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Jul 05, 1837 Avaldsnes, Rogaland, Norway Died on 07 Jul 1912 (aged 75)
Norwegian actress
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About Fredrikke Nielsen
- Fredrikke Louise Nielsen (born Fredrikke Louise Jensen July 5, 1837 in Haugesund, died July 7, 1912 in Bergen), was a popular actress and a women's pioneer.
- She played more than 300 roles in her twenty-six-year-long career, and was personally directed by both Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
- Ibsen chose her to play Signe, one of the lead characters in The Feast at Solhaug (1856), which was his first audience success.
- In 1880, Nielsen left the stage and joined the Methodist Movement in Bergen.
- She now became a preacher, first in Scandinavia, and later in the United States.
- She felt a strong social commitment and used the pulpit for preaching other topics than religion, such as women's and children's rights. Fredrikke Nielsen was married to actor Harald Nielsen.
- She is also the great-grandmother of artist Gunnar Haugland.
