Sofie Marie Parelius (18 September 1823 – 18 September 1902) was a Norwegian stage actress. She was known for her ability in comedy and viewed as one of the best Norwegian actors of her time in the classic works of Ludvig Holberg. She belonged to the elite of the actors at the Christiania Theatre in the second half of the 19th-century, when Norwegian actors successively replaced the Danish on Norway's national stage.

Biography

Sofie Parelius was born in

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. She was the daughter of Henrich Kjønning Parelius and Sofie Dahm. She debuted in 1852 at the

Christiania Norwegian Theatre The Christiania Norwegian Theatre ( no, Kristiania norske Theater) was founded in 1852 under the name Norwegian Dramatic School. The initiative came from lieutenant engineer Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg (1817–1882) after he had been disappo ...

in Oslo. She was at Det norske Theater in Bergen in 1857-1860. She was active at the Christiania Theatre in 1860-1899, and at the Christiania Folketheater under the management of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson from 1870 to 1872. Parelius appeared in the play ''

Peer Gynt ''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five- act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1876. Written in Norwegian, it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed ''Per Gynt'', the Norwegian fairy tale on wh ...

'' by

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

at the premiere performance at Christiania Theater on 24 February 1876.

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* Blanc, Tharald Høyerup:
Christiania theaters historie 1827-1877
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