Brita Bigum

Brita Bigum (a.k.a. Britta Bigum^[2] and Brita Bigum Grønn,^[1] January 15, 1921 – October 12, 1980) was a Norwegian actress.^[3]

Career

Bigum made her stage debut as a child in the play Per og Kari reiser til månen at the National Theatre in Oslo.^[4] She later danced at Chat Noir and the Edderkoppen Theater.^[4]^[5]^[6] Bigum made her film debut in 1940 in Tancred Ibsen's Tørres Snørtevold and appeared in a total of eight films between 1940 and 1957. She appeared as Hannchen (Norwegian: Hanna) in Eduard Künneke's operetta The Cousin from Nowhere (Norwegian title: Fetteren fra Batavia) at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet during the 1951/52 season,^[4]^[7] and she was also active at the New Theater in 1953.^[8]

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^ "Brita Bigum". Den nye tid. No. 17. January 21, 1943. p. 2. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
^ Den Norske opera og den Norske ballett: slik Gunnar Brunvoll opplevde det. Bergen: Eide forlag. 1999. p. 41. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
^ "Det Nye Theater. Henry Purcell's Opera 'Dido og Aeneas'". Arbeiderbladet. No. 43. February 20, 1953. p. 4. Retrieved August 17, 2022.