Actresses from Oslo

Sigrun Svenningsen (June 23, 1902 – February 24, 1971) was a Norwegian actress.
Svenningsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the traveling salesman Sigurd Svenningsen (1875–1901) and Karen Beate Hoff (1869–?). She had a successful stage career, including as the lead actress at the Chat Noir cabaret in the 1920s. She also performed the lead role in the successful revue Ikke mas, alle får (Don't Worry, Everyone Will Get Some) in 1925 and 1926.Svenningsen appeared in only two silent films. She debuted in 1924 in Harry Ivarson Til sæters, in which she played a major role as Sigrid. In 1927 Svenningsen appeared in Ivarson's Den glade enke i Trangvik.Svenningsen was married to the actor Per Kvist.

Unni Torkildsen (14 August 1901 – 20 June 1968) was a Norwegian actress.

Iselin Alme (born 10 July 1957) is a Norwegian singer and stage actress. Alme was born in Oslo, but moved to Stavanger at an early age. She performed in variety shows before getting the role as Maria in West Side Story at Det Norske Teatret in 1982. Since then, she has acted in several roles, both in musicals and in plays. Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret. Alme has done a little screen work, but had a small role in the TV comedy "Pilen flyttebyrå" in 1987. After she married and had children in the early 1990s, she largely disappeared from the public eye, but has remained active in minor productions. She is the granddaughter of author Johan Borgen.

Anne-Lise Wang (March 2, 1920 – March 20, 1967) was a Norwegian actress.

Veslemøy Haslund (8 April 1939 – 7 November 2005) was a Norwegian actress and stage producer. She was born in Oslo. She made her stage debut at Trøndelag Teater in 1959. She was later assigned to various theatres, including Det Norske Teatret, Fjernsynsteatret, Nationaltheatret and Teater Ibsen. She trained at RADA and made her film debut in 1967, in Det største spillet, and further contributed to various films, including Bare et liv from 1968 depicting important episodes in the life of Fridtjof Nansen, Marikens bryllup from 1972, Vårnatt from 1976, Formyndere from 1979, and Kristin Lavransdatter from 1995.

Trulte Heide Steen (a.k.a. Anne Katrine Heide Steen, born 1943) is a Norwegian actress and singer.

Kjersti Holmen (8 February 1956 – 26 September 2021) was a Norwegian actress.
She was born on Nøtterøy, and later moved to Alnabru, where she grew up with her parents and two sisters. She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1980, and was employed at the National Theatre since 1981 – permanently since 1992. There she had roles such as "Eliza Doolittle" in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and "Blanche" in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.Holmen was also a well-known television and film actress, and had her break-through on the big screen in the 1985 film Orions belte. She won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – twice: in 1993 for her role in Telegrafisten, and in 2000 for the two films S.O.S. and Sophie's World. In television she was known from the Norwegian/Swedish collaboration "Röd snö" – aired the same year as Orions belte came out – as well as several other roles.Holmen lived with actor Sverre Anker Ousdal, and had two sons from a previous relationship with actor Reidar Sørensen.Holmen died at Økernhjemmet on 26 September 2021, after a long illness.

Gudrun Waadeland (3 August 1937 - 8 October 2020) was a Norwegian actress and theatre director.

Merete Skavlan (25 July 1920 – 2 November 2018) was a Norwegian actress, theater instructor and director.
She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of newspaper editor and theatre director Einar Skavlan and music educator Margrethe Bartholdy. She was a granddaughter of literary historian Olaf Skavlan.She was involved in resistance work during World War II, and joined the unofficial "Stanislavskij Group" in 1943. The members of this group founded Studioteatret, and she made her debut at Studioteatret's first performance in 1945, in a translation of Wilder's play The Long Christmas Dinner. She continued to play for Studioteatret until 1950.Her acting career continued at Det Nye Teater, where she played from 1950 to 1952, at Folketeatret from 1952 to 1959, and at Oslo Nye Teater from 1959 to 1967. During the 1960s she also played for Fjernsynsteatret, with roles such as Angustias in an adaptation of García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, and as Missis Smith in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.She started working as a theatre instructor, and has participated on productions at Riksteatret, the National Theatre, Det Norske Teatret and Fjernsynsteatret. Her debut as producer was an adaptation for television of Baroness Emma Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, for Fjernsynsteatret in 1968. Her debut as stage producer was an adaptation of Bill Naughton's play Spring and Port Wine, for Det Norske Teatret in 1969. She also lectured at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre.From 1984 to 1990 she was employed at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as head of Radioteatret. She started the independent theatre group Intimteatret in 1991, together with Gerhard Knoop.Skavlan was also a board member of Dagbladet from 1960 to 1974, and subsequently sat on the supervisory council. She died in November 2018 at the age of 98.

Elisabeth Jeremiassen Gording (2 October 1907 – 29 October 2001) was a Norwegian actress.