Viveca Lindfors (1920 - 1995) فيفيكا ليندفورس

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A Swedish-American actress, born in Uppsala, Sweden, as Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors. She married four men and had three children. She won a number of awards, such as the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival Award in 1962 and the Primetime Emmy...Read more Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 1990. Among her most important works are Adventures of Don Juan (1948), The Hand (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Stargate (1994). Viveca Lindfors' artistic career spanned half a century in theater and cinema in Sweden and the United States. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm, and after a short time, she became a theater star in Sweden. She made her film debut in 1940 and continued to work in Swedish and Italian films until 1946, when she was attracted to Hollywood after being signed by Warner Bros., hoping that she would be the new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She worked on Broadway before appearing in her first American film, To the Victor (1948). Her work in Hollywood continued alongside work in some Swedish, French, and Swiss films, in addition to theatrical work. Then she participated in television work repeatedly as a guest on series, which she did extensively during the eighties, and at the beginning of the nineties, she taught acting at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She presented her last cinematic work, Run for Cover, in 1995. She died in Uppsala, Sweden, on October 25, 1995, from complications of rheumatoid disease.

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Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Stargate (1994)

The Way We Were (1973)

Welcome to L.A. (1976)

Creepshow (1982)

The Exorcist III (1990)

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  • A Swedish-American actress, born in Uppsala, Sweden, as Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors. She married four men and had three children. She won a number of awards, such as the...Read more Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival Award in 1962 and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 1990. Among her most important works are Adventures of Don Juan (1948), The Hand (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Stargate (1994). Viveca Lindfors' artistic career spanned half a century in theater and cinema in Sweden and the United States. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm, and after a short time, she became a theater star in Sweden. She made her film debut in 1940 and continued to work in Swedish and Italian films until 1946, when she was attracted to Hollywood after being signed by Warner Bros., hoping that she would be the new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She worked on Broadway before appearing in her first American film, To the Victor (1948). Her work in Hollywood continued alongside work in some Swedish, French, and Swiss films, in addition to theatrical work. Then she participated in television work repeatedly as a guest on series, which she did extensively during the eighties, and at the beginning of the nineties, she taught acting at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She presented her last cinematic work, Run for Cover, in 1995. She died in Uppsala, Sweden, on October 25, 1995, from complications of rheumatoid disease.

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  • Birth Name:
  • Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors
  • Birth Country:
  • Sweden
  • Death Country:
  • Sweden

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