Mathilde Nielsen | |
Birth Date: | July 15, 1853 |
Birth Place: | Bergen, Norway |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Occupation: | Actress |
Relatives: | Elly Kjølstad, Snefrid Aukland |
Mathilde Regine Nielsen (July 15, 1853 – ?) was a Norwegian actress.[1]
Mathilde Nielsen was born in Bergen,[2] the daughter of the journeyman Niels Christian Nielsen and Marte Elisabeth Olsen (Larsen). She was the sister of the actress Elly Kjølstad[3] and the aunt of the actress Snefrid Aukland (a.k.a. Erika Warnecke). She married Gunnar Olsen Alvorn in 1891.[4]
Mathilde Nielsen was a pupil of the Danish theater director Frederik Adolph Cetti in her hometown of Bergen. She followed Cetti in the 1870–1871 season in Bergen and Trondheim.[3] In the 1880s, Nielsen was a member of the theater association of the East Kristiania Labor Union (no|Kristiania østre Arbeidersamfund).[5]