Borghild Johannessen


Borghild Johannessen was a Norwegian actress, singer, and dancer.

Family

Borghild Johannessen was born in Bergen, Norway, the daughter of the actors Bernt Johan Johannessen and Laura Elvig, and the sister of the actress Svanhild Johannessen. On November 29, 1915, she married the actor Thoralf Klouman, whom she worked with at the Trondheim National Theater. They were the parents of the pianist and composer Carsten Klouman and the actress Wenche Klouman.

Career

Early in her career, Borghild Johannessen was associated with the Grønland People's Theater and the Fahlstrøm Theater in Kristiania. Both of these theaters were run by Johann and Alma Fahlstrøm. After the Fahlstrøm Theater closed in 1911, she worked at the Trondheim National Theater. In January 1917, she returned to Kristiania, where she worked at the Central Theater.
While engaged with the Fahlstrøm Theater, in May 1907, she co-starred in a guest performance at the Casino Theater in Copenhagen. The same year she participated in the theater's guest performance in Stavanger. In 1909, she performed in Leo Fall's opera The Divorcée at the Fahlstrøm Theater.
Johannessen also appeared in many non-theater performances, including solo dancing in connection with a performance by her brother-in-law Hauk Aabel at the Sandefjord Spa in 1905.

Selected roles