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- Kåre was born in Asker outside of Oslo, and trained at LAMDA and The Norwegian Academy of Dramatic Arts. He is one of Norway's most experienced actors on stage and screen.
He has been employed as a regular member at The National Theatre of Norway (NTN) since 1999, where he has performed in more than 30 productions including Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Skylight; Fanny and Alexander; When We Dead Awaken; Peer Gynt; League of Youth; Love's Comedy; An Ideal Husband and The Threepenny Opera.
Kåre has also performed the part of Charlie Conlon in Stones In His Pockets more than 250 times, with opening night at The National Theatre of Norway in 2002.
Other theatre credits include: Peter Skuleson in The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen (The National Theatre of Norway, directed by Terry Hands) and as King Håkon Håkonsson once again in Ibsen's The Pretenders (The Royal Theatre of Denmark, directed by Alexander Mørch Eidem); The Glass Menagerie; Hamlet; West Side Story (Trøndelag Theatre) Singing In The Rain and My Fair Lady (Oslo New Theatre).
From 2000 to 2003 he was one of the artistic directors of TNTs studio stage.
TV and Film credits include: Boys Will Be Boys (Emmy nominated); Ibsen Centennial Awards; Wide Blue Yonder with Brian Cox; The Philanthropist (NBC series); Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice (ITN); King Curling and The Conqueror (NRK).
Concert credits include: performances at various jazz venues in Norway and was the headline act during Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band concert at the London Palladium.
Awards include Best Actor Award (Blå fugl) for Ibsen's Love's Comedy, Trøndelag Theatre Award for Hamlet and The Continental Award for Stones In His Pockets.
In 2012, Kåre performed the leading role of The Pilot (and seven other characters) in Nicholas Lloyd Webber & James D Reid's World Premiere of The Little Prince at The Lyric Theatre in Belfast
In 2013, Artistic director of the Norwegian Ibsen Company, Kåre Conradi, played the leading role in a full scale outdoor production of Peer Gynt in Horten, Norway, alongside a cast of about 40 actors. This was in co-operation with Teater Ibsen and the Navy Orchestra, directed by award winning theater/film director - and director of the new Los Angeles Theatre Center - José Luis Valenzuela.
After an enormous success with Little Eyolf at The National Theatre in 2015 Kåre Conradi played Edward IV in Trevor Nunn's production of The Wars of the Roses at The Rose Theatre. Traveling back and forth performing Ibsen and Shakespeare in Oslo and London. He just returned this summer from giving talks on Ibsen in Rome and Amalfi. Before that that he finished shooting a Viking series for NRK "Vikingane" and finished a long run as Richard III at The National Theatre in Norway. A role for which he received The Hedda Award (Norways Olivier Award) for Best Actor 2016.
Most recently, Kåre appeared in Clique for BBC1 TV and Norsemen / Vikingane for NRK. - Actor
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Espen Skjønberg was born on 7 April 1924 in Asker, Norway. He was an actor, known for Secondløitnanten (1993), Codename: Kyril (1988) and O'Horten (2007). He was married to Mona Hofland. He died on 26 August 2022 in Norway.- Grete Nordrå was born on 22 November 1924 in Asker, Norway. She was an actress, known for The Witches (1990), Nine Lives (1957) and Mother's Elling (2003). She died on 13 March 2012 in Bergen, Norway.
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Erik Lie was born on 8 April 1948 in Asker, Norway. He is an actor and writer, known for Dykket (1989), Sweetwater (1988) and Ta den ring (1982).- Born on 3 December 1969 in Asker, Norway, Halvard Hanevold is a former biathlete with a long successful career. Hanevold made his World Cup debut on 8 March 1992. His first Olympic Games were in 1994 in Lillehammer. He was 46th in the 20 km Individual and 7th in the relay. One year later at the 1995 World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva, Hanevold won the gold medal with the team. That was the only discipline he took part in. His big breakthrough occurred during the 1997-1998 season. On 15 January 1998, Hanevold won his first World Cup race - the 20 km Individual in Antholz-Anterselva. Next month he was part of the Norwegian team that represent their country at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. On 11 February 1998, Hanevold won his first Olympic medal - gold in the 20 km Individual. And later a silver in the relay event. In the other disciplines he competed only in the 10 km sprint where finished 8th. At the end of the season, Hanevold was at the prestigious 4th position in the overall. After the Olympics, at the very beginning of the new season 1998-1999, he won a gold medal in the relay at the 1998 World Championships in Pokljuka and placed 13th in the pursuit. Later, on 12 March 1999, Hanevold won the 10 km sprint in Holmenkollen. He concluded the season in the Top 10 at number 5. The 1999-2000 has been another success in his career. Hanevold made two World Cup victories. In January 2000 in Ruhpolding he won the 12.5 km pursuit and in March, the Individual in Lahti. During the 1999 World Championships in Kontiolahti, Hanevold claimed the bronze medal with the relay team. For the first time in his career, he competed in all races at a World Championship. Placed 37th in the Individual, 13th in both the sprint and pursuit and 17th in the mass start. Next year at the 2000 World Championships in Holmenkollen, Hanevold won the silver medal in the