Borghild Johannessen (December 14, 1884 – October 14, 1972) was a Norwegian actress, singer, and dancer.

Family

Borghild Johannessen was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

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, the daughter of the actors Bernt Johan Johannessen and Laura Elvig, and the sister of the actress Svanhild Johannessen. On November 29, 1915, she married the actor

Thoralf Klouman Thoralf Klouman (26 April 1890 – 17 May 1940) was a Norwegian satirical illustrator and actor. Personal life Thoralf Klouman was born in the village Innvik in the district of Nordfjord as the son of physician Hans Henrik Gerhard Klouman an ...

, whom she worked with at the Trondheim National Theater. They were the parents of the pianist and composer

Carsten Klouman Carsten Klouman (21 August 1923 – 2 July 2004) was born in Oslo and was a Norwegian pianist, arranger and composer. He was the son of the actor Thoralf Klouman and the actress Borghild Johannessen. He was a jazz pianist in the group String Swi ...

and the actress

Wenche Klouman Wenche Klouman (May 11, 1918 – February 8, 2009) was a Norwegian actress. Family Klouman was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the actor and illustrator Thoralf Klouman and the actress Borghild Johannessen. She was the sister of ...

Career

Early in her career, Borghild Johannessen was associated with the Grønland People's Theater ( no, Grønland Folketeater) and the Fahlstrøm Theater in

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(now Oslo). Both of these theaters were run by

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and

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. After the Fahlstrøm Theater closed in 1911, she worked at the Trondheim National Theater. In January 1917, she returned to Kristiania, where she worked at the Central Theater. While engaged with the Fahlstrøm Theater, in May 1907, she co-starred in a guest performance at the Casino Theater in Copenhagen. The same year she participated in the theater's guest performance in Stavanger. In 1909, she performed in Leo Fall's opera ''

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'' at the Fahlstrøm Theater. Johannessen also appeared in many non-theater performances, including solo dancing in connection with a performance by her brother-in-law

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at the

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in 1905.

Selected roles

*1905: Estrid in ''Lynggaard & Co.'' by Hjalmar Bergstrøm (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1905: Aulus in ''Quo vadis'' by Stanislav Stange (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1906: Maja in ''Ett köpmanshus i skärgården'' by

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(Grønland People's Theater) *1906: Edmée in ''La Femme de Claude'' by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1907: Fuks the Arctic fox in ''Paa Nordpolen 1907'' by Clary Levy (Grønland People's Theater) *1907: Raina in ''

Arms and the Man ''Arms and the Man'' is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's ''Aeneid'', in Latin: ''Arma virumque cano'' ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Aven ...

'' by

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(Stavanger Theater) *1909: Adeline in the operetta ''

'' by Leo Fall (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1910: Hélène Dumoulin in ''La Passerelle'' by

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and

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(Fahlstrøm Theater) *1911: Madam Salvesen in ''Baldevins Bryllup'' by Vilhelm Krag (Fahlstrøm Theater) *1914: Sasha in ''

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'' by

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( Trondheim National Theater) *1914: Sperling in ''Det lykkelige valg'' by

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(Trondheim National Theater) *1915: Eliza Doolittle in ''

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'' by George Bernard Shaw (Trondheim National Theater) *1916: Mabel in ''

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'' by

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(Trondheim National Theater) *1917: Lola Cornero in ''Der Weg zur Hölle'' by

Gustav Kadelburg Gustav Kadelburg (26 January 1851, in Pest – 11 September 1925, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-German Jewish actor, dramatist, writer. He made his first appearance at Leipzig in 1869, and two years later played at the Wallnertheater in Berlin ...

( Central Theater) *1917: Martine in ''Kong Midas'' by

Gunnar Heiberg Gunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg (18 November 1857 – 22 February 1929) was a Norway, Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theatre critic. Personal life He was born in Oslo, Christiania a son of judge Edvard Omsen Heiberg (1829–1884) and his w ...

(Central Theater) *1924: Cecily in ''Kinangozi'' by Prince Wilhelm (Central Theater)

References

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