What is the best Ingrid Bergman performance of all time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.