Kjersti Holmen

Kjersti Holmen (8 February 1956 – 26 September 2021) was a Norwegian actress.

She was born on Nøtterøy, and later moved to Alnabru, where she grew up with her parents and two sisters.

[1] There she had roles such as "Eliza Doolittle" in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and "Blanche" in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

[4] In television she was known from the Norwegian/Swedish collaboration "Röd snö" – aired the same year as Orions belte came out – as well as several other roles.

[1] Holmen died at Økernhjemmet on 26 September 2021, after a long illness.