Wenche Foss
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Wenche Foss in 1959
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| Born |
Eva Wenche Steenfeldt-Foss 5 December 1917 Kristiania, Norway |
| Died | 28 March 2011 (aged 93) Oslo, Norway |
| Other names | Eva Wenche Steenfeldt Foss Stang |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1935–2011 |
| Spouse(s) | Alf Scott-Hansen Thomas Stang |
Eva Wenche Steenfeldt Stang (5 December 1917 – 28 March 2011), better known as Wenche Foss (Norwegian: [ˈvɛŋkɛ ˈfɔsː]), was a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television.
Wenche Foss was born to engineer Christian August Steenfeldt-Foss (1878–1960) and Alfhild Røren. Foss grew up with an Atheist mother and a devout Christian father; she inherited both views but has stated: "I could not fall asleep without the prayer".
Her first marriage was to engineer and film producer Alf Scott-Hansen (1903–1961), a son of port director Alf Scott-Hansen, but the marriage was dissolved. In 1953 she married landowner and industrialist Thomas Stang (1897–1982), thus becoming a sister-in-law of Axel Heiberg Stang and daughter-in-law of Ole A. Stang and Emma Heiberg. Her son Fabian Stang was mayor of Oslo from 2007 to 2015.
She made her stage debut in 1935 as Ingrid in Vilhelm Dybwad's operetta Taterblod. She was subsequently part of the ensemble at the Carl Johan Teater from 1936 to 1939, and then became a central figure in Centralteatret. She received acclaim in a number of leading roles. Her breakthrough role was in Carl Erik Soya's To tråder. Later she played numerous leading roles in the ensembles of Nationaltheatret and Oslo Nye Teater, being a regular at Nationaltheatret since 1952.
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