Pernilla August

Pernilla August

1958-02-13 Stockholm, Sverige 77 Credits

Biography

Pernilla August (born February 13, 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 also known for her role of Shmi Skywalker in the “Star Wars” franchise.

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Surprise

Surprise

2023

as Ingrid

Acting

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead,...

The Ape Star

The Ape Star

2021

as Gorilla (voice)

5.7
Acting

The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It so...

Building Happiness

Building Happiness

2020

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years, S...

Bergman Revisited

Bergman Revisited

2019

Acting

As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman R...

Bergman Revisited

Bergman Revisited

2019

Director

Directing

As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman R...

Swoon

Swoon

2019

as Elin Lindgren

6.3
Acting

John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a...

Britt-Marie Was Here

Britt-Marie Was Here

2019

as Britt-Marie

5.2
Acting

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small...

Kursk

Kursk

2018

as Oksana

6.6
Acting

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...

Bergman: A Year in a Life

Bergman: A Year in a Life

2018

as Self

7.4
Acting

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and ...

Filmworker

Filmworker

2018

as Self

7.1
Acting

The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.

Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.

Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.

2018

as Karin Bergman

7.0
Acting

Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's...

Bergman's Reliquarium

Bergman's Reliquarium

2018

6.5
Acting

A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cr...

Scenes in the Night

Scenes in the Night

2018

as Marianne

5.7
Acting

Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.

Scenes in the Night

Scenes in the Night

2018

Director

5.7
Directing

Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.

Law of the Land

Law of the Land

2017

as Britta

6.5
Acting

A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of t...

Michael Nyqvist - Ett Porträtt

Michael Nyqvist - Ett Porträtt

2016

as Self

8.0
Acting
A Serious Game

A Serious Game

2016

Director

5.7
Directing

In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

White People

White People

2015

as Viktoria

4.1
Acting

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape...

Gentlemen

Gentlemen

2014

as Greta

6.4
Acting

Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and ch...

Trespassing Bergman

Trespassing Bergman

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...

The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence

2012

as Maja Forssman

6.1
Acting

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the ...

Call Girl

Call Girl

2012

as Dagmar Glans

6.3
Acting

Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and priva...

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

2012

as Sara Landhag

6.1
Acting

Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudde...

Beyond

Beyond

2010

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This ne...

A Rational Solution

A Rational Solution

2009

as Karin

6.0
Acting

Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when th...

Miss Kicki

Miss Kicki

2009

as Kicki

5.8
Acting

Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationshi...

Kenny Begins

Kenny Begins

2009

as Rektorn

5.9
Acting

Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his desperate attempt in graduating he a...

Women and Bergman

Women and Bergman

2007

as Self

Acting

A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Those Who Whisper

2007

as Anna Gustavsson

Acting

Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy on her bedroom floor. She have no clue...

Løven - Henrik Ibsen

Løven - Henrik Ibsen

2006

Acting

We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to h...

Search

Search

2006

as Madelene

3.3
Acting

Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that the more men she meets, the further f...

Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth

2005

as Leyla

4.6
Acting

The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prost...

Doxa

Doxa

2005

as Kristina

4.0
Acting

Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she f...

Manslaughter

Manslaughter

2005

as Nina

5.7
Acting

A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.

Blindgångare

Blindgångare

2005

Director

Directing

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himse...

Rancid

Rancid

2004

4.9
Acting

Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, lif...

Day and Night

Day and Night

2004

as Eva

6.5
Acting

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody underst...

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

2004

as Lena

Acting

A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missing. She does not understand however, what is this ...

Terrorman

2004

as (voice)

Acting

Satirical animation about Terrorman.

Daybreak

Daybreak

2003

as Agnes

6.2
Acting

Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel ...

Details

Details

2003

as Ann

4.8
Acting

Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged E...

Holy Birgitta

2003

as Heliga Birgitta

Acting

Saint Birgitta is probably the strangest woman in Swedish history - mother of eight, prophet, politician and the only Swede canonized by the Pope. His...

A Love Affair

2002

as Anna

Acting

A short Swedish drama feature.

Karlsson on the Roof

Karlsson on the Roof

2002

as Mamma

3.9
Acting

A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that’s Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn’t very shy. His door sign says "The world’s best Karlss...

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002

as Shmi Skywalker

6.6
Acting

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...

I Am Dina

I Am Dina

2002

as Hjertrud, Dina's Mother

5.5
Acting

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise...

Deadline

Deadline

2001

as Beata Ekesjö

4.5
Acting

The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Wh...

The Beginning: Making Episode I

The Beginning: Making Episode I

2001

as Self

7.3
Acting

The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-prod...

You Do the Best You Can

You Do the Best You Can

2001

as Self

Acting

Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor" mixed with interviews with fami...

Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety

Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety

2001

3.0
Acting
Gossip

Gossip

2000

as Molly Fischer

3.2
Acting

A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.

Anna

Anna

2000

as Anna Terlow

4.5
Acting

A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

as Emilie

5.6
Acting

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

Light Keeps Me Company

Light Keeps Me Company

2000

as Self

7.8
Acting

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the ...

The Birthday

The Birthday

2000

as Tove

3.2
Acting

Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. ...

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Mary, Mother of Jesus

1999

as Mary of Nazareth

4.2
Acting

Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

1999

as Mamma

5.5
Acting

In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift e...

Where The Rainbow Ends

Where The Rainbow Ends

1999

as Tove

3.5
Acting

"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in th...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999

as Shmi Skywalker

6.6
Acting

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...

In the Presence of a Clown

In the Presence of a Clown

1998

as Karin Bergman

7.0
Acting

Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsa...

The Last Contract

The Last Contract

1998

as Nina Nyman

5.6
Acting

Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister ...

The Glass-Blower's Children

The Glass-Blower's Children

1998

as Sofia

5.2
Acting

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th centu...

The Last Yankee

1997

1.0
Acting

"All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two men - a carpenter and a successful self-e...

Private Confessions

Private Confessions

1996

as Anna

6.2
Acting

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges...

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

1996

as Karin

7.2
Acting

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Death of a Juror

Death of a Juror

1995

as Vanja Holm

1.0
Acting

A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investigation. Gross' wife died in an accident and he is a...

The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

1992

as Anna Bergman

7.1
Acting

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely,...

Den döende dandyn

Den döende dandyn

1989

as Thora Dardel

7.0
Acting

A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.

The Egg

1987

Acting

A fantasy about repression and hidden menace.

The Serpent's Way

The Serpent's Way

1986

as Eva

5.6
Acting

A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife...

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark

1985

as Ofelia

7.5
Acting

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is...

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite

1983

Acting

A film about Alfred Nobel.

Hej du himlen!

Hej du himlen!

1983

Acting

A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai.

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

1983

as Anne-Marie

Acting

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

1982

as Maj

7.8
Acting

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies...

The Rooster

The Rooster

1981

as Åsa Eriksson

5.4
Acting

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with s...

Giliap

Giliap

1975

as Girl at Summer Hotel

5.3
Acting

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male...