Pernilla August

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Pernilla August (born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson, 1950) is a Swedish actress, producer, and screenwriter.

She received the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in her film The Best Intentions, one of Sweden's top actresses and a long-serving collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman.

In Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, she is best known for portraying Shmi Skywalker.

Personal life

August was born in Stockholm. She has been married twice and changed her name both times. Klas stergren, her first marriage, was in 1982; she has one daughter; the marriage ended in divorce in 1989. Bille August, with whom she has two children, was married in 1991; this marriage ended in divorce, this time in 1997. Agnes, Asta, and Alba are three of her three children.

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Career

August began performing in theatre and at school. She began acting in 1975, when director Roy Andersson cast her in a small role in the film Giliap the same year, followed by films by other producers, Vilgot Sjöman (1983) and Lasse Hallström (among them). She studied at the Stockholm National Academy of Mime and Acting (1979-82). She attracted the attention of Ingmar Bergman, who starred her in his film Fanny and Alexander (1982), portraying the nanny in the director's romanticized portrait of his childhood before finishing her studies. That was the start of two decades of collaboration, including television series The Best Intentions (1991), where she portrayed Bergman's mother and met her second husband to be, director Bille August, and television series Private Confessions (1996), directed by Liv Ullmann and Bergman's own In the Presence of a Clown (1997).

She appeared in Bo Widerberg's The Serpent's Way (1986), as well as his television-production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1989). Bille August's Jerusalem (1996), Richard Hobert's Where the Rainbow Ends (1999), Björn Runge's Om jag vs. More than 200 films have been released, including Bille August's Where the Rainbow Ends (1999), Perpetua (2005), Peret (2005), Perpetro's Manslaughter (2004), Perse Miss Kicki (2009), and To the Truth and Consequence (2012); A Silver Bear (2005)

She has appeared in many productions, some directed by Ingmar Bergman and touring internationally, starting with 1981. Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1986), Margarete in Bergman's special version of A Winter's Tale (1994), and Helene Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts (2002). In Alexander Pushkin's A Feast in the Time of Plague (1996), she worked with Russian director Jurij Ljubimov. She appeared in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters from 1983-84. In 2008, she appeared on the stage of Steel Magnolias in Stockholm.

In 1993, she appeared in two episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Many in the English-speaking world know her best as Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker's mother, from Star Wars: Episode I (1999) and its sequel Attack of the Clones (2002). With Melinda Kinnaman, she discussed her role as Virgin Mary in Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999). She appeared in the Swedish film Sprängaren (2001), as Helena Bergström. Shmi Skywalker appeared in the third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2011, which aired on January 28th.

She made her directorial debut with the 2005 short film Time Bomb (Blindgence) on YouTube in 2010. She debuted as a film producer and screenwriter with Beyond in 2010, starring Noomi Rapace and Ola Rapace. At the 84th Academy Awards, the film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film, and it was highly lauded with Swedish Guldbagge Awards, among other things; Best Director and Best Script were given in August. August was asked to produce Arvingerne, a new Danish drama series, which she accepted. On January 1, 2014, the series premiered on DR. In the series, her two oldest daughters appear in cameos.

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