Anna Borg

Anna Guðmundína Guðrún Borg (; 30 July 1903 – 14 April 1963) was a Danish-Icelandic actress of stage and screen and autobiographer. The daughter of the Icelandic actress , she grew up in a household where theatre was part of her daily life and began acting at age nine. Borg joined the Royal Danish Theatre in 1928, portraying strong and pure female characters, and also performed in the and the National Theatre of Iceland. She and 11 other people were killed in an aeroplane accident near Oslo in April 1963 and her memoirs were published posthumously the following year. Borg was a recipient of the Ingenio et arti theatre award, the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat, the and the .

Early life and education Borg was born on 30 July 1903 in Reykjavík, Iceland, the fourth child of the actress and the barrister Borgthór Jósefsson. As was the case with many children of actors in Iðnó, becoming one of the first Icelanders to do so. That same year, Borg played Anne Boleyn in Kaj Munk's Cant. Borg went on do character acting, being cast in the role of Klytemnestra in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies in 1946, portrayed Regina Hubbard Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes a year later and Laura in Strindberg's The Father in 1950.

Personal life and death Borg married Reumert in Reykjavik on 5 August 1932 and they had two children; Her memoirs, Anna Borgs erindringer, were published posthumously in 1964.