Pernilla August

Biography: Pernilla August

A favorite of famed director Ingmar Bergman, Swedish actress Pernilla August has an earthy radiance and formidable talent that translated well from stage to screen when she made a lasting impression in Bergman's directorial swan song, Fanny and Alexander (1982). In the years that followed, August would prove devastating with an award-winning role in the Bergman-penned drama The Best Intentions before gaining international recognition with appearances in such popular mainstream American efforts as Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Though the majority of her foreign roles may have gone unseen by stateside audiences, her reputation as a notable screen talent found August in constant demand overseas. It was while performing on-stage as a young girl that August first realized the power that a talented actress could wield, and after that epiphany, there was little doubt as to the path she would pursue in life. Spending several years on Swedish television allowed August to develop her onscreen acting skills into something truly special, and after breaking into film in the early '80s, the emerging actress married author Klas Östergren. Alternating between stage and screen in the following years, August's moving performance as Bergman's mother in Bille August's The Best Intentions earned her a Best Actress award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, and found her separating from her first husband to marry director August. Her ensuing pregnancy may have prevented Pernilla from appearing in her second husband's 1993 film, The House of the Spirits, though she did act under his direction once again in 1996's Jerusalem before the dissolve of their five-year union. August once again summoned the spirit of Bergman's mother for the 1996 Liv Ullmann telefilm Private Confessions (again penned by Bergman), and her role in the following year's In the Presence of a Clown found her continuing to explore the persona. Despite becoming a familiar face to American audiences with her role in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones, August remained faithful to her Swedish roots with appearances in such efforts as 2004's Dag och natt. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide less

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Det Enda Rationella (2009)
Cast: Pernilla August Jörgen Bergmark Stina Ekblad Rolf Lassgård Magnus Roosmann
Tags: Drama
Length: 104min
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A Rational Solution (2009)
Cast: Pernilla August Jörgen Bergmark Stina Ekblad Rolf Lassgård
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 90min
An amateur marriage counselor tries to overhaul his own relationship in this comedy-drama from Sweden. Erland (Rolf Lassgard) and his wife May (Stina Ekblad) are a middle-aged couple who have been married for years and try to share what they've...
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Miss Kicki (2009)
Cast: Pernilla August Hakon Liu Ludwig Palmell Huang Ho
Tags: Drama
Length: 88min
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Daybreak (2003)
Cast: Pernilla August Björn Runge Leif Andree Peter Andersson Jakob Eklund
Tags: Melodrama Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 115min
Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge writes and directs Om Jag Vander Mig Om (Day Break), a drama concerning three different parallel story lines that take place in one day. Rickard (Jakob Eklund) is a surgeon who is cheating on his faithful wife Agnes...
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Performances (2007)
Cast: Pernilla August Per Fly Jesper Christensen Sonja Richter Mads Wille
Length: 348min
An artfully segmented study in various forms of love, director Per Fly's six-part miniseries revolves largely around a charismatic Danish theater director as it follows six disparate characters all dealing with different love-related dilemmas. From...
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I Am Dina (2002)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu Christopher Eccleston Paulo Branco Per Holst Pernilla August
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 128min
Ole Bornedal directs the drama I Am Dina, based on the novel by Herbjørg Wassmo. In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father (Bjørn Floberg) refuses to raise...
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Fodelsedagen (2000)
Cast: Pernilla August Richard Hobert Börje Ahlstedt Mats Bergman Helena Brodin
Length: 114min
Swedish director Richard Hobert rounds out his series on the seven deadly sins by inviting most of the main characters from his previous films for a big ol' birthday party. Amid the streamers, party favors, and animal balloons, failed rock star and...
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Cast: George Lucas Liam Neeson Natalie Portman Ewan McGregor John Williams
Tags: Space Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 131min
In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars, the ultimate sci-fi popcorn flick-turned-pop-culture myth machine. It quickly became the biggest money-making film of all time and changed the shape of the film industry. After two successful sequels (1980's...
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Gossip (2000)
Cast: Harriet Andersson Pernilla August Marie Richardson Colin Nutley Helena Bergström
Length: 134min
Nine of Sweden's leading actresses are brought together in this unconventional comedy-drama about a group of actresses awaiting a casting announcement. A major American film producer is looking for a Swedish actress to play the title role in a...
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Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin Kevin Connor Christian Bale Pernilla August Hywel Bennett
Tags: Drama Religious Drama Hagiography
Length: 120min
"The Greatest Story Ever Told, As Seen Through a Mother's Eyes." Coproduced by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her son Bobby Shriver, this reverent retelling of the Biblical story of the Madonna stars Melinda Kinnaman as young Mary, Perrilla August as the...
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