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Ingrid Bergman: Performances
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Bergman's last role was on television in 1982. She played Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, in the miniseries A Woman Called Golda. Though Bergman was ill, she received critical kudos for her accurate performance. Bergman finally succumbed to cancer on her 67th birthday, August 29, 1982, in London, England. She had told Judy Kelmesrud of The New York Times a couple of years before her death, "I'm happy it all happened to me. I've had a very rich life. There was never a dull moment.
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Bergman made one last performance in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda, the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Bergman was gravely ill and losing weight. She could barely move her right arm, which had become severely swollen due to lymphedema—a complication from surgery or radiation in which fluid collects in the tissue. Still, she arrived on the set every morning at 6 a.m. for two hours of makeup, worked 12- to 15-hour sessions, and rehearsed her lines into the night.
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Bergman's health began to fail in the late 1970s, though she fought off cancer long enough to complete a TV movie, A Woman Called Golda (1982), in which she portrayed Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The performance earned her an Emmy, her final honor.
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In 1978, she played in Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. In the film, Bergman plays a celebrity pianist who returns to Sweden to visit her neglected daughter, played by Liv Ullmann. The film was shot in Norway. It is considered by many to be among her best performances.
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