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== Early life == Liv Johanne Ullmann was born in [[Tokyo]] on 16 December 1938,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://snl.no/Liv_Ullmann |title=Liv Ullmann |first=Svend Erik Løken |last=Larsen |date=30 August 2017 |via=Store norske leksikon |access-date=11 December 2018 |archive-date=22 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222050619/https://snl.no/Liv_Ullmann |url-status=live }}</ref> the daughter of Norwegian parents Janna Erbe (née Lund; 1910–1996) and Erik Viggo Ullmann (1907–1945).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/ullmannl/liv-ullmann |title=Family tree of Liv ULLMANN }}</ref> Her father was an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time. Her grandfather helped Jews escape from the Norwegian town where he lived during [[World War II]], and was thus sent to the [[Dachau concentration camp]], where he died.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/feb/03/features.weekend1 |title=A Lifelong Liaison |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=3 February 2001 |first=Simon |last=Hattenstone |access-date=13 September 2014 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610104509/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/feb/03/features.weekend1 |url-status=live }}</ref> When Ullmann was two years old, she moved with her parents to Canada and settled in [[Toronto]], where her father worked at the [[Royal Norwegian Air Force|Norwegian Air Force]] base on [[Toronto Island]] during World War II.<ref name="jones-little-norway">{{cite news |work=[[Toronto Star]] |title=Unravelling Little Norway's Big Secrets |page=M03 |date=10 May 1986 |last=Jones |first=Donald}}</ref> The family then moved to the U.S. and settled in [[New York City]], where her father died four years later after a lengthy hospitalization from head injuries due to being struck by an airplane propeller, and his death affected her greatly.<ref name="jones-little-norway"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2014/09/09/tiff_liv_ullmann_spent_worst_and_best_times_of_my_life_in_toronto.html |title=TIFF: Liv Ullmann spent 'worst and best times of my life' in Toronto |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=9 September 2014 |first=Richard |last=Ouzounian |access-date=13 September 2014 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803212038/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2014/09/09/tiff_liv_ullmann_spent_worst_and_best_times_of_my_life_in_toronto.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Her mother worked as a bookseller while raising Ullmann and her sister alone.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4719825/The-Bergman-connection.html |title=The Bergman connection |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=12 February 2000 |access-date=13 September 2014 |archive-date=14 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914130148/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4719825/The-Bergman-connection.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> They eventually returned to Norway and lived in [[Trondheim]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703440604575496481625406098 |title=Liv Ullmann's Return to the Stage |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=17 September 2010 |first=J. S. |last=Marcus |access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref>
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