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Filmmaker · Norway

Edith Carlmar

Died in 2003

Edith Carlmar, born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen on 15 November 1911 in Kristiania, grew up in the working-class east of the city; she was born out of wedlock and lived with a foster family until the age of six. A dancer from 1926, she was an actress from 1936 to 1952, last at the Det Nye Teater. With her husband Otto Carlmar, she founded a production company in 1949 and became the first woman to direct films in Norway: ten feature films in ten years. She died in Oslo on 17 May 2003.

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