Aud Egede Nissen

Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen (1911)
Born	(1893-05-30)30 May 1893 Bergen, Norway
Died	15 November 1974(1974-11-15) (aged 81) Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1914-1942
Spouse(s)	Georg Alexander Paul Richter Dag Havrevold
Children	Georg Richter
Parent(s)	Adam Egede-Nissen Georga Wilhelma Ellertsen

Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian actress, appearing in many early 20th-century German films.

Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was a daughter — the eldest of six — of Norwegian postmaster and politician Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen (1868–1953 and his wife Georga («Goggi») Wilhelma Ellertsen (1871–1959); she also had five brothers.

Egede-Nissen was twice married to actors. In 1915 she married the German actor Georg Alexander (1888–1945), by whom she had had her son Georg (1915–1972); in 1924 they divorced, and from 1924 to 1931 she was married to the Austrian actor Paul Richter (1895–1961). Upon their marriage, Richter adopted her nine-year-old son, who later, under the name Georg Richter, became known as an actor and film producer. In 1940, she married for the third time, with Dag Havrevold, a municipal judge. Together they had a son, also named Dag Havrevold, who had been born in 1938. Despite her first marriage to Alexander Richter, in Germany she kept her surname Egede-Nissen, by which she was known in German film. After returning to Norway in the early 1930s, however, she worked under the name of Aud Richter.

Four younger sisters and two younger brothers all became actors as well: Gerd Grieg (1895–1988), Ada Kramm (1899–1981), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962) and Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992). Aud Egede-Nissen died in Oslo, Norway on 15 November 1974 at the age of 81.

Aud made her acting debut on the Norwegian stage in 1911, appearing next in Norwegian director Bjørn Bjørnson's 1913 film Scenens børn. In 1913 she moved to Denmark and started working for Dania Biofilm Kompagni in Copenhagen. In 1914, Bjørn Bjørnson invited her to Berlin, where there were opportunities in the rapidly expanding film industry. This was the beginning of a remarkable career in German cinema. In 1916, she appeared in Otto Rippert's six-part sci-fi serial Homunculus. Also that year, she starred as the character "Christine Daaé" in a German adaptation, directed by Ernst Matray, of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera opposite Swedish actor Nils Olaf Chrisander; no prints of this lost film are known to exist.