Beate Eriksen
Encyclopedia
Beate Marie Eriksen is a Norwegian
actress and director
. Eriksen has acted at several Norwegian theatres and is known for her role on the popular soap opera
Hotel Cæsar
.
She is the granddaughter of Olympic
gymnast
Marius Eriksen
and the daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.
She is also the niece of alpine skier
Stein Eriksen
and is married to one of Norway's most prominent actors, Toralv Maurstad
.
, a fighter ace during World War II
. After the war, Marius Eriksen became Norwegian slalom
champion twice, in 1947 and 1948. His father Marius Eriksen, Sr.
was a gymnast
who won a bronze medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics
. Marius Eriksen, Sr. was married to Birgit "Bitten" Eriksen, a pioneer in the Norwegian women's ski movement and an innovator in knitting
design. Marius and Bitten's younger son Stein Eriksen
was also an accomplished athlete who won a gold medal in giant slalom
and a silver for slalom in the 1952 Winter Olympics
.
in 1985. After graduating she worked for five years at Oslo Nye Teater
and four years at Riksteatret
. Since then she has done freelance work for Nationaltheatret
(the National Theatre), The Norwegian Opera, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and other establishments. She has also acted in movie and television roles, most prominently in the soap opera
Hotel Cæsar
. In 2000 she started working as director
of the series, the first cast member ever to take on that role. She has directed 100 episodes of the show and 24 episodes of the children's television series
Olsenbandens første kupp
. Eriksen teaches drama at the Bærum Waldorf School
and is the head of its theatre department.
on New Year's Eve 1999, on a beach in Måløy, Norway. She was 39 and he was 73. In 2001 Eriksen's application for adopting a child was rejected because Maurstad was considered too old. Norwegian adoption rules, under most circumstances, require the age of the adoptive parents to be between 25 and 45, but Maurstad was 74.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
actress and director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
. Eriksen has acted at several Norwegian theatres and is known for her role on the popular soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Hotel Cæsar
Hotel Cæsar
Hotel Cæsar is a Norwegian soap opera that has been broadcast Monday to Friday on TV 2 since 1998 . It was created by Swedish duo Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander...
.
She is the granddaughter of Olympic
Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that...
gymnast
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
Marius Eriksen
Marius Eriksen
Emil Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born in Barbu, Norway and died in Oslo. He was the father of Marius Eriksen, Jr...
and the daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.
Marius Eriksen, Jr.
Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor.Marius Eriksen was born on 8 September 1922 in Kristiania in Norway. His father, also called Marius Eriksen was a gymnast who competed for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics. His mother was Birgit Eriksen...
She is also the niece of alpine skier
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen is a former alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.-Background:Stein Eriksen was born in Oslo, Norway. His parents were Marius Eriksen and Birgit Heien . Stein's father, Marius Eriksen competed in the 1912 Olympic Games as a gymnast...
and is married to one of Norway's most prominent actors, Toralv Maurstad
Toralv Maurstad
Toralv Maurstad is a prominent actor of Norwegian stage, screen and television. By many regarded as the leading Norwegian actor of his generation, he is the son of the highly regarded actor Alfred Maurstad and actress Tordis Maurstad, and half-brother of actress Mari Maurstad.Maurstad graduated...
.
Family background
Eriksen's father was Marius Eriksen, Jr.Marius Eriksen, Jr.
Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor.Marius Eriksen was born on 8 September 1922 in Kristiania in Norway. His father, also called Marius Eriksen was a gymnast who competed for Norway at the 1912 Summer Olympics. His mother was Birgit Eriksen...
, a fighter ace during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. After the war, Marius Eriksen became Norwegian slalom
Slalom skiing
Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...
champion twice, in 1947 and 1948. His father Marius Eriksen, Sr.
Marius Eriksen
Emil Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born in Barbu, Norway and died in Oslo. He was the father of Marius Eriksen, Jr...
was a gymnast
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
who won a bronze medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics
1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...
