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Norwegian actress and politician
Ellen Horn
Minister of Culture
In office
17 March 2000 – 19 October 2001
Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg
Preceded byÅslaug Haga
Succeeded byValgerd Svarstad Haugland
Personal details
BornEllen Stoesen
(1951-02-01) 1 February 1951 (age 73)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityNorwegian
SpouseJon Christensen
ChildrenKjersti Horn
Emilie Stoesen Christensen
OccupationActor, Minister and Theater director

Ellen Horn (born Ellen Stoesen, 1 February 1951) is a Norwegian actress, theatre director, and politician for the Labour Party.

Career

Horn started as a puppet actor at Oslo Nye Teater (1969–70), and was educated at the Teaterhøyskolen (1972–75), and since the late 1980s has been one of the most central and prominent figures in Norwegian theater. As an actress, she has distinguished herself by her versatility; as director at the Nationaltheatret (1992–2000), she managed to turn a money-losing company with a highly turbulent business culture into a thriving theater both financially and artistically. Horn has been an associate of Norsk Rikskringkasting and Nationaltheatret, and is currently director of Riksteatret.

Horn further developed and consolidated the Ibsen Festival, and led the Nationaltheatret through its 100th anniversary in 1999. On that occasion, she was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Olav. During Stoltenberg's First Cabinet she was Minister of Culture (2000–2001).

After leaving the cabinet, Horn returned to the Nationaltheatret as an actor, and in recent years she has toured with the theater productions Undset and Jeg kunne gråte blod (about Marie and Knut Hamsun). Both as theater director and as minister, she was met by doubts and questions whether she was qualified enough to undertake such large tasks, but she put most of the skepticism to shame with her hard and focused work and her pragmatic attitude, and by growing with the new roles.

Private life

Horn was married (1988) to the Norwegian Jazz drummer Jon Christensen (1943–2020), and she has two children: theater director Kjersti Horn (b. 1977, from her marriage (1973–81) to scenographer Per Kristian Horn, b. 1941), and singer and actress Emilie Stoesen Christensen (b. 1986) from her current marriage.

Honors

  • Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1999

Selected acting roles

Theater

Film

  • 1976: Oss as Vera
  • 1985: Adjø solidaritet (Farewell Illusions) as Margrete

References

Notes
  1. ^ Rossiné "Ellen Horn Biography – Norsk biografisk leksikon". 29 June 2022.
  2. "Ellen Horn teatersjef for Riksteatret for en ny åremålsperiode – Kulturdepartementet Regjeringen.no". 6 March 2009. (in Norwegian)
  3. "Say and Play - ECM Jon Balke Batagraf ECMrecords.com". Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. ECM Records
  4. "Trøndelag Teater Official Website". (in Norwegian)
  5. "Adjø solidaritet – Filmweb.no". (in Norwegian)

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Cultural offices
Preceded byKjetil Bang-Hansen Director of the National Theatre
(with Ole-Jørgen Nilsen and Sverre Rødahl)
1988–1990 		Succeeded byStein Winge
Preceded byStein Winge Director of the National Theatre
1992–2000 		Succeeded byEirik Stubø
Preceded byBente Erichsen Director of the Riksteatret
2005–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded byÅslaug Haga Norwegian Minister of Culture
2000–2001 		Succeeded byValgerd Svarstad Haugland
Ministers of Culture and Equality of Norway


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