Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#20063
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ingrid Bergman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 79 years in, and Ingrid is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ingrid Bergman appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ingrid. Casablanca is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, mystery, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Carl Reiner, Ingmar Bergman, Sidney Lumet and others, Ingrid Bergman helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Casablanca (1943) as Ilsa Lund · Autumn Sonata (1978) as Charlotte · Notorious (1946) as Alicia Huberman
Career snapshot
Ranked #20063 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1941–2020
Career length
79 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Casablanca
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Casablanca
Most frequent director
Alfred Hitchcock
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Alfred Hitchcock
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.3 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Autumn Sonata, Murder on the Orient Express — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1940s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Under Capricorn, Joan of Arc, Notorious.
Most productive era
1940s
8 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1940s | 1970s | 1980s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.97 films | 7.32 films | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.22 films | 7.11 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.61 film | — |
| Crime | 7.21 film | — | 6.61 film | — |
| Romance | 7.34 films | — | — | — |
| Horror | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ivy Peterson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1943Casablanca
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
12 of 12 films
as Ilsa Lund
Directed by Michael Curtiz
as Charlotte
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
as Alicia Huberman
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
as Dr. Constance Petersen
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
as Paula Alquist
Directed by George Cukor
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Ilsa Lund
Casablanca (1943)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ilsa Lund gives Ingrid Bergman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Charlotte
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Performance score8.1
Autumn Sonata asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Charlotte is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alicia Huberman
Notorious (1946)
Performance score7.8
Notorious asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alicia Huberman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Constance Petersen
Spellbound (1945)
Performance score7.8
Spellbound asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Constance Petersen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ilsa Lund
Start here. Casablanca is the clearest statement of what Ingrid Bergman does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ingrid at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Gaslight (1944)
Keeps the drama register of Casablanca but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spellbound (1945)
Keeps the mystery register of Gaslight but asks for a colder reading of it.
Notorious (1946)
Same director as Spellbound, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Keeps the drama register of Notorious but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
3 films together
Notably Notorious
Victor Fleming
Director
2 films together
Notably Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Michael Curtiz
Director
1 film together
Notably Casablanca
Sam Wood
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Bell Tolls
George Cukor
Director
1 film together
Notably Gaslight
Sidney Lumet
Director
1 film together
Notably Murder on the Orient Express
Ingmar Bergman
Director
1 film together
Notably Autumn Sonata
Carl Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
NotoriousVictor Fleming
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMichael Curtiz
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CasablancaIngmar Bergman
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Autumn SonataGeorge Cukor
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GaslightSidney Lumet
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Murder on the Orient ExpressCarl Reiner
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidSam Wood
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Bell TollsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ingrid Bergman has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
79 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gaslight
as Paula Alquist
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Autumn Sonata
as Charlotte
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gaslight
as Paula Alquist
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Casablanca
as Ilsa Lund
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Maria
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Autumn Sonata
as Charlotte
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Under Capricorn
as Lady Henrietta Flusky
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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