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Date of Birth

29 December 1920, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Date of Death

25 October 1995, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden (rheumatoid arthritis complications)

Birth Name

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors

Height

5' 5¾" (1.67 m)

Mini Biography

Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than a half century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night (1949). Perhaps best known as a stage actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play "In Search of Strindberg".

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Spouse

George Tabori	(1953 - ca 1970) (divorced)
Don Siegel	(1948 - 1953) (divorced) 1 child
Folke Rogard	(1944 - 1948) (divorced)
Harry Hasso	(1941 - 1943) (divorced) 1 child

Trade Mark

Black hair

Trivia

Mother of Kristoffer Tabori

In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal.

Became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1951.

Mother of Lena Tabori.

Her father was Major Torsten Lindfors and her mother Karin Dymling.

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