Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. Her mother died when she was only 2 and her father died when she was 12. She went then to live with an elderly uncle.

At 18, after school graduation, the lonely and shy girl decided to become an actress. In 1934 she debuted in the Swedish film Munkbrogreven. Three years later she married Dr. Peter Lindstrom and in 1938 she gave birth to a daughter, Friedel Pia. In May, 1939, she arrived in New York to do a remake of Intermezzo. The beginning of WWII in Europe urged her and her family to return to America in 1940. In 1942 came out Casablanca and the picture made her a star of the first rank. Her acting in the next film For Whom the Bells Tolls (1943) won her an Academic Award nomination. In late 1943 she began working on Gaslight, which won her the 1944 Academy Award.

She returned to Europe after the scandalous publicity surrounding her affair with italian director Roberto Rosselini during the filming of Stromboli (1950). In the same month the film was released she gave birth to a boy, Robertino. A week after her son was born she divorced Dr. Lindstrom and married Rosselini in Mexico.

In June, 1952, she gave birth to the twin daughters Isabella and Isotta. From 1951 to 1955 she and her husband did a series of films that were badly received. Tired and convinced that she would never make a succesfull film with Rosselini, she returned to Hollywood and triumphed in Anastasia (1956), for which she received another Oscar.

In 1957 she divorced Rosselini and the next year she got married to Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy swedish shipping family. She received a third Oscar for her role in Murder of the Orient Express (1974).

By 1975 she got divorced again. In 1978 she starred Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata. In the late 1970s she first discovered the symptoms of cancer and had undergone a mastectomy. Her last role was in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1981). For it, she won (posthumously) television's Emmy Award as outstanding actress in a mini-series. She died in London, on August 29, 1982, after having a small birthday party with a few friends.