- Born
- Died
- She became one of the longest living actresses in the world, she died at the formidable age of 107 1/2 years in January 1999.
Stage debut back in 1911, in a play written by her mother, the famous writer Barbra Ring. (1870-1955)
She was also the very first woman in Norway who got a driving license, and while filming in Denmark she was badly injured in a car fire. After that accident she did not want to go in front of a camera any more. She therefore concentrated her work to the stage, both as an actress, and from 1930 on, as a very gifted director.
During the war she and six other actors refused to work in a radio-play, because the Norwegian broadcasting were under the total control by the Nazi authority. All of them immediately lost their right to work, and the day after all actors organized in the actors union went on striking in solidarity. The strike lasted for five weeks, and was the first organized action against the Nazi-regime in Norway!
Still under pressure, she and her husband Halfdan Christensen, who also was a famous actor, had to escape to Sweden, where they established a free Norwegian theater group called Fri norsk scene.
After the war she continued her work as stage director until old age.- IMDb Mini Biography By: pekka trondsen
- SpouseChristensen, Halfdan(1921 - 1950) (his death, 2 children)
- Mother of actors Pelle and Barbra Christensen.
- She is buried in Oslo Western Civil Cemetery.
- Gerda Ring became head of the National Theatre's student school in 1947 and worked as a teacher at the Statens Teaterskole 1953-73.
- Great psychological insight was especially Gerda Ring's characteristic as an instructor. She combined intellectualism and literary knowledge with imagination and the ability to create excitement in the performances.
- Ring was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1951.
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