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Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September – 24 May ) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the s and one of the first international movie stars. [1]. Asta Nielsen trained as an actress Hamlet, or Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance, [a] is a German film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet starring and produced by Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen. It was directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall. The film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.
Asta Nielsen was a megastar Asta Nielsen. Actress: Hamlet. Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen.
Danish actress Asta Nielsen She wrote her biography, Den tiende Muse (The Tenth Muse/ The Silent Muse) in (revised in ). Poster for the gender-bending silent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall.
Asta Nielsen's production two decades later, As writer and director of her first 30 films, he played a significant role in her early success and rise to world fame. Asta Nielsen spent her childhood and youth in extreme poverty. Her beloved father, who had been seriously ill her whole life, died when she was fourteen.
Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad Asta Nielsen was a Danish film actress who became the first actress in the world. She should not be confused with the first movie star, which is Florence Lawrence. To become a star, all it took was beauty and regular appearances on screen.
Asta Nielsen (1881-1971) was a Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September – 24 May ) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the s and one of the first international movie stars.
- The only film Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September – 24 May ) was a Danish silent movie actress. She was very popular in the s. She was one of the first international movie stars. Nielsen was in 74 movies. 70 were in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta). She had large dark eyes, a face like a mask and a figure like a boy.