Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Born	Barbro Margareta Eriksdotter Hiort af Ornäs 28 August 1921 Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	27 November 2015 (aged 94) Bromma, Sweden
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1943–2001
Spouse(s)	Ernst Nathorst-Böös (divorced)
Children	3

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (28 August 1921 – 27 November 2015) was a Swedish stage and film actress.^[1]

Biography

She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, the daughter of Alma (née Ärnström) and Erik Hiort af Ornäs. She had a brother, Torbjorn.

Along with Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, and Ingrid Thulin, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for Brink of Life.^[2][3]In 1989, she was given the Litteris et Artibus for her services to the arts in Sweden. Hiort af Ornäs died in Bromma on 28 November 2015, aged 94.

Selected filmography

• While the City Sleeps (1950)
• Count Svensson (1951)
• Barabbas (1953)
• Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1955)
• Brink of Life (1958)
• All These Women (1964)
• Shame (1968)
• The Passion of Anna (1969)
• The Touch (1971)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
• What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
• Father to Be (1979)
• Sällskapsresan 2 – Snowroller (1985)
• S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa (1988)
• Den ofrivillige golfaren (1991)
• Hälsoresan – En smal film av stor vikt (1999)

References

1. "Barbro Hiort af Ornäs profile". Swedish Film Database. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
2. "Festival de Cannes: Brink of Life". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
3. "Barbro Hiort- of death Ornäs The actor Barbro Hiort af Ornäs has died at age 94. She held the Poetry Corner at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and played among other Stig-Helmer's mother in the film.". Svd.se. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

External links

• Barbro Hiort af Ornäs at the Internet Movie Database
• Barbro Hiort af Ornäs at the Swedish Film Database