Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), later known as Greta Garbo, was a Swedish actress primarily remembered for her work in the United States during Hollywood's silent film ; in total she appeared in 27 movies.
Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, she moved to Los Angeles, California in 1925, she was a popular box-office attraction. Garbo was one of the few silent movie actresses to successfully negotiate the transition to sound, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She appeared twice as Anna Karenina, once in silent film, Love (1927), and again with Anna Karenina (1935), for which she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. In 1932 her popularity with audiences allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly choosy about her roles.

Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (1939) She considered her performance as the courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) as her best performance and the role gained her a second Academy Award nomination. Towards the end of her career, MGM attempted to recast the somber and melancholy Garbo into a comic actress with Ninotchka (1939. For Ninotchka, Garbo was again nominated for an Academy Award; Two-Faced Woman(1941) did well at the box office, but was a critical failure.
After 1941 she retired to an apartment in New York City and became increasingly reclusive. Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy Award. A 1986 Sidney Lumet film, Garbo Talks, reflected the continuing popular obsession with the star. Until the end of her life, Garbo-watching became a sport among the paparazzi and the media, but she remained elusive. She died in 1990 at the age of 84 from pneumonia and renal failure.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and