Anna Larssen

Anna Vilhelmine Johanne Dorthea Larssen Bjørner née Halberg (1875–1955) was a Danish actress and Pentecostal preacher. She was born in to a theatrical family and began appearing in plays at the age of six. However her father died and her mother had to give away three of her children to survive. She was seen as a talented actress when she appeared aged sixteen in Musset's Man skal nik spøge med Kærlighenden.

In 1919 she and her husband founded an evangelical meeting place which in 1924 joined the Apostolic Church in Wales, England and Scotland. In December 1908, she was invited to dine with the Methodist minister Thomas Barratt who was promoting the Pentecostal movement in Denmark. In her memoirs, she reported she felt a calling to join the movement herself and after completing performances in the stage play Kameliadamen, she decided to devote her life to preaching.

In 1910, at a Pentecostal meeting in Copenhagen, she met Sigurd Bjørner, who invited her to preach at Helsingør. According to her own account, while praying with Bjørner, she heard the voice of God telling her "Here is the man I have chosen for you". She married him in July 1912 and went on to assist him as the two of them preached across Denmark, travelling from place to place in a gypsy van. In 1919, they opened Evangeliehuset, a meeting place near Copenhagen's Trianglen.