Pernilla August
Pernilla August (born February 13, 1958) is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his “The Best Intentions”. She is also known for her role of Shmi Skywalker in the “Star Wars” franchise.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.9153 |
| Birthday | 1958-02-13 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Sverige |
| Also Known As | Pernilla Östergren, Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson, Pernilla Wallgren, Пернилла Аугуст, |
2023
Surprise
0/0
As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead,...
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Surprise
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
6.583/16068
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
6.599/14555
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the h...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
1983
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
7/1
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
1982
Fanny and Alexander
7.8/897
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies...
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Fanny and Alexander
2003
Daybreak
6.4/20
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel...
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Daybreak
2002
Karlsson on the Roof
4.346/13
A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that’s Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn’t very shy. His door sign says "The world’s best Karlss...
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Karlsson on the Roof
2002
I Am Dina
5.57/57
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise...
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I Am Dina
1992
The Best Intentions
7/75
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely,...
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The Best Intentions
1981
The Rooster
5.558/26
In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with s...
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The Rooster
2009
A Rational Solution
5.567/15
Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when th...
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A Rational Solution
2007
Those Who Whisper
0/0
Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy on her bedroom floor. She have no clue...
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Those Who Whisper
1996
Private Confessions
6.1/16
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges...
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Private Confessions
2005
Manslaughter
5.9/34
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
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Manslaughter
1987
The Egg
10/1
A fantasy about repression and hidden menace.
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The Egg
1998
In the Presence of a Clown
6.955/33
In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fianc...
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In the Presence of a Clown
2001
You Do the Best You Can
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Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor" mixed with interviews with fami...
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You Do the Best You Can
1998
The Last Contract
5.8/18
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister...
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The Last Contract
2012
Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
6.058/138
Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudde...
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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
2000
Light Keeps Me Company
7.9/9
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the...
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Light Keeps Me Company
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Giliap
5.609/23
In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male...
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Giliap
1998
The Glass-Blower's Children
5.7/16
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th centu...
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The Glass-Blower's Children
2005
Mouth to Mouth
5/6
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prost...
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Mouth to Mouth
2009
Miss Kicki
5.706/17
Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationshi...
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Miss Kicki
2001
Deadline
4.75/28
The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Wh...
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Deadline
2003
Details
4.714/7
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged E...
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Details
2012
Call Girl
6.358/81
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and priva...
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Call Girl
1986
The Serpent's Way
5.8/16
A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece...
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The Serpent's Way
2012
The Last Sentence
6.1/15
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the...
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The Last Sentence
1999
Mary, Mother of Jesus
4.1/18
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
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Mary, Mother of Jesus
2006
Løven - Henrik Ibsen
0/0
We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to h...
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Løven - Henrik Ibsen
1996
Jerusalem
7.3/15
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
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Jerusalem
2000
Gossip
3.846/13
A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.
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Gossip
1989
Den döende dandyn
5.667/3
A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.
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Den döende dandyn
1999
Where The Rainbow Ends
4.667/3
"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in th...
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Where The Rainbow Ends
2000
The Birthday
4/6
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years....
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The Birthday
2001
Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
5.5/2
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1997
The Last Yankee
4.5/2
"All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two men - a carpenter and a successful self-e...
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The Last Yankee
2009
Kenny Begins
6.031/32
Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his desperate attempt in graduating he a...
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Kenny Begins
2020
Building Happiness
5/1
The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years, S...
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2014
Gentlemen
6.48/25
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and ch...
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Gentlemen
2015
White People
3.7/9
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape...
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White People
2006
Search
4.5/4
Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that the more men she meets, the further f...
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1983
Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite
8/1
A film about Alfred Nobel.
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2001
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
7.3/29
The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-prod...
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2018
Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
7/1
Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's...
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2017
Law of the Land
6.5/16
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of t...
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Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
7.7/3
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is...
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1995
Death of a Juror
1/2
A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investigation. Gross' wife died in an accident and he is a...
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Death of a Juror
2004
Rancid
4.92/25
Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, lif...
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Rancid
2013
Trespassing Bergman
6.6/29
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...
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Trespassing Bergman
2018
Bergman's Reliquarium
6.5/2
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cr...
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2018
Scenes in the Night
5.7/3
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
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Scenes in the Night
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
5.8/23
In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift e...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
5.773/22
First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000
Anna
5.4/5
A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.
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Anna
2018
Filmworker
7.094/80
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
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Filmworker
2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life
7.388/40
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
2019
Bergman Revisited
0/0
As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman R...
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Bergman Revisited
2019
Britt-Marie Was Here
5.167/60
Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small...
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Britt-Marie Was Here
2019
Swoon
6.087/23
John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a...
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Swoon
2007
Women and Bergman
0/0
A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
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2018
Kursk
6.634/719
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...
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Kursk
2004
Eiffel Tower
7/1
A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missing. She does not understand however, what is this...
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Eiffel Tower
2005
Doxa
7/2
Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she f...
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Doxa
2021
The Ape Star
5.7/9
The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It so...
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The Ape Star
2004
Terrorman
0/0
Satirical animation about Terrorman.
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Terrorman
2004
Day and Night
6.409/22
Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody underst...
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Day and Night
2016
Michael Nyqvist - Ett porträtt
8/1
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1983
Hej du himlen!
0/0
A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai.
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2002
A Love Affair
0/0
A short Swedish drama feature.
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A Love Affair
2002
Everyone Loves Alice
5.8/10
A love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in these people's everyday lives, it creates a pressure wave...
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2025
The Dance Club
6.1/5
Johannes, an eccentric psychology student, takes us on a twisted journey. Together with performance artist Rakel, he forms an unconventional club with...
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The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands
0/0
A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two daughters...
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1979
Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet
7/1
16 year old Linus, living in 1930s Stockholm, dreams of becoming a poet, while working in a bookstore. After visiting a brickhouse with his father, Li...
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2002
Jan Malmsjö
0/0
Jan Malmsjö is a Swedish icon of both stage and screen as an actor and singer. Birgitta Zachrisson got to follow him for a few months to create this p...
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