Harriet Andersson
Highest Rated: 100% Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Lowest Rated: 27% All These Women (1964)
Birthday: Feb 14, 1932
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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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 |
83% | 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 | 65% | 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 | No Score Yet | Loving Couples | Agda (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Siska | Unknown (Character) | - | 1962 |
100% | 92% | Through a Glass Darkly |
Karin/ |
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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 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sandhamn Murders | Signe (Character) | 2010 |