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Lillebil Ibsen

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Norweigan actress Lillebil Ibsen was born as Sofie Parelius Krohn. She was the daughter of engineer Georg Monrad Krohn and actress Gyda Andersen (Gyda Monrad Krohn). Later on, her mother married Halfdan Christensen and became Managing Director of "Det Nye Teater" in Norway (as Gyda Christensen). Lillebil Ibsen started her career as a young talented dancer and later became one of Norway's most distinguished stage actresses ever, mainly working at the national theatre stage in Norway, called "Nationaltheatret". She appeared in many classic works by Shaw, Moliére, Wilde, Ibsen and Shakespeare. She successfully played the part of Abby Brewster in Joseph Kesselring's comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (Arsenik og gamle kniplinger, Nationaltheatret, 1968). Lillebil Ibsen was above all a leading stage actress in Norway and did very few movie parts. Ironically, her greatest movie achievement is in a style-forming classic Swedish movie called Mannekäng i rött (1958), where she fabulously plays the role of stern fashion Mogul Thyra Lennberg (with perfect Swedish accent). The popular movie is part of the cultivated "Hillman-thriller" series (directed by Arne Mattsson; written by Folke Mellvig), which contains five movies, all with the name of a colour in the title.
- IMDb mini biography by: Cresta <leia.sw@usa.net>

Her appearances in front of the camera remained rarely and she concentrated to the theater.
Lillebil Christensen took part in some movies from 1918 in Germany, Sweden and Norway.
Lillebil Christensen realised her only movie as a director in 1946.
She already began her acting career in 1911 at the theater and it followed a tour which led her to Great Britain, Germany and the USA. Finally she was engaged by Max Reinhardt for whom she worked from 1915 to 1918.
Lillebil Christensen remained active as an actress till to the old age and besides her appearances on stage she also impersonated roles in few more movies in the next decades.

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