Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was denounced on the floor of the United States Senate for having a child with the director she had written to, and won two more Academy Awards after they finished with her. She was orphaned young in Stockholm, trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and was brought to Hollywood by Selznick, who wanted to change her name, her eyebrows and her teeth; she refused all three and was photographed with almost no makeup, which was itself a novelty. Casablanca, Gaslight and Notorious made her the most respectable star in America. In 1949 she wrote to Roberto Rossellini saying she had seen Rome, Open City and would work for him for nothing; they made Stromboli, she became pregnant while both were married to other people, and a senator called her a powerful influence for evil. She did not work in America for seven years. She came back in Anastasia and won the Oscar, and won a third for Murder on the Orient Express. She died of cancer on her sixty-seventh birthday. She won Academy Awards for Gaslight in 1944, Anastasia in 1956 and Murder on the Orient Express in 1974, and was nominated four more times. She spoke five languages and acted in all of them. She had three children with Rossellini, including Isabella and Isotta Ingrid, and a daughter, Pia, by her first marriage, whom she did not see for years during the scandal. In 1972 a different senator apologised for the 1950 denunciation on the Senate floor. Her last performance was as Golda Meir, made while she was terminally ill and could barely use one arm.

• Lived: 1915 CE – 1982 CE
• Nationality: Swedish
• Roles: artist