relay. In the other disciplines finished 10th in the Individual, 12th in the sprint, 5th in the pursuit and 10th in the mass start. In spite of all the achievements, medals and podiums, Hanevold didn't make an individual victory on the World Cup tour since the 2000. The 2001 World Championships in Pokljuka proved to be another success. He won two bronze medals in the sprint and with the relay. Placed 44th in the Individual and 9th in the pursuit and mass start. At the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Hanevold added another gold Olympic medal with the relay to his collection. In the other disciplines was 5th in the Individual, 13th in the sprint and 8th in the pursuit. During the 2002-2003 season, Hanevold won a gold medal in the 20 km Individual and a silver medal in the pursuit at the 2003 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk. He was twice 4th in the sprint and relay; 8th in the mass start. In 2003-2004 Halvard Hanevold made two World Cup victories. He won the mass start in Pokljuka and the sprint in Ruhpolding. At the 2004 World Championships tin Oberhof took the silver medal in the relay. Placed 38th in the Individual, 18th in the sprint, 5th in the pursuit and mass start. During the following World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen, Hanevold won a gold medal in the relay, came 30th in the Individual and 11th in the mass start. The 2005-2006 was an Olympic season. Hanevold took part in the Games in Turin in 2006 and won two medals. He claimed the bronze in the Individual and the silver in the sprint. Was twice 5th in the pursuit and the relay; 7th in the mass start. That season Hanevold made a victory in the 15 km mass start in Oberhof. The season concluded at number 7 in the overall. After this exhausting but remarkably successful season, in December 2006 at the World Championships in Pokljuka, the unstoppable Hanevold won a silver medal in the mixed relay. This was his first medal for the new biathlon type of race that entered the schedule. He didn't start in any other disciplines. At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva, Hanevold claimed the silver in the relay. He came 10th in the Individual, 23rd in the sprint, 20th in the pursuit and 18th in the mass start. The next year, 2008, the World Championships were held in Östersund. Amazing, Hanevold won two silver medals - in the sprint and in the relay. His last World Championships were the ones in 2009 in Pyeongchang. Many said that it was time for Hanevold to end his long career but the Norwegian proved them all wrong by winning two medals. He won the bronze in the sprint and the gold in the relay. Placed 6th in the pursuit and 13th in the mass start. The 2010 Olympics in Vancouver were indeed his last. Halvard Hanevold was part of that outstanding relay alongside Ole Einar Bjørndalen and then youngsters Emil Hegle Svendsen and Tarjei Bø to win the gold medal. In the other disciplines Hanevold finished 24th in the sprint, 17th in the pursuit and 19th in the relay. After the Games, Halvard Hanevold officially retired from the sport with a total of 9 individual of all 33 victories, 40 individual of all 97 podiums and two discipline titles for the Individual in 1997-1998 and 2002-2003.
- Einar Henry Gerhardsen was born in Asker, outside Oslo, Norway in 1897. Allready at age 10 he started working as a busboy, a job he kept for 8 years. From 1915 to 1922 he was an employee of Oslo Veivesen (Oslo Road). In 1919 he became leader of the Veivesen's workers union. This was to be the start of a rising career in union politics that in 1923 would lead to the position of political secretary in the Norwegian Labour Party, and from 1926 to 1936 in Oslo's Labour Party. He became vice chairman of the Party in 1939, and following world war 2 he was chairman and leader of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1965. From 1932 Gerhardsen was also a member of the city council of Oslo, Norway's capital. He was deputy mayor from 1938 to 1940, and functioning mayor of the city for a few hours on april 9th 1940, just before Adolf Hitler's troops invaded Norway and sieged power. The German occupants refused to accept Gerhardsen as mayor of Oslo and he fled the city together with the government, for exile in neighbouring Sweden. In June 1940, Gerhardsen decided to return to Norway to safeguard the interests of the Norwegian labour unions. Realizing he would most certainly be arrested if returning to Norway he still left his safe-haven in Sweden and came back to Oslo. In Norway he subsequently became an active opposition worker against the Germans. In September 1941 Gerhardsen was arrested by the Nazi government and sent off to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Germany. Gerhardsen himself later wrote: "The prisoners died of hunger, cold, hard labour, the lack of sleep and of mistreatment. Blokkeldste reported the deaths before we entered the barracks at night. We took of our hats and stood there, in rags, filthy, hungry, frozen stiff, and remembered our dead comrades."
After three grueling years in Sachsenhausen he was shipped back and placed in the large prison camp of Grini, just outside Oslo. A historian later ment this happened as a gesture from a Gestapo officer, after an influential Norwegian pulled some strings. One of Gerhardsen's sons, Truls, 50 years later said his father said this happened because the Germans wanted a prominent POW in Norway, in case the German troops in the country needed bargaining chips to get away, should Hitler loose the war. Gerhardsen stayed imprisoned at Grini for a year, until the liberation of Norway on May 8th 1945.
