Grace Elisabeth Grung (May 5, 1889 – February 4, 1974) was a Norwegian actress.

Family

Grace Elisabeth Grung was the daughter of Arnt Henrik Grung (1859–1924), an office manager at a steamship shipping company, and Grace Elisabeth Simonsen (1855–1899). She was unmarried. She was a cousin of the architect

Leif Grung Leif Kuhnle Grung (27 December 1894 – 2 October 1945) was a Norwegian architect. He was among the leading architects in Bergen during the 1920s and 1930s. Background Leif Grung was born in Bergen. He was from a family of Norwegian archi ...

, not to be confused with his wife, the actress

Grace Grung Hjørdis Grace Grung (née Lehmann, December 2, 1895 – November 14, 1988) was a Norwegian actress. Career Grace Grung performed in two one-act plays for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company in 1925. Grung appeared in four film roles between 1931 ...

Career

Grace Elisabeth Grung debuted at the National Theater in 1909 and was intermittently engaged with that theater until the summer of 1919. She then toured with

Agnes Mowinckel Agnes Mowinckel (25 August 1875 – 1 April 1963) was a Norwegian actress and theatre director. Born in Bergen into a distinguished family, she became Norway's first professional stage director. A pioneer in bringing painters to the theatre, she ...

's ensemble and performed with the experimental Intimate Theater ( no, Intimteatret). She was at the Trondheim National Theater from 1923 to 1925, took part in

Hans Bille Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

's tour in 1929, performed at the

Carl Johan Theater The Carl Johan Theater ( no, Carl Johan Teatret) was a theater in Oslo, Norway. It was initially located in the Christiania Tivoli amusement park in Oslo from 1893 to 1895, where it was led by Olaf Mørch Hansson. It staged performance of works suc ...

from 1932 to 1933, and was engaged with the New Theater from 1933 to 1957.

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Grace Grung
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