liv ullman

Norwegian actress and film director Liv Ullmann is an oft celebrated muse of acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Ullmann, who won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants, has also been nominated for the Palme d’Or for Faithless, a film she directed, as well as four other Golden Globe nominations. The list doesn’t end there, though, as she has also picked up two BAFTAs for her performances in face to Face and Scenes from a Marriage, as well as two Academy Award nominations for The Emigrants and Face to Face.

Though born in Japan, at two years of age, Liv’s family moved to Toronto, Ontario and then on to New York before returning to Norway. Liv has featured in tends of top films and has directed five, most recently 2014’s Miss Julie. This film starred Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton and overall was widely praised by the Norwegian press after its premiere in September 2014. In 2006 she was honoured with an honorary degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and she speaks Swedish and English as well as Norwegian and a number of other languages. Also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she has traversed the globe for the charity and also set up her own Women’s Refugee Commission. For her services King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav. Liv has also published two autobiographies and has truly lived a full and accomplished life.