Gunnel Lindblom

Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom was a Swedish film actress and director with a long career on stage and screen. She was best known for her long working partnership with the director Ingmar Bergman. Gunnel Lindblom appears nude in several scenes of The Silence. She was born on 18 December 1931 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and died on 24 January 2021. In 1965 she played the lead in Miss Julie for BBC Television. Later she won strong praise as The Mummy in Bergman's staging of The Ghost Sonata from 1998 to 2000. She also worked as a director, staging Girl in Yellow Raincoat by Jon Fosse at Dramaten in 2009. Her husband was Sture Helander, a senior lecturer who served as Bergman's personal physician.