Ingrid Bergman
GIBRALTAR – CIRCA 1995. A postage stamp printed by GIBRALTAR shows Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and American actor Humphrey Bogart starring in the film Casablanca circa 1995. photo by gors4730/Bigstock
Date of Birth: 29 August, 1915
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Date of Death: 29 August, 1982
Place of Death: London, England, U.K.
Ethnicity: Swedish, German
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, twice, for Gaslight (1944) and Anastasia (1956), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
Her mother, Frieda/Friedel Henrietta (Adler), was German, from Kiel, Germany. Her father, Justus Samuel Bergman, was Swedish. She had a daughter with her former husband, doctor Petter Aron Lindström; and three children, including actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini, with her former husband, Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
Ingrid had no recent shared Bergman ancestors with director Ingmar Bergman.
Ingrid’s paternal grandfather was Johan Peter/Petter Bergman (the son of Jonas Månsson and Marta/Martha Jönsdotter/Jönasdotter). Johan was born in Öja, Kronoberg, Sweden. Jonas was the son of Måns Jöhasson and Ingeborg Jönsdotter. Marta was the daughter of Jöns Johansson.
Ingrid’s paternal grandmother was Britta/Brita Sofia/Sophia Samuelsdotter (the daughter of Samuel Lorentz Bengtsson and Maria Andersdotter). Brita was born in Väranås, Hjälmseryd, Jonkoping County, Sweden. Samuel was the son of Bengt Christoffer Samuelsson, an innkeeper, and of Brita Sophia Runquist/Hielmberg. Maria was the daughter of Anders Svensson and Lisbeth Amundsdotter.
A DNA test of Ingrid’s daughter Isabella whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2019) stated that Isabella’s genetic ancestry is:
*99.6% European
——–*36.8% French and German
——–*22.8% Italian
——–*17.3% Broadly Northern European
——–*11.2% Scandinavian
——–*3.7% Broadly European
——–*3.5% Broadly Southern European
——–*2.7% British and Irish
——–*0.8% Greek and Balkan
——–*0.4% Eastern European
——–*0.3% Spanish and Portuguese
——–*0.1% Ashkenazi Jewish
*0.3% North African/Arabian
*0.1% Sub-Saharan African
According to the book, Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography (2007), by Charlotte Chandler, Ingrid was told by her mother’s sister, Elsa Adler, that her family had Jewish ancestry. Given her daughter Isabella’s DNA test, Ingrid having had significant Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry is unlikely.
Sources: Genealogies of Ingrid Bergman (focusing on her father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
http://www.wikitree.com
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kulturdebatt/ingrid-bergmans-okanda-invandrarbakgrund/
Friedel’s sister Elsa Adler, called aunt Mutti by Ingrid, revealed a family secret to Ingrid when she was eleven years old according to Charlotte Chandlers biografy ”Ingrid Bergman. A personal biography”, namely that the family was of German Jewish descent.
Ingrid, however, had to promise not to tell anyone outside the family, since “difficult times were coming” for the jews; a promise she kept until the end of the war in 1945, when she fell in love with the Hungarian Jewish photographer Robert Capa and wanted to share her background with him.
At least the German surname Adler is a classical Jewish German name. Not necessarily Jewish, but all Adlers I know are Jewish, without exception (if not her).
She had Jewish maybe Jewish ancestry.
She is Swedish and German-Jewish.
Becouse i find it somewhere when during ww2 her mother told her that she had Jewish ancestry.
That statement is not true. Ingrid was born in 1915 and her mother died when she was two and WW2 was in 1930s-1940s so there is not really a possible way for her mother to tell her that during WW2. She may be Jewish, but that statement is false.
That classic mix (german/swedish) is always an awesome mix .
She’s absolutley gorgeous… :)
Yes, a good actress, and an pretty woman