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name: "Barbro Hiort af Ornäs"
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born: "28 August 1921"
died: "27 November 2015"
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# Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Actor. Born 28 August 1921 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. Died 27 November 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 August 1921, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
- **Died:** 27 November 2015
- **Also known as:**  Barbara Hart

## Biography

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (also credited as Barbara Hart) was a Swedish stage and film actress. Born on 28 August 1921 in Gothenburg, she trained at Schartau business school in Stockholm and began acting in the late 1930s, appearing in early productions associated with Ingmar Bergman. She made her film debut in 1943 and maintained a career spanning stage work at the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) and numerous screen roles until the mid-2000s.

She appeared in several Bergman films, including *Brink of Life* (1958), in which she played Nurse Brita and shared the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival with Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck and Ingrid Thulin; *All These Women* (1964); *Shame* (1968); *The Passion of Anna* (1969); *The Touch* (1971); and *Scenes from a Marriage* (1973/1974) as Mrs Jacobi (uncredited). She received the Litteris et Artibus medal in 1989 for services to the arts. Later audiences knew her as Stig-Helmer’s mother in Lasse Åberg’s comedy films *Snowroller* (1985), *Swedes at Sea* (1988) and *The Accidental Golfer* (1991). Hiort af Ornäs died on 27 November 2015 in Stockholm.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, skbl.se.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Scenes from a Marriage* (1974), Fi1m 88, as Mrs. Jacobi (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/scenes-from-a-marriage-1974.md)

## Also known for

- *Shame* (1968), Woman in the Refugee Boat
- *The Passion of Anna* (1969), Woman in Dream (uncredited)
- *Scenes from a Marriage* (1973), Fru Jacobi
- *Brink of Life* (1958), Nurse Brita
- *Snowroller* (1985), Stig-Helmer's mother
- *Swedes at Sea* (1988), Stig Helmer's mother
- *The Accidental Golfer* (1991), Stig Helmer's Mother
- *All These Women* (1964), Beatrica

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