Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958, in which she spent much of the film dressed as a boy), Winter Light (1962), The Silence (1963), The Rite (1969) and Cries and Whispers (1972).

Thulin's performance earned a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

In 1976, Thulin was the protagonist of another film with a similar theme, Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass.

She bought an apartment in Paris, France, in the early 1960s, and some years later a beach house in San Felice Circeo, Italy.

[citation needed] She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm on 7 January 2004.