Anna Guðmundína Guðrún Borg (née Borgþórsdóttir; 30 July 1903 – 14 April 1963) was a Danish-Icelandic actress of stage and screen and autobiographer.
The daughter of the Icelandic actress Stefanía Guðmundsdóttir [is], she grew up in a household where theatre was part of her daily life and began acting at age nine.
[6] She made her on-stage debut as Tóta lila in Eyvind of the Hills [is] at the age of nine and became a participant in her mother's play tours to the West Coast of the United States and Canada from 1920 to 1921.
[1][3] On 22 March 1929,[1] Borg made her major debut as the lead role of Maria in Finnish-Swedish poet Runar Schildt's Galgemanden, a two-person one-act play.
[7] Five years later, she had the role of the doctor-parent Martha Ellekær in the feature film Affæren Birte and was Irene in De kloge og vi gale.
[8] Borg went on do character acting, being cast in the role of Klytemnestra in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies in 1946, portrayed Regina Hubbard Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes a year later and Laura in Strindberg's The Father in 1950.
[5] Borg and 11 other people were killed in an aeroplane accident on a hilltop in Nesøya, Akershus, Norway, west of Oslo while en route to Reykjavík on the morning of 14 April 1963.