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{{Short description|Swedish actress (1920–1995)}}{{for|the Finnish figure skater|Viveca Lindfors (figure skater)}}{{Use American English|date=June 2021}}{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}}

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| birth_place = Uppsala, Sweden19952512|29}}| death_place = Uppsala, Sweden| alma_mater = Royal Dramatic Training Academy| yearsactive = 1940–1995

• {{marriage|Harry Hasso|1941|1943|end=divorced{edih}
• {{marriage|Folke Rogard|1944|1948|end=divorced}}
• {{marriage|Don Siegel|1948|1953|end=divorced}}
• {{marriage|George Tabori|1954|1972|end=divorced}}

}}| children = 3, including Kristoffer Tabori| occupation = Actress| signature = Signature Viveca Lindfors.png}}File:Viveca Lindfors in The Story of Ruth.jpg|thumb|Lindfors as the Moabite high priestess in The Story of RuthThe Story of RuthFile:Bob Fosse and Viveca Lindfors 1963.jpg|thumb|Lindfors with Bob Fosse in the Broadway revival of Pal Joey (1963)]]Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish American stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.WEB,weblink Viveca Lindfors, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, October 1, 2020,

Biography

Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden,NEWS, Lebherz, Richard, A Snow Queen In Exile,weblink Frederick News-Post, The News, December 21, 1970, Frederick, Maryland, 6, Newspapers.com, June 25, 2016, {{Open access}} the daughter of Karin Emilia Therese (née Dymling) and Axel Torsten Lindfors.Nättidningen RÖTTER – för dig som släktforskar! Viveca Lindfors genealogy site, genealogi.se; accessed May 4, 2017 (in Swedish).weblink" title="archive.today/20130125131432weblink">Viveca Lindfors profile, Hollywood.com; accessed May 4, 2017.She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros., and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 100 films, including Night Unto Night, No Sad Songs for Me, Dark City, The Halliday Brand, King of Kings, An Affair of the Skin, Creepshow, The Sure Thing, and Stargate. She appeared with actors including Stewart Granger, Ronald Reagan, Jeffrey Hunter, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Lizabeth Scott, and Errol Flynn.In 1952, she appeared on Broadway alongside Edmond O'Brien in John Van Druten's I've Got Sixpence. Two years later, she made her West End debut in J. B. Priestley's poorly received play The White Countess.Lindfors appeared frequently on television, usually as a guest star, though she played the title role in the miniseries Frankenstein's Aunt. Most of her TV appearances were in the 1950s and 1960s, with a resurgence in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1990, she won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the series Life Goes On.WEB,weblink 42nd Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series – 1990, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Television Academy, April 8, 2017, She was nominated for an Emmy in 1978 for her supporting role in the TV movie A Question of Guilt.WEB,weblink 30th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners: Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special – 1978, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Television Academy, April 8, 2017, In 1962, she shared the Silver Bear for Best Actress award with Rita Gam at the Berlin Film Festival, for their performances in Tad Danielewski's No Exit.WEB,weblink Berlinale 1962: Prize Winners, February 7, 2010, berlinale.de, November 24, 2015,weblink dead, Among her later film roles, perhaps the most memorable is the kindly and worldly wise Professor Taub in The Sure Thing (1985).{{Citation needed |date=October 2020}}In the last years of her life, she taught acting at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and had a lead role (essentially playing herself) in Henry Jaglom's Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995). The same year, she returned to the Strindberg Festival in Stockholm to perform in the play In Search of Strindberg.{{Citation needed |date=October 2020}}

Personal life

Lindfors was married four times, to Swedish cinematographer Harry Hasso, Swedish attorney and World Chess Federation president Folke Rogard, director Don Siegel, and Hungarian writer, producer, and director George Tabori. She had three children – two sons (John Tabori with Hasso, and actor Kristoffer Tabori, with Siegel) and a daughter (Lena Tabori, with Rogard).NEWS,weblink Viveca Lindfors, Stage and Film Actress, 74, The New York Times, David, Stout, October 26, 1995, April 26, 2015, NEWS,weblink Fore Rogard, 73, Ex‐Chess Official, The New York Times, June 16, 1973, October 1, 2020, Lindfors was a naturalized U.S. citizen and a liberal Democrat, who supported the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Viveca Lindfors died from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 74 in Uppsala.

