Bibi Andersson
Born: 1935-11-11 in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died: 2019-04-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Berit Elisabet Andersson (November 11, 1935 – April 14, 2019) or better known professionally as Bibi Andersson (Swedish: [ˈbɪ̂bːɪ ˈânːdɛˌʂɔn]), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom (1953), playing against Nils Poppe. Eventually, she was able to start at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1954. A brief relationship with Ingmar Bergman made her quit school and follow him to the Malmö city theatre, where he was a director, performing in plays by August Strindberg and Hjalmar Bergman. Bergman also gave her a small part in his comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), and larger roles in his Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Seventh Seal (1957). From the the 1960s she got offers from abroad, with best result in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). During the civil war in Yugoslavia she has worked with several initiatives to give the people of Sarajevo theatre and other forms of culture.
Filmography
2026
- Marie Göranzon - När rampljuset slocknar as Self (archive footage)
2025
- Året var 1976 as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Bilder av Bibi as Self
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2010
- Arn: The Knight Templar as Moder Rikissa
2009
- Images from the Playground as Self
- The Frost as The Widow Rat
2008
- Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End as Mother Rikissa
2007
- Arn: The Knight Templar as Mother Rikissa
- Bror & syster as moster Majken
- Women and Bergman as Self
2006
- When Darkness Falls as The Mother-in-law
- Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight
2004
- The Return of the Dancing Master as Elsa Berggren
- A Poem in Images as Self
- Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion as Self
2003
- The Lost Prince as Queen Alexandra
- Elina: As If I Wasn't There as Tora Holm
2001
2000
- Anna as Annas mor
- Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- Shit Happens as Solveig Olsson
1998
- Längtans blåa blomma as Mrs. Tidrén
- Little Big Sister as Narrator
1996
- Lines from the Heart as Self
1995
- Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
1994
- Dreamplay as Victoria
- The Butterfly's Dream as La madre
- Musikbussen as Berättare
1993
1992
- A Passing Season as Lise
1989
- Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress as Self
1988
- Creditors as Tekla
1987
- Babette's Feast as Svensk hofdame
- Los dueños del silencio as Marie-Louise Wallén
1986
- Huomenna as Laulajatar
- Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Narrator (voice)
- Poor Butterfly as Gertrud
1985
- Fridas flykt as Fridas mamma
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story as Maria 'Maj' Wallenberg
1984
- Sista leken as Viktors hustru
1983
- Exposed as Margaret
- Gråtvalsen as Berit
- A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon as Ann-Charlotte Lefler
- Savannen as Lydia
- Svarta fåglar as Simone Cambral
1981
- The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Host
- I am Blushing as Siv Andersson
1980
- Marmalade Revolution as Anna-Berit
1979
- The Concorde... Airport '79 as Francine
- Twice a Woman as Laura
- Quintet as Ambrosia
- A Look at Liv as Self
- The Elephant Walk as The Mother
1978
- An Enemy of the People as Catherine Stockmann
- Question of Love as Catherine Dumais
1977
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Dr. Fried
1976
- Confessions of a Fool as Maria
- Vortex as Patricia Tauling
- Confessions of a Fool as Maria/Siri von Essen
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Midi Première as Self
- Rain over Santiago as Monique Calvé
1974
- Scenes from a Marriage as Katarina
- After the Fall as Holga
- My Husband, His Mistress and I as Blanche Huysman
1973
- Scenes from a Marriage as Katarina
- The Hour of Parting as Elsa Jacobsen
1972
- Ingmar Bergman as Self
- The Man from the Other Side as Britt Stagnelius
1971
- The Touch as Karin Vergerus
1970
- The Kremlin Letter as Erika Kosnov
- Story of a Woman as Karin Ullman
- A Ballad of Love as Woman at the aerodrome
1969
- The Passion of Anna as Eva Vergerus
- Think of a Number as Jane Merrild
- Blow Hot, Blow Cold as Margit Lindmark
- Miss Julie as Fröken Julie
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Girls as Liz / Lysistrata
- Black Palm Trees as Elin Pappila
- An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman as Self
1967
- A Question of Rape as Marianne Séverin
- Twelfth Night as Viola
1966
- Persona as Alma
- Duel at Diablo as Ellen Grange
- The Island as Marianne
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Ingrid
- My Sister My Love as Charlotte
1965
- Juninatt as Britt
1964
- All These Women as Humlan
- Dance Around the Guldbaggen as Self
1962
- The Mistress as The Girl
- Kort är sommaren as Edvarda
1961
- The Pleasure Garden as Anna
- Square of Violence as Maria
- Karneval
1960
- The Devil's Eye as Britt-Marie
- The Wedding Day as Sylvia Blom
1959
- Den kära leken as Lena/fröken Blå, fröken Grön, fröken Vit, fröken Röd
1958
- The Magician as Sara Lindqvist
- Rabies as Eivor
- Brink of Life as Hjördis Pettersson
- You Are My Adventure as Christina Blom
1957
- The Seventh Seal as Mia
- Wild Strawberries as Sara
- Summer Place Wanted as Mona Dahlström
- Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries as Self
- Mr. Sleeman Is Coming as Anne-Marie
1956
- Last Pair Out as Kerstin
- Private Entrance as Karin Johansson
1955
- Smiles of a Summer Night as Actress
- Flickan i regnet as Lily
- The City By the Waters
1954
- Sir Arne's Treasure as Berghild
- En natt på Glimmingehus as Maj Månsson
1953
- Vingslag i natten as Girl at the graduation dinner
- Dumbom as Elvira
1952
- Ubåt 39 as Girl on a train
1951
- Miss Julie as Dancing girl (uncredited)