Mats Bergman

Mats Bergman
Mats Bergman
Born	5 May 1948 (age 75); Lena Bergman (paternal half-sister); Daniel Bergman (paternal half-brother); Linn Ullmann (paternal half-sister)

Mats Bergman (born 5 May 1948) is a Swedish actor.

He is the son of director Ingmar Bergman and Ellen Lundström, twin brother of actress Anna Bergman, and a half-brother of Swedish-Norwegian author Linn Ullmann.

Biography

Bergman graduated from Sweden's

Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan (The Good Person of Szechwan). He has also performed frequently in theatre productions for children, most recently in the adaptation of Elsa Beskow

's children's story Petter och Lotta på stora landsvägen (2005 & 2006).

Bergman has gained a reputation as a character actor. He has appeared in TV and film roles in a number of well-known productions, including as Aron in Fanny and Alexander, and as a cigar-loving salesman in Kan du vissla Johanna? (1994), traditionally shown each Christmas Eve in Sweden. He has also played the antique expert Erik Johansson in TV series Berlinder auktioner (2003) and a teacher in the Swedish film Ondskan (Evil), in 2003.

More recently he has been playing the

dry-witted forensic detective Nyberg in the Swedish crime films about Det. Insp. Kurt Wallander, with Krister Henriksson

in the lead (32 episodes).

Selected filmography

2005–2013 - Wallander (as Nyberg)
2004 - Danslärarens återkomst
(TV)
2003 - Ondskan
2003 - Berlinder auktioner (TV-series)
2000 - Födelsedagen
1999 - Hälsoresan – En smal film av stor vikt
1996 - Monopol
1994 - Kan du vissla Johanna?
1992 - En komikers uppväxt (TV-series)
1991 - Den ofrivillige golfaren
1989 - 1939
1989 - Vildanden (aka
Ibsen's The Wild Duck
) (TV-theatre)

1988 - Gull-Pian
1987 - Träff i helfigur
1982 - Fanny och Alexander
1981 - Drottning Kristina (Queen Kristina) (TV-theatre)

References

"Mats Bergman" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

External links

Mats Bergman at
IMDb

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Filmography Bibliography Stage productions Accolades
Films directed	Crisis (1946) It Rains on Our Love (1946) A Ship Bound for India (1947) Music in Darkness (1948) Port of Call (1948) Prison (1949) Thirst (1949) To Joy (1950) This Can't Happen Here (1950) Summer Interlude (1951) Secrets of Women (1952) Summer with Monika (1953) Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) A Lesson in Love (1954) Dreams (1955) Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) The Seventh Seal (1957) Wild Strawberries (1957) Brink of Life (1958) The Magician (1958) The Virgin Spring (1960) The Devil's Eye (1960) Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Winter Light (1963) The Silence (1963) All These Women (1964) Persona (1966) Hour of the Wolf (1968) Shame (1968) The Rite (1969) The Passion of Anna (1969) The Touch (1971) Cries and Whispers (1972) Scenes from a Marriage (1973) The Magic Flute (1975) Face to Face (1976) The Serpent's Egg (1977) Autumn Sonata (1978) From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) Fanny and Alexander (1982) After the Rehearsal (1984) The Blessed Ones (1986) In the Presence of a Clown (1997) Saraband (2003)
Films written	Torment (1944) Woman Without a Face (1947) Eva (1948) While the City Sleeps (1950) Divorced (1951) Last Pair Out (1956) The Pleasure Garden (1961) The Lie (1970) The Best Intentions (1992) Sunday's Children (1992) Private Confessions (1996) Faithless (2000)
Documentaries	Fårö Document (1970) The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1984)
Short films	"Daniel" in Stimulantia (1967) Karin's Face (1986)
Television theatre	Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957) The Venetian (1958) Rabies (1958) The Image Makers (2000)
Related topics	Bergman Week Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie The Dove The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman Award Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
Family	Erik Bergman (father) Dag Bergman (brother) Margareta Bergman (sister) Eva Bergman (daughter) Mats Bergman (son) Anna Bergman (daughter) Daniel Bergman (son) Linn Ullmann (daughter)