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Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. [1] Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta ( The Asta ).
Asta Nielsen. Actress: Hamlet. Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen.
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- Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Frederiksberg, Denmark
Asta Nielsen (* 11. September 1881 in Kopenhagen; † 25. Mai 1972 in Frederiksberg; vollständiger Name Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen) war eine dänische Schauspielerin. Sie war der erste weibliche Stummfilmstar . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Werk. 1.1 Familie. 1.2 Trivia. 2 Filme. 2.1 Stummfilme. 2.2 Tonfilme. 3 Theater (Auswahl)
Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen.
- September 11, 1881
- May 24, 1972
Asta Nielsen is often considered the 'first international movie star', and was an explosively popular female lead through the 1910s and 20s. Though born in Denmark, she mostly worked in Germany and starred in over 70 films, usually directed by her husband Urban Gad.
Mar 26, 2021 · Asta Nielsen is often described as the first international film star. Known as “Die Asta” and “the Silent Muse,” she was an international superstar of the silent movies. (In World War I, soldiers on both sides of the trenches carried her picture into battle.)
Frequently lauded as “die Duse des Kinos” [the Duse of the cinema], as Poul Elsner noted in Weltrundschau in 1911 (517), the Danish actress Asta Nielsen was the first major star of German silent film.
