Elise (Elisabeth Frederikke Margrethe) Holst (23 November 1811 – 8 April 1891), was a Danish stage actress. She was active at the
Royal Danish Theatre
The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: ') is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The theatre was founded in 1748, first s ...
in 1827-1870, and is counted as among the elite of her profession at the time, famed as a tragedienne.
Elise Holst was the daughter of the writer
Jens Stephan Heger and the actress
Eline Heger and married from 1834 to the actor
Wilhelm Conrad Holst.
She was instructed by her mother and made her debut in 1827. She mainly played the role of
ingenue in tragedies, and are famed for her interpretations of the contemporary ideal of female virtue in the style of new classicism, and are described as a great tragedienne.
References
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
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1811 births
1891 deaths
19th-century Danish actresses
Danish stage actresses