Nils Sletta (23 April 1943 – 26 November 2020) was a Norwegian actor.
Career
Born in
Tuddal
Tuddal is a village in Hjartdal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island o ...
in 1943, Sletta made his stage debut at
Nationaltheatret
The National Theatre in Oslo () is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts.
History
The theatre had its first performance on 1 September 1899 but can trace its origins to Christiania Theatre, which was ...
in 1964. His next assignments were with
Riksteatret
Riksteatret (English: National Traveling Theater) is a Norwegian touring theatre. It was established by law in 1948. Its first performance was in Kirkenes in 1949, with Sigurd Christiansen's play ''En reise i natten''. The theatre plays on about ...
from 1965 to 1967, and with
Trøndelag Teater
Trøndelag Teater is a large theater in the city of Trondheim, in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Trøndelag Teater stages large-scale dance and musical performances.
History
Originally built in 1816, the theater is the oldest stage in Scandinavia ...
from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 he was appointed at
Det Norske Teatret
Det Norske Teatret ()Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabløs. It opened in 19 ...
. He made his film debut in 1967, in
Skouen's ''
Musikanter
''Musikanter'' (The Musicians) is a 1967 Norwegian comedy film directed and written by Arne Skouen. Leif Juster appears in the role of Maistro. The film premiered on August 29, 1967, at theaters in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansand, Drammen, ...
'', and appeared in around thirty films or television series.
In 1997 he received the
Theatre Critics Award from the
Norwegian Critics' Association, for his role "Mattis" in a theatre adaptation of
Vesaas' novel ''
Fuglane''. He received Aksel Waldemar's Memorial Prize twice, in 2001 and 2007, for his contribution to the application of
Nynorsk language
Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...
on stage.
Gullruten
Gullruten ("Golden Screen") is an annual award for the Norway, Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by ''Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening''. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, Norwegian Broa ...
award in 2008.[
]
Personal life
Sletta lived together with actress Grethe Ryen, and was the father of jazz musician Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen.[
He died on 26 November 2020.][
]
References
External links
Nils Sletta at IMDb
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1943 births
2020 deaths
Norwegian male stage actors
Norwegian male film actors
20th-century Norwegian male actors
21st-century Norwegian male actors
People from Hjartdal