What is the best Ingrid Bergman performance of all time?

By YPB Team

Three Academy Awards, a filmography spanning four decades from Casablanca to Autumn Sonata, and a presence that defined golden-age Hollywood glamour. Which role is the definitive Ingrid Bergman?

  1. Casablanca — ranked #11
    Casablanca
    The 1942 romantic drama in which Bergman's Ilsa Lund became one of cinema's most iconic characters, torn between love and duty in wartime Morocco opposite Humphrey Bogart.
  2. Gaslight — ranked #22
    Gaslight
    The 1944 psychological thriller that won Bergman her first Best Actress Oscar, delivering a harrowing portrayal of a woman being driven insane by her manipulative husband.
  3. Notorious — ranked #33
    Notorious
    The 1946 Hitchcock espionage thriller in which Bergman plays the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, recruited by the US government and caught in a triangle of love, jealousy, and betrayal.
  4. Anastasia — ranked #44
    Anastasia
    The 1956 drama that marked Bergman's triumphant return to Hollywood, winning her second Oscar for playing a mysterious amnesiac woman who may be the last surviving Romanov.
  5. Autumn Sonata — ranked #55
    Autumn Sonata
    The 1978 Ingmar Bergman drama in which she gives a searing performance as a world-renowned pianist confronting her estranged daughter in an emotionally devastating chamber piece.
  6. Murder on the Orient Express — ranked #66
    Murder on the Orient Express
    The 1974 Agatha Christie adaptation in which Bergman won her third Oscar (Supporting Actress) for a brief but unforgettable turn as a nervous, devout Swedish missionary.
  7. Spellbound — ranked #77
    Spellbound
    The 1945 Hitchcock psychological thriller in which Bergman plays a psychiatrist who falls for a patient claiming to be someone else, unraveling a mystery involving repressed memories.
  8. Joan of Arc — ranked #88
    Joan of Arc
    The 1948 epic in which Bergman fulfills a lifelong dream of playing the French saint, delivering a passionate and physically demanding performance that earned an Oscar nomination.
  9. The Bells of St. Mary's — ranked #99
    The Bells of St. Mary's
    The 1945 sequel to Going My Way in which Bergman earned an Oscar nomination as a warm, determined nun butting heads with Bing Crosby's easygoing priest over the future of their school.
  10. For Whom the Bell Tolls — ranked #1010
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    The 1943 Hemingway adaptation in which Bergman earned her first Oscar nomination as a young Spanish woman who falls in love with an American guerrilla fighter during the Civil War.
  11. Indiscreet — ranked #1111
    Indiscreet
    The 1958 romantic comedy in which Bergman sparkles opposite Cary Grant as a glamorous actress entangled with a diplomat who pretends to be married to avoid commitment.
  12. Voyage in Italy — ranked #1212
    Voyage in Italy
    The 1954 Roberto Rossellini drama in which Bergman plays a British woman whose marriage unravels during a trip to Naples, a film later hailed as a masterpiece of Italian neorealism.
  13. Stromboli — ranked #1313
    Stromboli
    The 1950 Rossellini film in which Bergman plays a displaced Lithuanian woman who marries a fisherman to escape an internment camp, only to find herself trapped on a volcanic island.
  14. Intermezzo — ranked #1414
    Intermezzo
    The 1939 romantic drama that brought Bergman to Hollywood, playing a young pianist who falls into a doomed affair with a famous married violinist.
  15. Under Capricorn — ranked #1515
    Under Capricorn
    The 1949 Hitchcock period drama set in colonial Australia, in which Bergman plays a tormented noblewoman battling alcoholism and the dark secrets of her husband's past.

Comments

Bergman won her third Oscar as a nervous Swedish missionary on that train, then said publicly that Valentina Cortese deserved it more: https://youpick.best/articles/agatha-christie-ranked-many-ways

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