With a father who was a Norwegian engineer working abroad, Liv Ullmann lived as a child in Tokyo, Japan,Canada, New York, Oslo and Norway. In the middle of the 1950s she debuted at the theatre and soon after, in1957, also at the movies. Her career, already established in both media, became more successful when she metSwedish director Ingmar Bergman for whom she played some of her best roles like in En Passion (1969)and Ansikte mot ansikte (1976). Her international career began with Abdication (1974) or LaDiagonale du fou (1984).