Biography
Gunnel Lindblom (born Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom, 18 December 1931 – 24 January 2021 Gothenburg, Sweden), was a Swedish film actress and director. As an actor she was particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim. Married to senior lecturer Stu...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
as Self
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 ...

Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018
as Self - Filmmaker
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, wi...

Gunnel Lindblom: ut ur tystnaden
2018
The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.

Bergman's Reliquarium
2018
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cr...

Afternoon Encounter
2017
She wants a divorce, a cleaning prior to death - but he refuses. Here’s an old couple that can’t stand each other, other than as memories. The film is...

Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling
2015
as Self
A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world. Her works were ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009
as Isabella Vanger
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a mi...

Women and Bergman
2007
as Self
A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

The Ghost Sonata
2007
as Mumien
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. H...

The Girl from Auschwitz
2005
as the voice
A portrait of the legendary Swedish journalist and writer Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012). She was only fourteen when she alone was brought to the conc...

Light Keeps Me Company
2000
as Self
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 ...

Når mørket er forbi
2000
as Anna
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trou...

Expectations
1997
as Eva
A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unkno...

Lines from the Heart
1996
as Self
The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figure...

Nadja
1995
as Grandmother
Summer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.
Betraktelse
1994
Director, Writer
An elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, colle...

Hedda Gabler
1993
as Juliane Tesman
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th...

Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen
1993
as Self
Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies

Captain Escalaborns
1991
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched t...

True women
1991
Director, Adaptation, Producer
The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a...

Summer Nights on Planet Earth
1987
Director, Screenplay
Gunnel Lindblom twists every plot and family conflict to the breaking point in her intense infidelity drama about a family on the verge of a nervous b...

Bakom jalusin
1984
as Bente Sanders
A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following ...
Helligtrekongersaften
1981
Director, Writer
Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awakens the love of the beautiful Olivia (Susse Wold). V...

Sally and Freedom
1981
as Nora
About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and t...

Sally and Freedom
1981
Director
About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and t...

Tamara - La Donna d'Oro
1981
as Tamara (voice)
About the artist Tamara de Lempicka. At the outbreak of the World War One she fled Poland and settled in Paris. She was quickly drawn into the interac...

Misfire
1978
as Alma Andersson
A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.

Summer Paradise
1977
Writer, Director
Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation...
Sing Beautifully About Love
1976
Director
A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.

Scenes from a Marriage
1974
as Eva
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier ...

Brother Carl
1971
as Lena Holmberg
Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative...

The Lie
1970
as Anna Fromm
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
The Father
1969
as Laura
The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting.

The Girls
1968
as Gunilla / Kalonike
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and ma...

The Vicious Circle
1967
as Maria
Maria, a young woman is processing her life trauma. She travels head-first to a small village and finds shelter at an inn, inhabited by a dysfunctiona...

Woman of Darkness
1966
as Anna Månsdotter
Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long t...

Hunger
1966
as Ylajali
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is de...

The Dance of the Heron
1966
as Elena
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch ...
Miss Julie
1965
as Miss Julie
Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.

Rapture
1965
as Karen
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph dev...

Loving Couples
1964
as Adele Holmström
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthfu...

Är du inte riktigt klok?
1964
as Ellen Ringmar
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with anothe...

My Love Is Like a Rose
1963
as Ninni Ahlgren
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doct...

The Silence
1963
as Anna
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into...

Winter Light
1963
as Karin Persson
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
1960
as Margit, Roberts fru
Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.

The Virgin Spring
1960
as Ingeri
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles ...

Måsen
1959
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the...

Rabies
1958
as Jenny
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / hu...

The Venetian
1958
as Valeria
A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women.

Wild Strawberries
1957
as Charlotta
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receiv...

The Seventh Seal
1957
as Mute Girl
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Dea...

Song of the Scarlet Flower
1956
as Kerstin
Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

Krut och kärlek
1956
as Inga
Set in Sweden the 1700s. Local rebels are raging in the south. Two riders are commissioned to capture the Dane rebel who is their leader.

Flickan i regnet
1955
as Ingrid
Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Ma...

Kärlek
1952
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his do...