Selected filmography

File:Theatre '62 The Paradine Case 1962.jpg|thumb|Lindfors, Richard Basehart and Boris Karloff in a Theatre '62Theatre '62{| class="wikitable sortable"! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" | Notes| 1940The Crazy Family (1940 film)>The Crazy Family | Lisa|| 1941| If I Could Marry the Minister | Eva Örn|| 1941| In Paradise|Angelica Jansson|| 1942| Tomorrow's Melody |Maj-Lis Wassberg|| 1942| The Woman of Sin | The Young Woman| 1942| The Yellow Clinic|Nurse Doris|| 1943| The Brothers' Woman|Emma|| 1943| The Sin of Anna Lans | Anna Lans|| 1944Appassionata (1944 film)>Appassionata| Maria|| 1944| Mist on the Sea | Maria Rosati|| 1944| I Am Fire and Air| Jenny Ahrman| | 1945Black Roses (1945 film)>Black Roses| Märta Lind|| 1945The Serious Game (film)>The Serious Game| Lydia Stille|| 1945| Maria of Kvarngarden | Maria| | 1946Interlude (1946 film)>Interlude| Vellamo Toivonen||1948|To the Victor|Christine Lund Lestrac||1948|Adventures of Don Juan|Queen Margaret||1949Singoalla (film)>Singoalla|Singoalla||1949|Night Unto Night|Ann Gracie||1950Dark City (1950 film)>Dark City|Victoria Winant||1950Backfire (1950 film)>Backfire|Lysa Radoff||1950|This Side of The Law|Evelyn Taylor||1950|No Sad Songs for Me|Chris Radna||1950|The Flying Missile|Karin Hansen||1951|Four in a Jeep|Franziska Idinger||1951|Journey Into Light|Christine Thorssen||1952The Raiders (1952 film)>Riders of Vengeance|Elena de Ortega|aka The Raiders|1955Moonfleet (film)>Moonfleet|Mrs. Minton||1955Run for Cover (film)>Run for Cover|Helga Swenson||1957|The Halliday Brand|Aleta Burris||1958|I Accuse!|Lucie Dreyfus||1958Tempest (1958 film)>Tempest|Caterine II||1959Rawhide (TV series)>Rawhide|Luisa Esquivel Y Hadley|1 episode|1960Johnny Midnight (TV series)>Johnny Midnight|Simone in episode "X Equals Murder")||1960|The Story of Ruth|Eleilat||1960|Weddings and Babies|Bea||1961King of Kings (1961 film)>King of Kings|Claudia Procula||1961Tempest (1958 film)>Tempest|Catherine the Great||1961The Untouchables (1959 TV series)>The Untouchables|Mrs. Jarreau||1961Naked City (TV series)>Naked City|Lulu Kronen|1 episode|1962No Exit (1962 film)>No Exit|Inez|aka Sinners Go to Hell|1962–1964The Defenders (1961 TV series)>The Defenders|Mady Lorne / Madeline Flanders|2 episodes|1963The Damned (1963 film)>The Damned|Freya Neilson|aka These Are the Damned|1964Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea|Dr. Laura Rettig|1 episode|196412 O'Clock High (TV series)>12 O'Clock High|Nicole Trouchard|1 episode|1965Brainstorm (1965 film)>Brainstorm|Dr. Larstadt||1965|Bonanza|Angela Bergstrom|Episode: "The Spotlight"|1965–1966|Ben Casey|Mrs. Boone / Vivian Bennett|2 episodes|1967The Diary of Anne Frank (1967 film)>The Diary of Anne Frank|Petronella van Daan|TV movie|1967–1969The F.B.I. (TV series)>The F.B.I.|Ida Salzman / Eva Bolen|2 episodes|1970 |Cauldron of Blood|Tania||1970The Interns (TV series)>The Interns|Jennie|1 episode|1972|A House Without Boundaries|Señorita Elvira||1973|The Bell from Hell|Marta||1973|The Way We Were|Paula Reisner||1976|Welcome to L.A.|Susan Moore||1978|A Question of Guilt|Dr. RosenEmmy Award nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie>OutstandingPerformance by a Supporting Actressin a Drama or Comedy Special|1978Girlfriends (1978 film)>Girlfriends|Beatrice||1978A Wedding (1978 film)>A Wedding|Ingrid Hellstrom||1979Voices (1979 film)>Voices|Mrs. Lemon||1981The Hand (1981 film)>The Hand|Doctress||1982Inside the Third Reich (film)>Inside the Third Reich|Gypsy woman|TV movie|1982|Creepshow|Aunt Bedelia|Section: "Father's Day"|1982Dynasty (1981 TV series)>Dynasty|Adriana|1 episode|1983|Dies rigorose Leben|Ada||1984|Trapper John, M.D.|Zella Korevechi|1 episode|1984Passions (1984 film)>Passions|Lila|TV movie|1984|Silent Madness|Mrs. Collins||1985|The Sure Thing|Professor Taub||1987|Frankenstein's Aunt|Hannah von Frankenstein|7 episodes|1987|Rachel River|Harriet White||1989Misplaced (film)>Misplaced|Zofia||1989|Flickan vid stenbänken|Storråda|TV series |1990Life Goes On (TV series)>Life Goes On|Mrs. DoubchaEmmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series>Outstanding GuestActress in a Drama Series|1990|The Exorcist III|Nurse X||1990|China Beach|Ilsa|1 episode|1991|Zandalee|Tatta||1991| Child of Darkness, Child of Light|Ida Walsh||1992|North of Pittsburgh|Rosa AndrettiGenie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress>Best Actress|1993|Law & Order|Helga Holtz|1 episode|1994Stargate (film)>StargateList of recurring Earth characters in Stargate SG-1#Catherine Langford>Catherine Langford||1995|Last Summer in the Hamptons|Helena Mora|">

