Frøydis Armand 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. She is the daughter of actor Eilif Armand, and sister of Merete Armand and Gisken Armand

Gisken Armand

Gisken Armand Lillo-Stenberg is a Norwegian actress. She is the daughter of actor Eilif Armand, and sister of Merete Armand and Frøydis Armand, both actresses. She debued on stage at the age of fourteen, at Den Nationale Scene, and has been working at Nationaltheatret since 1988...

, both actresses. She has been working 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...

 (the National Theatre) since 1972, acting in plays such as 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 Little Eyolf

Little Eyolf

Little Eyolf is an 1894 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play was first performed on January 12, 1895 in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.-Plot:...

, and Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

s Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

. Though primarily a stage actress, Armand is probably best known to the general audience as one of the three protagonists in Anja Breien

Anja Breien

Anja Breien is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. She directed 14 films between 1969 and 2005. Her film Arven was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Uten tittel...

's Hustruer–trilogy: Hustruer (1975), Hustruer – ti år etter (1985) and Hustruer III (1996).

Armand has a child from a marriage to actor Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal is an actor from Bergen, Norway. In 2006, Jordal was appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.In 1985, he received the Amanda award as Best Male Actor for...

, and another child from a relationship with actor Kai Remlow.

Select filmography

• Mors hus (1974)
• Hustruer (1975)
• Hustruer - ti år etter (1985)
• Bryllupsfesten (1989)
• Hustruer III (1996)
• "Sejer - se deg ikke tilbake" (TV, 1999)
• Aberdeen (2000)
• Jul på Månetoppen (2002)
• "Berlinerpoplene" (TV, 2007)
• 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...
  
  (TV, 2009-present)

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