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'{{Short description|Swedish actress and model}}{{Infobox person | name = Hjördis Paulina Genberg | image = NMA.0062876, Fashion Photo by Erik Holmén 1943.jpg | birth_name = 10 November 1919 | birth_place = [[Åsarna]], [[Jämtland county]], [[Sweden]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|12|24|1919|11|10|df=yes}} [[Céligny, Switzerland]] | occupation = Model, actress | spouse = {{marriage|Carl-Gustav Tersmeden|1946|1947|end=div}} {{marriage|[[David Niven]]|1948|1983|end=died}} | children = 2 }} '''Hjördis Paulina Genberg''' (10 November 1919 - 24 December 1997) was a [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[actress]] and [[Model (person)|model]]. She was the second wife of [[English people|English]] actor and novelist [[David Niven]]. Genberg was among the first supermodels of Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1947-07-19|title=27 Jun 1947, 19|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/458558623/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=[[The San Francisco Examiner]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=9 Nov 1949, 27 - The Times|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/308689178/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=[[The Times]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=5 Nov 1949, Page 3|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/10919086/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=The Record-Argus|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=28 Oct 1949, p.13|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/621855032/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=2|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=[[The Charlotte News]]|language=en}}</ref> == Life == Hjördis Genberg was born on 10th November, 1919 in [[Åsarna]], [[Jämtland County|Jämtland county]], [[Sweden]]. She was the fourth of five children of Johan Georg Genberg, and his wife Gerda Paulina [[née]] Hägglund. Genberg attended her high school in the nearby Salsåker, a small town in [[Nordingrå]]. She made her breakthrough as an actress in the 1943 film [[Sjätte skottet]]. She married the businessman Carl-Gustav Tersmeden in 1946, later divorced him in 1947. In January 1948, Genberg married British actor David Niven,<ref>{{Cite web|title=31 Oct 1949, Page 12|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/108433544/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=[[The Courier-Journal]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2 Nov 1949, 27|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/279607646/?terms=Hjordis%20Genberg&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-22|website=The Morning Call|language=en}}</ref> with whom she would have two daughters, Kristina Niven and Fiona Niven. After 35 years of marriage, Niven died on 29 July 1983 in [[Château-d’Œx]] of [[ALS]]. Hjordis Genberg died on 24 December 1997, of a [[cerebral hemorrhage|brain bleed]] in [[Céligny, Switzerland]] her ashes were scattered in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. == Filmography (selection) == *1943: ''[[Sjätte skottet]]'' *1943: ''Fångad av en röst'' *1945: ''Brita i grosshandlarhuset'' *1945: ''13 stolar'' == In popular culture == * [[David Niven|Niven, David]] (2005-04-28). ''[[The Moon's a Balloon]]''. [[Penguin Books|Penguin UK]]. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]]&nbsp;[[Special:BookSources/978-0-14-193734-2|<bdi>978-0-14-193734-2</bdi>]]. *Niven, David (2009-01). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Bring_on_the_Empty_Horses.html?id=l04-PgAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description Bring on the Empty Horses]''. Little, Brown Book Group Limited. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]]&nbsp;[[Special:BookSources/978-1-4055-0597-0|<bdi>978-1-4055-0597-0</bdi>]]. *[[Graham Lord|Lord, Graham]] (2004-12-14). ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18867000-niv NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven]''. [[St. Martin's Press]]. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]]&nbsp;[[Special:BookSources/978-0-312-32863-4|<bdi>978-0-312-32863-4</bdi>]]. *[[Michael Munn|Munn, Michael]] (2014-07-10). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/David_Niven.html?id=OrDFAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description David Niven: The Man Behind the Balloon]''. [[Aurum Press]]. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]]&nbsp;[[Special:BookSources/978-1-78131-372-5|<bdi>978-1-78131-372-5</bdi>]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The flawed real life of the perfect movie gentleman|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-flawed-real-life-of-the-perfect-movie-gentleman-26552274.html|access-date=2021-05-22|website=independent|language=en}}</ref> [[File:David Niven with his wife Hjördis Genberg, 1960.jpg|thumb|Hjördis Genberg with her husband [[David Niven]], 1960]] == Reference == <references /> == External links == * [[imdbname:0312635|Hjordis Genberg]] on [[IMDb]] *[https://hjordisniven.com/ Hjordis Genberg biographies] {{Commons category|Hjördis Genberg|position=left}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Genberg, Hjördis}} [[Category:Swedish models]] [[Category:Swedish actresses]] [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:1997 deaths]] [[Category:People from Jämtland County]] [[Category:20th-century Swedish actresses]] [[Category:20th-century Swedish women]]'