Erna Schøyen

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Erna Schøyen
Born(1887-03-01)March 1, 1887
Kabelvåg, Norway
DiedDecember 21, 1968(1968-12-21) (aged 81)
Oslo, Norway
OccupationActress
Years active1906–1965

Erna Kamilla Schøyen (born Erna Kamille Berg, March 1, 1887 – December 21, 1968) was a Norwegian actress.[1]

Career[edit]

Schøyen trained as an actress at the National Theatre from 1905 to 1906, and she had her debut at the Fahlstrøm Theater in 1906.[2] She remained there until she relocated to the Central Theater in 1911, where she worked until 1959. Schøyen was also engaged with Chat Noir from 1920 to 1924.[2]

Schøyen also appeared in dozens of films, including some of Norway's first silent films. When Alice in Wonderland was dubbed into Norwegian in 1951, Schøyen played one of the voices.[3] She was a master of the Northern Norwegian dialect and played the grandmother of Bodø (nicknamed after a town in northern Norway) in one of the Stompa films,[4][5] based on the Jennings novels. Schøyen continued working until she was almost 80 years old.

Family[edit]

Schøyen was born Erna Kamille Berg in Kabelvåg to the bookseller Ørger Johannes Berg (1860–?) and Kamilla Hamine Benjaminsen (1865–1938).[2] She married the entomologist Thor Hiorth Schøyen (1885–1961) on June 19, 1910.[1] Their daughter was the actress Vivi Schøyen (1918–2014), who was the mother of the journalist Hege Duckert (born 1962).

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Thor Hiorth Schøyen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Erna Schøyen". Dansk film database. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  3. ^ "Alice i eventyrland". NRK. March 8, 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  4. ^ "Erna Schøyen". IMDb. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  5. ^ Rasmussen, Bjørn (1968). Filmens hvem-vad-hvor: Udenlanske film 1950-1967. Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag. p. 874.

External links[edit]

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