Miss Julie

She appeared in blockbusters like “The Martian” and “Interstellar,” and in art-house films and adaptations of classics like “Miss Julie,” a movie based on August Strindberg’s 1889 play.

Reviewing “Miss Julie,” the Rorem opera based on Strindberg’s drama, when it was presented by New York City Opera in 1965, Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times wrote, “His melodic ideas are utterly bland, lacking in profile or distinction.”

There is a giant statue of the misogynistic, hateful, legendary but brilliant author, who wrote the novel “The Red Room” and the naturalistic play “Miss Julie,” in the Tegnérlunden park, and his words are quoted on the asphalt of Drottninggatan, the street where he lived during the last years of his life in a building known as the Blue Tower.

While attending Howard University — where she received a bachelor’s degree in drama in 1950 — Ms. Ryder Perry belonged to a student theater group, the Howard Players, which performed Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck” and Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” on a tour of Scandinavia at the invitation of the Norwegian government.

Her fifth, and last, was the 2014 adaption of “Miss Julie,” starring Jessica Chastain, who last year played Ullman’s role in an update of “Scenes From a Marriage.”