Successful Scandinavian actresses in Hollywood

These 15 on-screen characters from all around the Nordics all have had uncommon worldwide accomplishment. This once-over contains distinction, wonderful money, and Hollywood’s most grand prizes like the Oscars and the Golden Globe.

Sweden

Greta Garbo is a Hollywood icon from silent film to sound

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Greta Garbo: 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990

The American Film Institute has situated Garbo as fifth of the best on-screen characters of awesome Hollywood silver screen.

Considered by various to have renamed grandness in the 1930s with her striking look and strong practical proximity, Garbo featured in films, for instance, ‘The Saga Of Gosta Berling’ (1924), ‘Delicate living animal and the Devil’ (1926), ‘Mata Hari’ (1931), ‘Thousand Hotel’ (1933), ‘Anna Karenina’ (1935), and ‘Ninotchka’ (1939). She was assigned for three Oscars for Best Actresses anyway didn’t get a statuette until 1954, when she was seen with a Honorary Award. She kicked the pail in New York in 1990 at 84 years of age.

Three-time Oscar awardee Ingrid Bergman is best known for Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman: 29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982

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Bergman is best alluded to as far as it matters for her as Ilsa Lund in ‘Casablanca’ (1942). Bergman is tied for second place of the amount of Oscars with her three statuettes, close by Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan, and Daniel Day-Lewis. (Kathrine Hepburn won four statuettes.)

The American Film Institute has situated Bergman as fourth of the best performing specialists of praiseworthy Hollywood silver screen. Bergman’s Hollywood legacy lived on through her outstanding young lady Isabella Rossellini.

Ingrid Thulin highlighted in countless Bergman’s gems

Ingrid Thulin: 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004

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Thulin customarily featured in films of understood Swedish boss Ingmar Bergman, including ‘Wild Strawberries’ (1957), ‘The Magician’ (1958), ‘The Silence’ (1963), and ‘Cries and Whispers’ (1972). Ingrid Thulin was hitched to Harry Schein, the originator of the Swedish Film Institute. She has been conceded at Cannes Film Festival and with a Guldbagge, what should be called an Oscar.

Alicia Vikander: Sweden’s most prominent Hollywood star as of now

Alicia Vikander: 3 October 1988 –

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Her employment began with appearances in different Swedish short motion pictures and TV parts. The Swedish TV sensation ‘Andra Avenyn’ (2008-2010) made her notable in Scandinavia. Her part in ‘Unadulterated’ (2010) conceded her with a Guldbagge in Sweden. Her general business started with ‘Anna Karenina’ (2012) and she is at exhibit including as Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Rider’ (2018).

Vikander was allowed an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as far as concerns her as Gerda Wegner in ‘The Danish Girl’ (2015).

Norway

Sonja Henie: a specialist figure skater turned Hollywood star

Sonja Henie: 8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969

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Henie was a noteworthy movie star and additionally a specialist figure skater, having won more Olympic and World Championship titles than some other female figure skater. Though never assigned for an Oscar, Henie was a standout amongst the most liberally repaid stars in Hollywood of her possibility. She included in film industry hits, for instance, ‘Thin Ice’ (1937), ‘My Lucky Star’ (1938), ‘Second Fiddle’ (1939), and ‘Sun Valley Serenade’ (1941).

Liv Ullmann was one of Ingmar Bergman’s fantasies

Liv Ullmann (16 December 1938 – ) together with Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) in 1968

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Liv Ullmann has acted adjacent Hollywood stars like Gene Hackman, Charles Bronson, and Kevin Spacey. Near to her acting, Ullmann has in like manner facilitated various movies and was known as a fantasy of incredible Swedish boss Ingmar Bergman, with whom she made various films. Ullmann won a Golden Globe for her execution in ‘The Emigrants’ (1971). She was moreover named for an Oscar for the already said film and furthermore for her acting in ‘Very close’ (1976).

Ullman, imagined in 1938, is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and besides the prime supporter and advantaged seat of the International Rescue Committee’s Women’s Refugee Commission.

Iceland

Anita Briem has highlighted in the hit illustrate ‘The Tudors’

The Icelandic Brigitte Bardot Anita Briem (29 May 1982 – )

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Briem started acting at the energetic age of 9 at the National Theater of Iceland. At 16 years of age, she moved to England and graduated in 2004 from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is best alluded to as far as concerns her as Jane Seymour in the TV game plan ‘The Tudors’ (2007-2010) and what’s more her part as Hannah Ásgeirsdottir in ‘Voyage to the Center of the Earth’ (2008).

Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir earned her stripes on the setting orchestrate

Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir: February 25, 1974 –

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She was considered in Reykjavik and graduated in 2001 from the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Before her motion picture calling, she acted in plays, including ‘Faust’, ‘Woyzeck’, and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – all at the Reykjavik City Theater. She is best known for her parts in the movies ‘Children’ (2006), ‘Got’ (2015), and ‘Undercurrent’ (2010).

Finland

Taina Elg won two Golden Globes in the 1950s

Taina Elg: 9 March 1930 –

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In the 1950s, Elg had a long haul contract with the astonishing age studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). She won a Golden Globes for ‘Diane’ (1956) in 1957, and another in 1958 as a ‘Remote Newcomer’. Other unmistakable films in which she has appeared fuse ‘Hercules in New York’ (1970) and ‘The Mirror Has Two Faces’ (1996).

Anneli Sauli is one of Finland’s best-known entertainers

Anneli Sauli (6 August 1932 – ) together with entertainer Carl Möhner (1921– 2005) with a dark individual to the other side in 1958.

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Sauli is a Finnish entertainer with Romani roots and appeared in 42 films starting in 1953. In the 1960s, Sauli lived and worked in Germany and after that used the name Ann Savo. A segment of Sauli’s best-known parts were in ‘Pro Sibelius’ (1962), ‘The Man Without a Past’ (2002), and ‘Heartbeats’ (2009).

Kati Outinen was seen at Cannes for her acting in Aki Kaurismäki’s photographs

Kati Outinen (17 August 1961 – ) holding a prestigious Guldbagge give

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Outinen has regularly incorporated into Finnish motion picture official Aki Kaurismäki’s films. In 2002, she won the Best Actress concede at the Cannes Film Festival as far as it matters for her in Kaurismäki’s ‘The Man Without a Past’ (2002). Other fundamental parts join the ones in ‘The Match Factory Girl’ (1990), ‘Sauna’ (2008), ‘Le Havre’ (2011) and ‘The Other Side of Hope’ (2017).

Other than her including on the silver screen, Outinen was used as a Professor in Acting at the Theater Academy Helsinki in the region of 2002 and 2013.

Denmark

Anna Karina was the image of Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpieces

Anna Karina (22 September 1940 – ) in ‘Alphaville’ (1965)

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Anna Karina, one of the impressive expressive images of 1960s silver screen, was portrayed by The New York Times as “one of the screen’s mind boggling delights and a persevering picture of the French New Wave.” Her distinction hails from her planned exertion with prominent French official Jean-Luc Godard, having incorporated into films like ‘The Little Soldier’ (1960), ‘A Woman Is a Woman’ (1961), ‘Band of Outsiders’ (1964) and ‘Alphaville’ (1965).

Other than acting, Karina is in like manner a songstress and film official.

Ghita Nørby included more than 100 movies over 60 years

Ghita Nørby: 11 January 1935 –

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With 117 film credits in the region of 1956 and 2005, Nørby is a champion among the most unique Danish performing craftsmen ever. Generally called ‘The First Lady of Danish Cinema’, she is a five-time champ of Bodilpriset in Denmark and moreover “Guldbagge” in Sweden. A bit of her parts have been in ‘Charles’ Aunt’ (1959), ‘Katinka’ (1988), ‘The Cook’ (2002), and ‘Calm Heart’ (2014).

Ghita Nørby similarly lent her voice to a couple of Disney movies, for instance, ‘Pocahontas’ (1995) and ‘Mulan’ (1998).

Connie Nielsen is best known for including in ‘Contender’

Connie Nielsen: 3 July 1965 –

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Nielsen may be best known as far as it matters for her in ‘Contender’ (2000), yet she has in like manner incorporated into Other film industry hits, for instance, ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ (1997), ‘One Hour Photo’ (2002), ‘Nymphomaniac’ (2014), ‘Contemplate Woman’ (2017), and ‘Value League’ (2017).

Preceding Nielsen’s Hollywood jump forward she highlighted in French and Italian films. Nielsen has one of her two kids with her past accessory, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

Iben Hjejle included in the Hollywood film industry hit ‘High Fidelity’

Iben Hjejle: 22 March 1971 –

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All around, Hjejle’s most astounding part is in film official Stephen Frears’ ‘High Fidelity’ (2000). Hjejle has highlighted in films including ‘Mifune’s Last Song’ (1999), ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ (2001), and ‘Resistance’ (2008).

These 15 on-screen characters from all around the Nordics are recorded in a planned exertion with Louise Wallenberg, Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University,

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