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Asta Nielsen was born on 11 September 1881 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her silent films, which she starred in and directed. She was one of the first international film stars and was known as "The Silent Muse".
Nielsen began her career in the theater, performing in Copenhagen and Berlin. She made her film debut in 1910 with the Danish film Afgrunden (The Abyss). She quickly became a star in Europe, appearing in over 50 films between 1910 and 1918. She was the first international film star and was known as "The Silent Muse".
Nielsen was also a successful producer and director. She founded her own production company, Asta Nielsen Film, in 1919 and produced and directed several of her own films. She was one of the first female directors in the world.
Nielsen retired from the film industry in the late 1920s and died in 1972. She was inducted into the Danish Film Hall of Fame in 2003.
Asta Nielsen's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She earned her wealth through her successful career in the film industry.
Popular As |
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (The Silent Muse, Die Asta) |
Occupation |
actress,producer,director |
Age |
91 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
Born |
11 September, 1881 |
Birthday |
11 September |
Birthplace |
Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Date of death |
24 May, 1972 |
Died Place |
Frederiksberg, Denmark |
Nationality |
Denmark |
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Asta Nielsen Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Asta Nielsen's Husband?
Her husband is Anders Christian Theede (21 January 1970 - 25 May 1972) ( her death), Ferdinand Wingårdh (31 December 1919 - 1923) ( divorced), Urban Gad (11 May 1912 - 1918) ( divorced)
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Anders Christian Theede (21 January 1970 - 25 May 1972) ( her death), Ferdinand Wingårdh (31 December 1919 - 1923) ( divorced), Urban Gad (11 May 1912 - 1918) ( divorced) |
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Asta Nielsen Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Asta Nielsen worth at the age of 91 years old? Asta Nielsen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from Denmark. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Nielsen began a relationship in the late 1960s with Danish art collector, Christian Theede, whom she had met through dealings of her own artwork. In 1970, at the age of 88-years-old, Nielsen married the 77-year-old Theede. Nielsen and Theede's outward joy for marrying at an elderly age was celebrated in the world press.
Nielsen fell in love with the Russian actor Gregori Chmara whom she met through their mutual friend Georg Brandes. They began a long-term common-law marriage that lasted from 1923 until the late 1930s.
Because of her previous successes she became established as an international greatness long ago and she participated in producing her next movies. She shot "Das Liebes-ABC" (1916), "Dora Brandes" (1916) and "Der erste Patient" (1916). The remaining years of World War I she spent thereafter in Denmark.
The couple Nielsen/Gad separated in 1915 and with it their cooperation came to an end too.
Nielsen had four long-term relationships and was divorced twice. In 1912, she married the Danish film director Urban Gad following their move together to Germany in 1911 to build their own film studio. They were divorced by 1919 when Nielsen married the Swedish shipbuilder Freddy Windgardh. That marriage was short-lived and ended in divorce in the mid-1920s.
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. Her stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teater's production of Boito's opera "Mephistopheles. " She studied at the Royal Theatre School of Copenhagen and embarked upon a stage career in her late teens. She toured Scandinavia and became one of the highest-paid and most popular stage actresses of her time and place. In 1909, director Urban Gad suggested that the silent screen would allow her to transcend her Danish language barrier, and she agreed appear in his film 'Afgrunden (1910)'. The film was successful and Nielsen was encouraged to continue in this new art form. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a film studio which would eventually become Europe's largest--the Universum Film Union A. -G. (or Ufa). Nielsen and her director, Gad, whom she had married, went to Germany and spent the next quarter century there. She became one of the true superstars of the silent screen, a tragic heroine whose photograph during the First World War accompanied German and also British and French troops into battle. Among her notable films after the war was a version of "Hamlet, " which was not so much a Shakespearean film as it was an exploration of a then-current theory that the real Hamlet had been, in fact, a woman. Nielsen played the title role. She continued to play a wide variety of roles in Germany and occasionally in Denmark and Norway, never losing the respect and popularity she had maintained almost from the beginning of her career. She abandoned her film work just as sound was taking over the industry. Aside from one or two brief forays in talkies, her acting was thereafter confined to the stage.
Asta Nielsen had a daughter, Jesta, born in 1901 outside of marriage. Jesta committed suicide in 1964 after the death of her husband.
In the beginning she played at different stages but the success didn't arise yet. This changed immediately when she met director Urban Gad (1879-1947) and cherished intentions in shooting movies. In 1910 their first common movie "Abgründe" came into being, which achieved an unexpected international success. Asta Nielsen got married with director Urban Gad in 1912 and shot together with him about 30 movies.