Randi Nordby

Randi Nilie Nordby Johnson (May 15, 1926 – March 28, 1991) was a Norwegian actress. She was engaged with the Oslo New Theater for many years. As an actress, she used her maiden name as her stage name.

Career Randi Nordby started her career very early, and already as a child she was acting in Inga Bjørnson's children's theater. She made her stage debut at age 12 in 1938 in The Women (Norwegian title: Kvinner) by Clare Boothe Luce at the New Theater in Oslo. She made her adult debut in 1945 in Leonid Leonov's play Invasion at the Studio Theater, and she remained there until it had to close in 1950. She was then at the New Theater until 1963. She later performed as a freelance actress. At the New Theater she appeared in plays such as William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz's The White Horse Inn (Norwegian title: Sommer i Tyrol), and Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs. Later she performed on NRK's Radio Theater and Television Theater.

Nordby made her film debut in Trost i taklampa in 1954. and then to the Swedish film producer Eric Johnson 1975: Skraphandlerne as Aunt Mette 1976: Kjære Maren as a lady

Television

1970: Selma Brøter (Television Theater) as another office lady 1974: Fleksnes in the episode "Beklager, teknisk feil" as the lady next door 1976: Fleksnes in the episode "Radioten" as the angry lady next door 1981: Fleksnes in the episode "Dobbeltgjengeren" as the witness 1981: Helmer & Sigurdson in the episode "Spøkelsesbussen" as a bus passenger 1981: Når eplene modnes (Television Theater) as a lady at the boarding house 1988: Fleksnes in the episode "Radioten '88" as the angry lady next door