Ellen Horn (born Ellen Stoesen, 1 February 1951) is a Norwegian actress, theatre director, and politician for the Labour Party.Rossiné

Career

Horn started as a puppet actor at

Oslo Nye Teater Oslo Nye Teater is a theater located in Oslo, Norway. The theater has its main stage in its own theater house at Rosenkrantz' gate 10. It is one of Norway's most visited theatres. Oslo Nye Teater AS is wholly owned by Oslo Municipality. Histor ...

(1969–70), and was educated at the Teaterhøyskolen (1972–75), and since the late 1980s has been one of the most central and prominent figures in Norwegian theater. As an actress, she has distinguished herself by her versatility; as director at the

Nationaltheatret The National Theatre in Oslo ( no, Nationaltheatret) 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 Christia ...

(1992-2000), she managed to turn a money-losing company with a highly turbulent business culture into a thriving theater both financially and artistically. Horn has been an associate of

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and Nationaltheatret, and is currently director of

Riksteatret Riksteatret (English: National Traveling Theater) is a Norwegian touring theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or ima ...

. Horn further developed and consolidated the Ibsen Festival, and led the Nationaltheatret through its 100th anniversary in 1999. On that occasion, she was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Olav. During Stoltenberg's First Cabinet she was

Minister of Culture A culture minister or a heritage minister is a common cabinet position in governments. The culture minister is typically responsible for cultural policy, which often includes arts policy (direct and indirect support to artists and arts organizatio ...

(2000-2001). After leaving the cabinet, Horn returned to the

as an actor, and in recent years she has toured with the theater productions ''Undset'' and ''Jeg kunne gråte blod'' (about

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and

Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, Point of view ...

). Both as theater director and as minister, she was met by doubts and questions whether she was qualified enough to undertake such large tasks, but she put most of the skepticism to shame with her hard and focused work and her pragmatic attitude, and by growing with the new roles.

Private life

Horn was married (1988) to the Norwegian Jazz drummer Jon Christensen (1943-2020), and she has two children: theater director Kjersti Horn (b. 1977, from her marriage (1973–81) to scenographer Per Kristian Horn, b. 1941), and singer and actress

Emilie Stoesen Christensen Emilie Stoesen Christensen (born 1986 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer and actor, the daughter of Jazz drummer Jon Christensen (1943–2020) and actress Ellen Horn (b. Stoesen in 1951), and half sister of Theater director Kjersti H ...

(b. 1986) from her current marriage.

Honors

*Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1999

Selected acting roles

Theater

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in ''Undset'' (Trøndelag Teater 2005)

Film

* 1976: '' Oss'' as Vera * 1985: ''Adjø solidaritet (Farewell Illusions)'' as Margrete (in Norwegian)

References

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External links

Ellen Horn Biography - SNL.no
Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian)
Ellen Horn
at Stortinget (in Norwegian) 1951 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Actresses from Oslo Actresses from Montreal Politicians from Oslo Politicians from Montreal Ministers of Culture of Norway Norwegian theatre directors Women government ministers of Norway Norwegian stage actresses Norwegian actor-politicians {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub