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- Birth nameElsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish-born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than half a century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night (1949). Perhaps best known as a stage actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play "In Search of Strindberg".- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesGeorge Tabori(July 4, 1954 - 1972) (divorced)Don Siegel(August 10, 1949 - May 26, 1954) (divorced, 1 child)Bror Axel Folke Per Rogard(July 6, 1944 - 1948) (divorced, 1 child)Harry Hasso(December 7, 1941 - 1943) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsAxel Torsten LindforsKarin Emilia Therese Dymling
- Black hair
- In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal.
- She was a childminder of Chevy Chase.
- Became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1951.
- When she was included in the "In Memoriam" segment of the Academy Awards in 1996, the Academy showed a scene from The Sure Thing (1985) where she had a supporting role as a professor. In the scene, she's smiling and spreading her arms.
- Son, John Tabori (born John Hasso, 1943 in Sweden).
- What difference does it make if you change your line? Improvisation is good. The other actor should listen to what you do. It may be a matter of changing pauses within or after the line. I call it brave acting and you have to protect your own inspiration.
- [on working with director Joseph Losey on The Damned (1962)] He was more comfortable with men, and had to control women. He accepted things from a man he would not accept from a woman. Didn't feel equal with women. I have to feel a complete equal, or I didn't work well. I liked the role but felt he didn't like the feeling I was his equal. I am a great actress, let's face it.
- How can I be who I am? I want to drop the mask... I feel I am asked to have on in order to please you, whoever *you* are. I've learned that in America more than anything, that the mask doesn't work. There's got to be you.
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