Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (28 August 1921 – 27 November 2015) was a Swedish stage and film actress.
Biography
She was born in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, Sweden, the daughter of Alma (
née
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Ärnström) and Erik Hiort af Ornäs. She had a brother, Torbjorn.
Along with
Bibi Andersson,
Eva Dahlbeck
Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck (8 March 1920 – 8 February 2008) was a Swedes, Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film ''Brink of Life'' (1958). Dahlbeck ...
, and
Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Lilian Thulin (; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish and in ...
, she won the
Best Actress Award at the
1958 Cannes Film Festival
The 11th Cannes Film Festival took place from 2 to 18 May 1958. French writer Marcel Achard served as Jury President for the main competition.
The '' Palme d'Or'' was awarded to '' The Cranes Are Flying'' by Mikhail Kalatozov.
Juries
The follo ...
for ''
Brink of Life''.
In 1989, she was given the
Litteris et Artibus for her services to the arts in Sweden. Hiort af Ornäs died in
Bromma
Bromma () is a Boroughs of Stockholm, borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in the western part of Stockholm, Sweden, forming part of the Stockholm Municipality. Bromma is primarily made up of Bromma Parish and Västerled Parish. The fourth largest airpo ...
on 28 November 2015, aged 94.
Partial filmography
* ''
Imprisoned Women'' (1943) - Kaj
* ''
Youth in Danger'' (1946) - Bibbi Nicklasson
* ''Flickan från tredje raden'' (1949) - Dagmar Antonsson
* ''
Fiancée for Hire'' (1950)- Gertrud Stenström
* ''
While the City Sleeps'' (1950) - Rutan
* ''
Count Svensson'' (1951) - Greta Svensson
* ''
Barabbas
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'' (1953) - Maria of Magdala (uncredited)
* ''
Darling of Mine'' (1955) - Linda Loy
* ''
Das Fräulein von Scuderi'' (1955) - La Martiniere
* ''Sju vackra flickor'' (1956) - Adele Hellgren
* ''
Vägen genom Skå'' (1957) - Emma
* ''Som man bäddar...'' (1957) - Secretary
* ''Spielbank-Affäre'' (1957) - Schulleiterin
* ''
A Guest in His Own House'' (1957) - Lisen
* ''
Brink of Life'' (1958) - Nurse Brita
* ''Pojken i trädet'' (1961) - Mother
* ''Lita på mej älskling'' (1961) - Juror (uncredited)
* ''
All These Women'' (1964) - Beatrica
* ''
Loving Couples'' (1964) - Lilian von Pahlen - née Vind-Frijs
* ''
Shame
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Definition
Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, d ...
'' (1968) - Kvinna i flyktingbåten
* ''...som havets nakna vind'' (1968) - Aida
* ''Som natt och dag'' (1969) - Madeleine
* ''Eva - den utstötta'' (1969) - Jenny Berggren
* ''
The Passion of Anna'' (1969) - Woman in Dream (uncredited)
* ''Skräcken har 1000 ögon'' (1970) - Barbro, Sven's Aunt
* ''
The Touch'' (1971) - Karin's Mother (uncredited)
* ''
Scenes from a Marriage'' (1973) - Stefan's mother
* ''Bröllopet'' (1973) - Karin Löfgren
* ''
What the Swedish Butler Saw'' (1975) - Jack's Mother
* ''Mackan'' (1977) - Skolkökslärarinna
* ''Den nya människan'' (1979) - Lärere
* ''
Father to Be'' (1979) - Greta, sjuksyster
* ''
Sällskapsresan 2 – Snowroller'' (1985) - Stig Helmers mamma
* ''
S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa'' (1988) - Stig Helmers mamma
* ''Amelia'' (1991) - Yvonne, Gösta's mother
* ''
Den ofrivillige golfaren'' (1991) - Mamma
* ''Selma & Johanna - En roadmovie'' (1997) - Grandma
* ''
Hälsoresan – En smal film av stor vikt'' (1999) - Mamma
* ''Den utvalde'' (2005) - Mormor
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1921 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Swedish actresses
Swedish film actresses
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Actresses from Gothenburg
Litteris et Artibus recipients