Swedish actress Pernilla August won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 for her performance in The Best Intentions, directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman.

August's theatre credits include: The Dream Play, Hamlet, for which she won the British Drama Magazine's Best Supporting Actress Award playing Ophelia, The Dolls House and The Winter's Tale, all directed by Ingmar Bergman and performed at the National Theater of Sweden. Other theatre credits include: Master of Strindberg, The Last Yankee and Three Sisters.

Her television roles have included: Play written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The Wild Bird and Hamlet.