Birgitte Andersen

Birgitte Elisabeth Andersen (née Olsen; 17 December 1791 – 6 February 1875) was a Danish stage actor and ballet dancer.

She was the daughter of Iver Olsen, a controller at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

Dramatiske Skole, and was considered the most notable talent the school produced.

She was the first Dane to play Portia (1828), Ofelia (1813) and Schiller's Jeanne d'Arc (1819).

She married the conductor of the Royal Danish Orchestra, Caspar Heinrich Bernhard Andersen, in 1815.