- Born
- Died
- Among the finest Norwegian stage actresses, at her best in classical roles. Remembered for her portrayals of Hedda Gabler and Ella Rentheim, (Ibsen) Viola, (Shakespeare) and as Maria Stuart. (Schiller)
At the age of 17 she entered the silent movie industry, first in Denmark, later in Germany, where she and two of her sisters in 1917 created a film-production company. She appeared in only one Norwegian film; a leading role as Edvarda in "Pan".
During the second world war she married poet Nordahl Grieg, both in exile in London. He was killed under an air-raid over Berlin in 1943. After the war she wrote a biography about her late husband: " Nordahl Grieg- As I knew Him " 1957.
Living in to an old age, her last years were dominated by poor health, and she was almost forgotten by the public. But those who had been seeing her in the golden years of great performances remembered her well. Among them where writer and film director Arne Skouen,he wrote a fine obituary in remembrance of a great actress. Gerd (Egede-Nissen) Grieg died in a nursing home in Oslo at the age of 93.
- IMDb mini biography by: pekka trondsen
- SpousesNordahl Grieg(1940 - December 2, 1943) (his death)Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen (divorced, 2 children)
- One of eleven brothers and sisters, most of whom became actors.
- In 1922 she shot one of her most successful movies in Norway called "Pan" (22).
- When she met the dramatist Nordahl Grieg - they got married in 1940 - she went to Denmark where she made her film debut with "En hofintrige - Das Geheimnis des Fürsten" (1912).
- Gerd Nissen's sister Aud Egede Nissen was also a famous actress.
- The actress Gerd Nissen (also Gerd Egede Nissen) made her theater debut in 1910 at the National Theater in Oslo where she soon became one of the most important Norwegian stage actresses of her generation.
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