Major stage appearances{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! Role! Theatre| 1952| I've Got Sixpence| Inez Cabral| Ethel Barrymore Theatre| 1954–55| Anastasia| AnnaLyceum Theatre (Broadway)>Lyceum Theatre| 1956| Miss Julie| Miss JuliePhoenix Theatre (New York City)>Phoenix Theatre| 1956| The Stronger| Miss YPhoenix Theatre (New York City)>Phoenix Theatre| 1956| King Lear| Cordelia| New York City Center| 1959List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams#I Rise in Flames, Cried the Phoenix>I Rise in Flames, Cried the Phoenix| Frieda| Lucille Lortel Theatre| 1962Gene Frankel#Off-Broadway>Brecht on Brecht| n/a| Lucille Lortel Theatre| 1963Pal Joey (musical)>Pal Joey| Vera Simpson| New York City Center| 1965| Postmark Zero| n/a| Brooks Atkinson Theatre| 1967| The Niggerlovers| The God, Angela| Lucille Lortel Theatre| 1971The Dance of Death (Strindberg)>Dance of Death| AliceWalter Kerr Theatre>Ritz Theatre

References

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Further reading

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External links

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• Viveca Lindfors at the University of Wisconsin's weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140502211533weblink">Actors Studio audio collection
• Edward Winter, The FIDE President and the Actress, ChessBase.com; retrieved 2009-01-20.
• Photographs and literature
• Viveca Lindfors papers, 1945–1990, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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