Pernilla August (Swedish pronunciation: [pæˈɳɪ̂lË a ˈǎʊɡɵst]
(listen); born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a
Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's
leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar
Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film
Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions. She is best known
for portraying Shmi Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I â€" The Phantom
Menace and Star Wars: Episode II â€" Attack of the Clones.August
started acting during her childhood in theatre and at school. Her
professional acting career started in 1975 when director Roy Andersson
cast her in a minor role in the film Giliap the same year, followed
from 1979 by films by other directors, Vilgot Sjöman (among them, the
film about Alfred Nobel, 1983) and Lasse Hallström. She studied
acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm
1979â€"82. Before finishing her studies, she attracted the attention
of Ingmar Bergman, who cast her in his film Fanny and Alexander
(1982), playing the nanny in the director's romanticised portrait of
his childhood. That marked the beginning of two decades of
collaboration, collecting several international awards, including
television series The Best Intentions (1991), where she portrayed
Bergman's mother and met her second husband to be, director Bille
August, and TV-productions Private Confessions (1996), directed by Liv
Ullmann and Bergman's own In the Presence of a Clown (1997).She also
starred in Bo Widerberg's The Serpent's Way (1986) as well as his
TV-production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1989). Among the many
Scandinavian and international films are also Bille August's Jerusalem
(1996), Richard Hobert's Where the Rainbow Ends (1999) [granted her a
Guldbagge Award as Best actress] and The Birthday (2000], I Am Dina
(2002), Björn Runge's Om jag vänder mig om/If I Turn Around (2003)
[a Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival 2004 and more
Best actress awards], Per Fly's Manslaughter (2005), Swedish-Taiwanese
Miss Kicki (2009) and Jan Troell's Truth and Consequence (2012).At the
Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, she has acted in several plays,
starting 1981, several directed by Ingmar Bergman and touring
internationally. These include Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
(1986) [a part she has also played in another Swedish television film,
1985], August Strindberg's A Dream Play (1986), Nora in Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House (1989), Hermione in Bergman's special version of A
Winter's Tale (1994), the title role in Schiller's Mary Stuart (2000)
and Helene Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts (2002). She also worked with
Russian director Jurij Ljubimov in Alexander Pushkin's A Feast in the
Time of Plague (1996). In 1983-84, she worked at Folkteatern i
Gävleborg (The Folk Theatre in Gävleborg) with director Peter
Oskarson in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. In 2008, she acted in the
stage production of Steel Magnolias in Stockholm.
(listen); born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a
Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's
leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar
Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film
Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions. She is best known
for portraying Shmi Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I â€" The Phantom
Menace and Star Wars: Episode II â€" Attack of the Clones.August
started acting during her childhood in theatre and at school. Her
professional acting career started in 1975 when director Roy Andersson
cast her in a minor role in the film Giliap the same year, followed
from 1979 by films by other directors, Vilgot Sjöman (among them, the
film about Alfred Nobel, 1983) and Lasse Hallström. She studied
acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm
1979â€"82. Before finishing her studies, she attracted the attention
of Ingmar Bergman, who cast her in his film Fanny and Alexander
(1982), playing the nanny in the director's romanticised portrait of
his childhood. That marked the beginning of two decades of
collaboration, collecting several international awards, including
television series The Best Intentions (1991), where she portrayed
Bergman's mother and met her second husband to be, director Bille
August, and TV-productions Private Confessions (1996), directed by Liv
Ullmann and Bergman's own In the Presence of a Clown (1997).She also
starred in Bo Widerberg's The Serpent's Way (1986) as well as his
TV-production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1989). Among the many
Scandinavian and international films are also Bille August's Jerusalem
(1996), Richard Hobert's Where the Rainbow Ends (1999) [granted her a
Guldbagge Award as Best actress] and The Birthday (2000], I Am Dina
(2002), Björn Runge's Om jag vänder mig om/If I Turn Around (2003)
[a Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival 2004 and more
Best actress awards], Per Fly's Manslaughter (2005), Swedish-Taiwanese
Miss Kicki (2009) and Jan Troell's Truth and Consequence (2012).At the
Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, she has acted in several plays,
starting 1981, several directed by Ingmar Bergman and touring
internationally. These include Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
(1986) [a part she has also played in another Swedish television film,
1985], August Strindberg's A Dream Play (1986), Nora in Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House (1989), Hermione in Bergman's special version of A
Winter's Tale (1994), the title role in Schiller's Mary Stuart (2000)
and Helene Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts (2002). She also worked with
Russian director Jurij Ljubimov in Alexander Pushkin's A Feast in the
Time of Plague (1996). In 1983-84, she worked at Folkteatern i
Gävleborg (The Folk Theatre in Gävleborg) with director Peter
Oskarson in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. In 2008, she acted in the
stage production of Steel Magnolias in Stockholm.
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