Bergström was born in Kortedala, Gothenburg, the daughter of actress Kerstin Widgren and :sv:Hans Bergström |Hans Bergström, a director and actor. Her maternal grandfather, Olof Widgren, was also an actor. Bergström studied in Mississippi in the United States as an exchange student when she was a teenager. She is married to Colin Nutley, with whom she has two children, Molly and Timothy, and a stepson, Daniel Nutley. They met while filming Blackjack. At the time, Nutley was married and was 20 years her senior. They live in an apartment on Kungsholmen, an island in central Stockholm, where her grandparents lived. They also have a house in the country.
Career
She first appeared in a movie directed by her father in 1978, entitled Sweet Home. Bergström embarked on a film career in 1982, working in the television mini-series "Time Out". A year later she appeared in the satirical comedy series Vidöppet, or Wide Open in English. In 1988, she graduated from "Teaterhögskolan", the theatre academy, in Stockholm, after which she worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and at the Stockholm City Theatre. In 2008, she starred in a drama about Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf. She is known for her work in films, such as Miss Julie and House of Angels. The Woman on the Roof is described as the role that made her a noted actress. Although it was not a box office success, it was praised by the film critics. She became more notable after her "vivid portrayal of a tough city girl" during World War II in 1939. In 1990, she received the Swedish Film Academy Kurt Linder prize and in 1992 Teaterförbundet Daniel Engdahl scholarship. She has been directed by her husband in films including Black Jack, House of Angels,The Last Dance. Her husband has directed Bergström in films involving sex scenes; she said he found this to be uncomfortable. With Tove Alsterdal, a playwright and journalist, she wrote her first screenplay, Så olika, or So Different in English. She first directed Mind the Gap , which was released in 2007. In 2015, she directed her fourth film, A wonderful fucking Christmas! Not the original screenwriter. She is also a singer, singing more than 100 songs of Édith Piaf at the City Theatre. In 2002, she recorded an album of Piaf songs.