. Marius Eriksen, Sr. was married to Birgit "Bitten" Eriksen, a pioneer in the Norwegian women's ski movement and an innovator in knitting
Knitting
Knitting is a method by which thread or yarn may be turned into cloth or other fine crafts. Knitted fabric consists of consecutive rows of loops, called stitches. As each row progresses, a new loop is pulled through an existing loop. The active stitches are held on a needle until another loop can...
design. Marius and Bitten's younger son Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen is a former alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.-Background:Stein Eriksen was born in Oslo, Norway. His parents were Marius Eriksen and Birgit Heien . Stein's father, Marius Eriksen competed in the 1912 Olympic Games as a gymnast...
was also an accomplished athlete who won a gold medal in giant slalom
Giant Slalom skiing
Giant slalom is an alpine skiing discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles spaced at a greater distance to each other than in slalom but less than in super G....
and a silver for slalom in the 1952 Winter Olympics
1952 Winter Olympics
The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, took place in Oslo, Norway, from 14 to 25 February 1952. Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible...
.
Career
Eriksen graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of TheatreNorwegian National Academy of Theatre
The Norwegian National Academy of Theatre was established as a three-year theater-education in 1953, under the name of Statens teaterskole.The school was given collegiate status in 1982...
in 1985. After graduating she worked for five years at Oslo Nye Teater
Oslo Nye Teater
Oslo Nye Teater in Oslo is one of Norway's most visited theatres.The theatre opened in 1959 as a merge between Det Nye Teater and Folketeatret, and consists of four stages; Oslo Nye Hovedscenen, Oslo Nye Centralteatret, Oslo Nye Trikkestallen and Oslo Nye Caféscenen.-External links:*...
and four years at Riksteatret
Riksteatret
Riksteatret is a Norwegian touring theatre. It was established by law in 1948. Its first performance was in Kirkenes in 1949, with Sigurd Christiansen's play En reise i natten. The theatre plays on about 200 different stages throughout the country. Its first theatre director was Fritz von der...
. Since then she has done freelance work for Nationaltheatret
Nationaltheatret
The National Theatre in Oslo is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts.The theatre had its first performance on 1 September 1899 but can trace its origins to Christiania Theatre, which was founded in 1829...
(the National Theatre), The Norwegian Opera, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and other establishments. She has also acted in movie and television roles, most prominently in the soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Hotel Cæsar
Hotel Cæsar
Hotel Cæsar is a Norwegian soap opera that has been broadcast Monday to Friday on TV 2 since 1998 . It was created by Swedish duo Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander...
. In 2000 she started working as director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
of the series, the first cast member ever to take on that role. She has directed 100 episodes of the show and 24 episodes of the children's television series
Children's television series
Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...
Olsenbandens første kupp
Olsenbanden Jr.
-Cast:The following star in each film:*Ola Isaac Høgåsen Mæhlen as Egon*Robert Opsahl as Kjell*Ole Martin Wølner as Benny*Maren Eikli Hiorth as Valborg-Norwegian movies:* Olsenbanden Jr. Går under Vann * Olsenbanden Jr. På Rocker'n...
. Eriksen teaches drama at the Bærum Waldorf School
Bærum Waldorf School
The Bærum Waldorf School is a private school in the Norwegian municipality of Bærum, a suburb west of Oslo.It is located in the borough of Jar, occupying the former agricultural property Grav. Hence, it is unofficially also referred to as Grav or the Grav Waldorf School...
and is the head of its theatre department.
Personal life
Eriksen married actor Toralv MaurstadToralv Maurstad
Toralv Maurstad is a prominent actor of Norwegian stage, screen and television. By many regarded as the leading Norwegian actor of his generation, he is the son of the highly regarded actor Alfred Maurstad and actress Tordis Maurstad, and half-brother of actress Mari Maurstad.Maurstad graduated...
on New Year's Eve 1999, on a beach in Måløy, Norway. She was 39 and he was 73. In 2001 Eriksen's application for adopting a child was rejected because Maurstad was considered too old. Norwegian adoption rules, under most circumstances, require the age of the adoptive parents to be between 25 and 45, but Maurstad was 74.
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External links
- Profile from TV 2TV 2 (Norway)TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....
- Profile from FilmfrontFilmfrontFilmfront is a Norwegian website for films and television series similar to Internet Movie Database. Filmfront also covers various news on movie and celebrity material from both within and outside Norway. It has information on over 8,000 films, 2,000 short films, 115,000 actors and 1,400 TV shows...