Private Life
In addition to Norwegian, Ullmann speaks Swedish, English and other European languages. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has traveled widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission. In 2005, King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav. In 2006, she received a PhD honoris causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Ullmann has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to Hans Jacob Stang, a Norwegian psychiatrist, whom she divorced in 1965. According to her biographer, Ketil Bjørnstad, the marriage was marred by infidelities on both sides. In the 1980s, she married Boston real estate developer Donald Saunders, whom she divorced in 1995. The couple continued to live together until 2007.
She has one child, Linn Ullmann, fathered by Ingmar Bergman in 1966; the two lived together for five years. Ullmann has two grandchildren, a boy and a girl, from her daughter's two marriages.
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