Borghild Johannessen

Borghild Johannessen (December 14, 1884 – October 14, 1972) was a Norwegian actress, singer, and dancer.

Biography Johannessen was born on December 14, 1884, in Bergen, Norway, the daughter of the actors Bernt Johan Johannessen and Laura Elvig, and the sister of the actress Svanhild Johannessen. On November 29, 1915, she married actor and illustrator Thoralf Klouman, whom she worked with at the Trondheim National Theater.

While engaged with the Fahlstrøm Theater, in May 1907, Johannessen co-starred in a guest performance at the Casino Theater in Copenhagen.

Selected roles 1905: Estrid in Lynggaard & Co. by Hjalmar Bergström (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1905: Aulus in Quo vadis by Stanislav Stange (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1906: Maja in Ett köpmanshus i skärgården by Emilie Flygare-Carlén (Grønland People's Theater) 1906: Edmée in La Femme de Claude by Alexandre Dumas fils (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1907: Fuks the Arctic fox in Paa Nordpolen 1907 by Clary Levy (Grønland People's Theater) 1907: Raina in Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw (Stavanger Theater) 1909: Adeline in the operetta The Divorcée by Leo Fall (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1910: Hélène Dumoulin in La Passerelle by Francis de Croisset and Fred de Gresac (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1911: Madam Salvesen in Baldevins Bryllup by Vilhelm Krag (Fahlstrøm Theater) 1914: Sasha in The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy (Trondheim National Theater) 1914: Sperling in Det lykkelige valg by Nils Kjær (Trondheim National Theater) 1915: Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (Trondheim National Theater) 1916: Mabel in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (Trondheim National Theater) 1917: Lola Cornero in Der Weg zur Hölle by Gustav Kadelburg (Central Theater) 1917: Martine in Kong Midas by Gunnar Heiberg (Central Theater) 1924: Cecily in Kinangozi by Prince Wilhelm (Central Theater)