Borghild Johannessen (December 14, 1884 – October 14, 1972) was a Norwegian actress, singer, and dancer.

Family

Borghild Johannessen was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

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, the daughter of the actors Bernt Johan Johannessen and Laura Elvig, and the sister of the actress

Svanhild Johannessen Svanhild Johannessen (August 21, 1882 – January 15, 1971) was a Norwegians, Norwegian actress. Svanhild Johannessen was born in Bergen. She was the daughter of the actor Berent Johannessen and the actress Laura Elvig, and the sister of the act ...

. On November 29, 1915, she married the actor Thoralf Klouman, whom she worked with at the Trondheim National Theater. They were the parents of the pianist and composer Carsten Klouman and the actress

Wenche Klouman Wenche Klouman (May 11, 1918 – February 8, 2009) was a Norwegian actress. Family Klouman was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the actor and illustrator Thoralf Klouman and the actress Borghild Johannessen. She was the sister o ...

Career

Early in her career, Borghild Johannessen was associated with the Grønland People's Theater () and the

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(now Oslo). Both of these theaters were run by

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and

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. After the Fahlstrøm Theater closed in 1911, she worked at the Trondheim National Theater. In January 1917, she returned to Kristiania, where she worked at the Central Theater. While engaged with the Fahlstrøm Theater, in May 1907, she co-starred in a guest performance at the Casino Theater in Copenhagen. The same year she participated in the theater's guest performance in Stavanger. In 1909, she performed in

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's opera ''

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'' at the Fahlstrøm Theater. Johannessen also appeared in many non-theater performances, including solo dancing in connection with a performance by her brother-in-law

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at the

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in 1905.

Selected roles

*1905: Estrid in ''Lynggaard & Co.'' by

Hjalmar Bergström Hjalmar Bergström or Hjalmar Bergstrøm may refer to: * Hjalmar Bergström (skier) * Hjalmar Bergström (writer) See also *Hjalmar Borgstrøm Hjalmar Borgstrøm (; 23 March 1864 – 5 July 1925) was a Norwegian composer and music critic who p ...

(Fahlstrøm Theater) *1905: Aulus in ''Quo vadis'' by Stanislav Stange (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1906: Maja in ''Ett köpmanshus i skärgården'' by

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(Grønland People's Theater) *1906: Edmée in ''La Femme de Claude'' by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1907: Fuks the Arctic fox in ''Paa Nordpolen 1907'' by Clary Levy (Grønland People's Theater) *1907: Raina in ''

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'' by

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(Stavanger Theater) *1909: Adeline in the operetta ''

'' by

(Fahlstrøm Theater) *1910: Hélène Dumoulin in ''La Passerelle'' by

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and Fred de Gresac (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1911: Madam Salvesen in ''Baldevins Bryllup'' by

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(Fahlstrøm Theater) *1914: Sasha in ''

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'' by

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( Trondheim National Theater) *1914: Sperling in ''Det lykkelige valg'' by

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(Trondheim National Theater) *1915:

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in '' Pygmalion'' by George Bernard Shaw (Trondheim National Theater) *1916: Mabel in ''

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'' by

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(Trondheim National Theater) *1917: Lola Cornero in ''Der Weg zur Hölle'' by

Gustav Kadelburg Gustav Kadelburg (26 January 1851, in Pest – 11 September 1925, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-German actor and dramatist. He co-authored the hit 1897 play ''The White Horse Inn'' with Oscar Blumenthal which enjoyed popularity in both Europe and ...

( Central Theater) *1917: Martine in ''Kong Midas'' by

Gunnar Heiberg Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg (18 November 1857 – 22 February 1929) was a Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theatre critic. Personal life He was born in Christiania a son of judge Edvard Omsen Heiberg (1829–1884) and his wife Minna ( ...

(Central Theater) *1924: Cecily in ''Kinangozi'' by Prince Wilhelm (Central Theater)

References

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