Fredrikke Nielsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fredrikke Nielsen

Norwegian actress

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1837

Place of Birth: Avaldsnes, Rogaland, Norway

Date of Death: 07-Jul-1912

Profession: actor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.