Self - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beyond the Sky Miss Kjaer (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heaven and Hell Jasmin Marias mor (Character) - 1988
100% 94% Fanny and Alexander Justina (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Sabina Monica (Character) - 1979
91% 90% Cries and Whispers Agnes (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 44% The Girls Marianne (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Roman Mathaswintha (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart Sofia (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 64% The Deadly Affair Ann Dobbs (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Adventure Starts Here Anna Englund (Character) - 1965
27% 44% All These Women Isolde (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 80% Loving Couples Agda (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Siska Unknown (Character) - 1962
100% 92% Through a Glass Darkly Karin/Sister (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wedding Night Hanka (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crime in Paradise Eva Malmborg (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman in a Fur Coat Marianne (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Girl of Solbakken Ingrid Granliden (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Couple Out Anita (Character) - 1956
50% 74% Dreams Doris (Character) - 1955
100% 89% Smiles of a Summer Night Petra the Maid (Character) - 1955
100% 77% A Lesson in Love Nix (Character) - 1954
91% 84% Sawdust and Tinsel Anne (Character) - 1953
100% 83% Monika Monika (Character) - 1952

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No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sandhamn Murders Signe (Character) 2010