Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen
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Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen is a Norwegian
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. Her mother is the actress Kjersti Døvigen
Kjersti Døvigen
Kjersti Døvigen is a Norwegian actress. She is known, among other things, for her role in the popular Norwegian TV-drama Offshore.Døvigen is the mother of the actress Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen, and currently lives in England....

, and her father was the jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician Ole Jacob Hansen, who died when Ulrikke was 27. Educated in England
England
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, she has performed both at Det norske teatret
Det Norske Teatret
Det Norske Teatret is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabløs. It opened in 1913, touring with two plays, Ervingen by Ivar Aasen and Rationelt Fjøsstell by Hulda Garborg...

 ("Wendy Darling" in Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...

) and at 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...

 (e.g. "Kaja Fossli" in Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

's The Master Builder
The Master Builder
The Master Builder is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's most significant and revealing works.-Performance:...

). She has also had roles on television, like the series 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...

, and in movies, most notably the comedy 37½. She has a daughter, born in 2004, from a relationship with the actor Mads Ousdal
Mads Ousdal
Mads Ousdal is a Norwegian actor. He worked as an actor at Den Nationale Scene from 1996 to 1998, at Oslo Nye Teater from 1998 to 1999, and at Nationaltheatret from 2000. He played in the film Detector from 2000 and in Bryllupet from 2000, and has participated in television series.He is the son...

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