- 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.
- Her first stage production was an adaption of Gunnar Heiberg's play Gerts have in 1930.
- It was in the period just after the war and during the 1950s that Gerda Ring made her strongest mark as a stage instructor, but she was also active in the 1960s.
- Ring had her stage debut at Det Nye Teater in Copenhagen in 1911, in the play Kongens hjerte, written by Barbra Ring (Gerda's mother).
- She was the daughter of writer Barbra Ring, and married actor and theatre director Halfdan Christensen in 1922.
- She was appointed Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1956, and was also Knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.
- Among the many playwrights she introduced to the Norwegian theater audience were also new names such as John Osborne and Stig Dagerman with The Shadow of Mart .
- After the war Ring staged several productions, including plays by Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and Henrik Ibsen.
- She received the Critics' Prize for her adaptation of Sartre's Dirty Hands in 1950.
- After she retired for the age limit, she worked particularly in Denmark and Iceland .
- In addition to her work at the National Theatre, she also produced for Radioteatret, for Oslo Nye Teater, Riksteatret, Den Nationale Scene and Rogaland Teater, and for theatres in Denmark, Iceland and China.
- She was a Norwegian stage actress and stage producer.
- She played at the National Theatre from 1912 to 1961. Among her roles were "Hedvig" in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and "Eleonora" in Strindberg's Easter.
- During the Second World War Ring played a leading role in the theatre conflict which emerged in 1941, being on the board of the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association. One of the disagreements was whether the actors were obliged to participate in radio productions. After several actors, including Ring, refused to participate for Radioteatret in May 1941, the Gestapo intervened, and the group had their working permissions revoked. This was 21 May, and already the same evening a strike was effective in Oslo, and from the next day also in Bergen and Trondheim. Several theatre leaders were eventually arrested, but the strike lasted until end of June, after long negotiations, which also included German threats of death by court-martial.
- She was one of the founders and members of the Norwegian Academy .
- Ring made his film debut in 1914 in the Danish silent film Brudekjolen ( I Dødens Brudeslør ). In the period 1914-15, she recorded four silent films.
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