Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman began her acting career in Sweden in the 1930s before Hollywood producer David O. Selznick brought her to the United States in 1939 to remake her Swedish hit "Intermezzo." She became one of the era's most acclaimed leading women, working in English, Swedish, and Italian across a career spanning more than five decades, and won three competitive Academy Awards, a rare feat matched by few actors of any era. Her international stardom was interrupted in the late 1940s by a public scandal when she left her husband for the Italian director Roberto Rossellini while still married, a relationship condemned on the floor of the United States Senate; she worked mainly in Europe with Rossellini through the following years before an American comeback sealed by her second Best Actress Oscar for "Anastasia" (1956). Bergman starred opposite Cary Grant twice for Alfred Hitchcock, in "Notorious" (1946), a wartime espionage thriller opposite Grant and Claude Rains, and again in the lighter romantic comedy "Indiscreet" (1958), after both her exile and comeback. She continued working until shortly before her death in 1982, winning her third Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress, for "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974).