A luminously beautiful, consummately talented performer, Ullmann is chiefly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, by whom she has a daughter, Linn. She was an established Norwegian stage talent before being chosen by Bergman—partly due to her resemblance to Bibi Andersson—to co-star in Persona (1966). For the next decade and a half, though frequently in international productions, Ullmann's best work was in Swedish films, where her gift for interpreting emotionally wrought characters was displayed in Bergman films such as Shame (1968), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Face to Face (1976) and Autumn Sonata (1978), as well as Jan Troell's The Emigrants (1971) and its sequel The New Land (1972). Ullmann reached the peak of her worldwide popularity in the late 1970s, making her Broadway debut in A Doll's House (1975) and publishing her autobiography, Changing, in 1977; she was also the subject of a feature-length documentary, A Look at Liv (1977). Ullmann has since made a successful transition to middle-aged roles and also began directing films in the 1990s.

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