Passages

[Blutarsky]

Haven’t seen any official articles yet, but Ingrid Carlberg on X/Twitter announced that Liv Ullmann had passed away.

If true a great loss

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

I would assume Carlberg is telling the truth, I don’t see any reason she would say otherwise unless given faulty information.

[hearthesilence]

That post came ten hours ago, so it is indeed strange that news hasn't spread elsewhere. Maybe the family wants the media to hold off for the moment, but then I wonder why Carlberg went ahead and broke the news?

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

Hugues Peysson (a family friend of hers) and Dheeraj Akolkar (director of her documentary, Liv Ullman - A Road Less Travelled) state that this is misinformation and her family has confirmed this is fake news.

[hearthesilence]

That clinches it, but FWIW I dug a little more - Carlberg has an official website, and it has social media links on it. The Twitter (or "X" blech) link goes to a different account. The one with the misinformation is an account that opened back in October, and it looks fake for a variety of other reasons.

[hearthesilence]

Maybe someone here knows how to get a fake account taken down, but some public figures with a lot of followers are re-sharing that fake post, and as long as it stays up, I think there's going to be continued confusion.

[Aunt Peg]

Dominque Frot, 68, French actress (sister of Catherine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Frot

The film I always remember her the most from was Larry Clark's The Smell of Us (2014). She also appeared in Inside (2007), The Father of My Children (2009) & Titane (2021) amongst others.

[hearthesilence]

FWIW, that fake Ingrid Carlberg account posted an admission that it was a fake account created by Tommaso Debenedetti. He has a history of perpetuating death hoaxes, allegedly to prove how easily fake news can be created through social media.