Barbro Hiort af Ornäs


Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was a Swedish stage and film actress.

Biography

She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, the daughter of Alma and Erik Hiort af Ornäs. She had a brother, Torbjorn.
Along with Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, and Ingrid Thulin, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for Brink of Life. In 1989, she was given the Litteris et Artibus for her services to the arts in Sweden. Hiort af Ornäs died in Bromma on 28 November 2015, aged 94.

Partial filmography