Since 1954, Ingrid van Bergen appeared in more than 170 film and television productions.

She was a star of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, including successful films like the comedy Roses for the Prosecutor (1959).

During the early 1960s, the blond-haired actress also appeared as a supporting role in a few international productions, playing a prostitute in Town Without Pity (1961) with Kirk Douglas and appearing in the war film The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) starring William Holden.

On the night of 2–3 February 1977 she shot her lover, the money broker Klaus Knaths, dead.

[3] In 2009 at age 77, she was the winner of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!