Ingeborg Steffens (October 3, 1907 – April 27, 1982) was a Norwegian actress.
Steffens was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...
(now Oslo), Norway.
She was the daughter of Major General
William Steffens
William Steffens (5 November 1880 – 1964) was a Norwegian military officer, born in Christiania. He was Major General and commander of the Norwegian 4th Division from 1935. During the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 he was Head of the Armed Forc ...
(1880–1964) and Anette Eger (1884–1944). She was the first wife of the actor
Georg Richter
Georg Lüddeckens Alexander Richter (27 December 1915 – 10 May 1972) was a German-born Norwegian actor.
Personal life
Richter was born in Berlin to German actor Georg Alexander and Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen. His stepfather was th ...
.
Steffens was engaged at the
Oslo New Theater from 1930 to 1947. Steffens made her film debut in 1951 in
Astrid Henning-Jensen
Astrid Henning-Jensen (born Astrid Smahl; 10 December 1914 – 5 January 2002) was a Danish film director, actress, editor and screenwriter.
Early life
Henning-Jensen was born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg in 1914, to parents Fe ...
's film ''
Kranes konditori
''Kranes konditori'' (Krane's Café) is a Norwegian drama film from 1951 directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen. Henning-Jensen also wrote the screenplay, which was based on Cora Sandel's novel of the same name.
Plot
The film takes place in a small ...
'' and then starred in ''
Ukjent mann'' (1951) and ''
Andrine og Kjell
''Andrine og Kjell'' is a 1952 Norwegian drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified ...
'' (1952).
Filmography
*1951: ''
Kranes konditori
''Kranes konditori'' (Krane's Café) is a Norwegian drama film from 1951 directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen. Henning-Jensen also wrote the screenplay, which was based on Cora Sandel's novel of the same name.
Plot
The film takes place in a small ...
'' as Miss Sønstegård
*1951: ''
Ukjent mann'' as Miss Unstad
*1952: ''
Andrine og Kjell
''Andrine og Kjell'' is a 1952 Norwegian drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified ...
'' as Mrs. Borck
References
External links
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Ingeborg Steffensat the
Swedish Film Database
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The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svenska Filminstitutet) was founded in 1963 to support and develop the S ...
Ingeborg Steffensat
Filmfront
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Ingeborg Steffensat Sceneweb
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1907 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Norwegian actresses
Actresses from Oslo