Ingrid Bergman is one of the many Old Hollywood actresses that I love and whose movies I could watch again and again.

The interesting thing about Bergman is that she was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915, and died of cancer in London, England, on August 29, 1982, which was her 67th birthday.

Yes, you read that right, her birth and death dates are the same.

I don’t think I have previously known or heard of anybody who died on their birthday, but I know there must be some people at least.

This legendary actress is best known for her incredible role as Ilsa Lund in the classic movie “Casablanca.”

The actress created quite a scandal in 1950 when she gave birth to the son of Italian director Roberto Rossellini, not having been married to him.

Bergman studied acting at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater and first became a film star in Sweden before ever making a movie in Hollywood, California. Her Hollywood debut was in the film directed by David O. Selznick “Intermezzo: A Love Story” in 1939. In the movie, she portrayed Anita Hoffman, opposite Leslie Howard.

Her popularity grew when she starred with Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca” in 1942. The movie gave us many memorable lines, including, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” She went on to star in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” in 1943 and “Gaslight” in 1944 for which she received an Oscar for Best Actress. The movie “Gaslight” is a thriller about a husband who tries to drive his wife mad. It is an edge of your seat kind of film, and Bergman had me nail-biting all the way through. Bergman did fantastic work in her portrayals in three movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock “Spellbound,” “Notorious,” and “Under Capricorn.”

In 1946 Bergman went on the Broadway stage in New York City to play Joan of Arc and received critical acclaim for her role. She starred in the 1948 film “Joan of Arc” directed by Victor Fleming. Bergman made her debut on television in 1959. Bergman won an Emmy for her portrayal as Miss Giddens in “The Turn of the Screw.” In 1965 Bergman made her London stage debut in “A Month In the Country.” Then for the first time in twenty-one years, she returned to the stage in the U.S. in “More Stately Mansions” in 1967. It was a play by Eugene O’Neill and opened at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, California and went on to the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway in New York City.

Bergman began her romance with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in 1949 when he directed her in the movie “Stromboli.” At this time she was still married to a Swedish physician with whom she had a daughter. When she was carrying Rossellini’s child, there was a big scandal, and Bergman got reprimanded on the U.S. Senate floor. Their son was born in February of 1950, and they got married the same year in May. She gave birth to twin daughters in 1952, and one of them, Isabella Rossellini, also became an actress as well as Pia Lindstrom from her first marriage. She divorced Rossellini in 1957.

Bergman went on to win another Oscar for Best Actress in 1956 for her portrayal in the movie “Anastasia.” She won her third Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film “Murder on the Orient Express” in 1974. Her final role was in “Autumn Sonata” in 1978, which was directed by well-known Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (no relation). She won the Academy Award as Best Actress for this role. Her final part on television was in 1982 when she portrayed Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was in a miniseries, “A Woman Called Golda.” Her beauty and talent live on in her movies.

As she said in her own words a couple of years before her death:

“I’m happy it all happened to me. I’ve had a very rich life. There was never a dull moment. When I was very young in Sweden, I used to pray ‘God, please don’t let me have a dull life.’ And He obviously heard me.”