Astrid Schwab (née Leikvang, June 18, 1907 – November 2, 1997) was a Norwegian actress and stage director.
[1] Schwab was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the actor Ole Leikvang.
[2] She made her artistic breakthrough in 1934 at the Ole Bull Theater in Bergen.
Her major roles included Inès in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, Rebekka West in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm, the mother in Ibsen's Brand, and Lavinia in Nils Kjær's Det lykkelige valg.
Among her successful stagings were various pieces such as William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros.