Janne Formoe (born 13 July 1975) is a Norwegian actress.
Career
She grew up in
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...
as a daughter of
Terje Formoe
Terje Falk Formoe (born 6 December 1949) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and author.
Background
Born in Fredrikstad, Norway, he was educated as a schoolteacher. In the 1970s, he began making records of his music. He curren ...
. Her father established the ''
Captain Sabertooth'' franchise, where Janne Formoe was a permanent cast member as Sunniva. She joined
Agder Teater at the age of nine.
In May 2000 she graduated from the
Norwegian Academy of Theatre.
In 2003 she appeared in the film ''
Buddy'' and the TV series ''Svarte penger, hvite løgner''. She starred in plays ranging from ''
The Master Builder'' to ''
Dyrene i Hakkebakkeskogen''
and ''
The Witches''. She featured in
radio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the liste ...
s and
audiobook
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements.
Spoken audio has been available in sch ...
s.
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In the spring of 2004, she staged the solo show ''Neverending Story'' at Smuget. She also participated in a prank against Kristopher Schau, one of four hosts of '' Team Antonsen''. Formoe gave the impression that she would spent the night with Schau, the buildup to which was filmed with ]hidden camera
A hidden camera or spy camera is a camera used to photograph or record subjects, often people, without their knowledge. The camera may be considered "hidden" because it is not visible to the subject being filmed, or is disguised as another obje ...
s before the prank was unveiled. The segment aired on ''Team Antonsen''.
She joined the '' Hotel Cæsar'' cast as Mona Lizzie, and became a part of the long-running '' Karsten og Petra'' franchise as Petra's mother. She continued in ''Captain Sabertooth'' films, and joined the cast as main character Eva in TV Norge's '.
She also started a podcast with , played Mari in TV 2's ''Farfar'' and sat on the judge's panel in '' Norske Talenter''. In 2022 she starred in the female buddy film ''Jentetur'', and ventured into stand up comedy, first in a show with and .[
]
Personal life
In the late 1990s she was in a relationship with Espen Lind
Espen Lind (born 13 May 1971) is a Norwegian record producer, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is one half of the production team Espionage, and together with his long time partner Amund Bjorklund he has written and/or produced ...
.
She started dating music producer Jan Fredrik Karlsen in March 2004. They moved to Nordstrand and had a daughter in 2005, but split up. Formoe moved to Grünerløkka.
References
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1975 births
Living people
People from Kristiansand
Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni
Norwegian stage actresses
Norwegian television actresses
Norwegian film actresses