Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than a half century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night. Perhaps best known as a stage actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play "In Search of Strindberg".
Mother of Kristoffer Tabori In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1951. Mother of Lena Tabori.