Viveca Lindfors has grown into a veteran Swedish actress whose career has outlived most of the formats it was recorded on. Television and film have both stayed in regular use across the career. Among all the titles, 'Stargate' is the one that reached the widest audience. Among the rest of the work, 'Creepshow' stands out. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1940. She has worked in horror more often than in any other register. She won the Emmy for 'Life Goes On'.
Viveca Lindfors
Actress
74 years (Dec 29, 1920 – Oct 25, 1995)Uppsala, SwedenUppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Viveca Lindfors has grown into a veteran Swedish actress whose career has outlived most of the formats it was recorded on. Television and film have both stayed in regular use across the career. Among all the titles, 'Stargate' is the one that reached the widest audience. Among the rest of the work, 'Creepshow' stands out. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1940. She has worked in horror more often than in any other register. She won the Emmy for 'Life Goes On'.
1920-12-29 · Uppsala, SwedenUppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish-American stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.
She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros., and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 100 films, including Night Unto Night, No Sad Songs for Me, Dark City, The Halliday Brand, King of Kings, An Affair of the Skin, Creepshow, The Sure Thing, and Stargate.Viveca Lindfors, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia