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Actor Born: November 11, 1935 in Stockholm, Sweden Biography:Swedish actress Bibi Andersson received her training at the legendary Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, then graduated to the Royal Theatre of Stockholm. While performing in a stage production in Malmo, the 17-year-old Bibi, she was discovered for films by Ingmar Bergman, who tested her in a TV soap commercial before casting her in a small but showy role in "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955). Exhibiting a more capricious image than most Bergman heroines, Ms. Andersson played breezily insouciant characters in the otherwise sober-sided "The Seventh Seal" (1957) and "Wild Strawberries" (1958). Her first important all-dramatic assignment was the neurotic unwed mother-to-be in Bergman's "Brink of Life", for which she was honored with a Cannes Film Festival prize. Arguably her finest work under Bergman's guidance was as garrulous nurse Alma in "Persona" (1966), who gradually exchanges personalities with her... Full Biography
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