Kjetil Bang-Hansen | |
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Born |
Oslo, Norway |
May 16, 1940
Nationality | Norwegian |
Alma mater | |
Spouse(s) | Inger Johanne-Rütter (1967-) |
Parent(s) |
Odd Bang-Hansen Elise Aas |
Relatives |
Pål Bang-Hansen (brother) |
Kjetil Bang-Hansen (born 16 May 1940) is a Norwegian actor, dancer, stage producer and theatre director.
Bang-Hansen was born in Oslo as the son of writer Odd Bang-Hansen and physician Elise Aas. He married dancer and choreographer Inger Johanne Rütter in 1967. He is brother of film producer and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen.
After examen artium Bang-Hansen studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre from 1959 to 1962, and later at the University of Oslo and at theatres in Stockholm and London. He made his debut as actor at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's Fjernsynsteatret in 1961. He was employed as actor and dancer at the revue stage Edderkoppen from 1962 to 1963, and at Oslo Nye Teater from 1963 to 1966. His debut as instructor was an adaptation of William Gibson's Two For The Seesaw at Trøndelag Teater in 1967. Later the same year he also staged adaptations of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (Kjøkkenheisen) and Eugène Ionesco's La Cantatrice chauve (Den skallete sangerinnen). Among his other productions are Ibsen's Ghosts (Gengangere), Brand and An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Cecilie Løveid's Maria Q.