When the first government of liberated Norway was to be put together the job offer went to Paal Berg, leader of the Norwegian Homefront during the war. He finally gave up trying and the offer was then given to Einar Gerhardsen, who had just been elected the new chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party. On June 25th, Gerhardsen, then largely unknown in the general public, created a coalition government with himself as prime-minister. After the first elections that autumn Gerhardsen put together his second government, this time a pure Labour Party cabinet. In the elections of 1949 the Labour Party won a landslide victory and got more than half of the seats in the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) creating an even firmer basis for Gerhardsen's government.
On November 10th 1951, Gerhardsen resigned from the post of prime-minister and gave it to fellow party member Oscar Torp. Gerhardsen then took over Torp's position as the Labour Party's groupleader in parliament. In 1954, Gerhardsen was elected the new President of Parliament (Stortingspresident), all though a position of very little real power (compared to the post of prime-minister) the position is still regarded as the second highest chain of command in Norway, behind his Majesty the King. On January 22th 1955, Gerhardsen returned to the post of prime-minister, forming his third cabinet (Oscar Torp took over the role of President of Parliament). The third Gerhardsen government helped concrete the Labour Party as the most important political party in Norwegian history, for many years outnumbering all the other parties combined in parliament. This Gerhardsen government sat for 8 years, until the 28th of August when they fell because of the Kings Bay case (regarding a report revealing poor safety at a mining complex on Spitsbergen, where 21 miners died in a 1962-explosion). The darkest chapter in the saga of the much loved politician. September 20th the same year Gerhardsen again was set to form a new government, his fourth. This, his last cabinet, steered the country for two years until the opposing coalition parties got the majority of parliament in the 1965 elections. October 12th 1965 was Einar Gerhardsen's last day as prime-minister of Norway. He returned to parliament where he was elected in 1945, and held his post until 1969, when he retired from active politics.
A few years later he became a widower when his wife through several years, Werna, suddenly passed away. At the time of his death in 1987, Einar Gerhardsen was considered the greatest and most influential statesman in modern Norwegian history. For many Norwegians he was just known as 'Landsfaderen'("the nation's father"). An impressive feat for someone who in the 1920s seemed more like a revolutionary punk, receiving several sentences for his political acts. He followed the Labour Party's transformation to reformism in the 1930s, was imensely colored by the feeling of brother - and sisterhood between patriotic Norwegians during the German occupation, and came out as a man of cooperation in the plight of rebuilding Norway after World War II. For 17 years he was the head of government, for 20 years his party's chairman, and at the same time received a huge amount of trust and respect from his opposing colleagues. He will probably always remain the symbol of the first 20 years of the Norwegian post-war era, a period of prosperity, relatively good political harmony, NATO-membership and a strong growing connection with the rest of the world, most importantly the United States. One of his sons, Rune Gerhardsen, later followed in his footsteps and become a prominent politician in the same party. - Director
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Thomas Wangsmo grew up in Asker, a small place just outside Oslo, Norway. He first got into filmmaking while doing his national service in the Norwegian Air Force, working as an assistant photographer and videographer. A year after completing his service he started his film education at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in England, graduating with a BA Honors degree in Film Production. He later went on to do an MFA degree in Film Production at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, graduating in 2010.
In the summer of 2008, between the first and second year of his MFA degree, Thomas started his collaboration with Norwegian producer Daniel Henriksbø and the production company Vidvinkel Film. This resulted in three short films, one of which went on to win the UIP Award for Best European Short Film at Ghent Film Festival in Belgium, making it the ninth Norwegian short film in history to be nominated for Best European Short at the European Academy Awards, in 2010. That film was Amor.
His first feature film as writer and director, Into the Dark (Inn i mørket), was released in Norway in early 2012, and had its international premiere in the First Films Competition at Montreal World Film Festival in August 2012. In addition to writing and directing, Wangsmo has edited all his own films so far, and has often also filled the roles of cinematographer and producer.- Actress
Beautiful Norwegian character actress,best known for her role as Milja in the film: "Ungen" (The Baby) 1938. A role she also played on the stage at The Norwegian Theater in Oslo, she was a leading lady at that theater for almost fifty years.
A great actress in classical plays,among her parts were: Ismene in: "Antigone" (Sofokles),Titania in: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Shakespeare) and as Olga in: "Three Sisters".(Chekhov)
In films she played many leading parts, and she got several offers from abroad, but she chose to stay at home in Oslo. She played the title role in the film: "Godvakker-Maren" in 1940, and had also a great appearance in the film: "Dei svarte hestane" , (The Black Horses) in 1951, sadly this was her last film role.
After retiring from the stage in 1983, she lived in Oslo were she died at the age of 93.