Died 1972-05-24.
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Asta Nielsen
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta.
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entertainment · Danish silent film actress (1881–1972) · actor · autobiographer · stage actor · film actor · film director · film producer · also Asta Nielsen, Die Asta, Nielsen
Born 11 September 1881 · Died 24 May 1972 · Q232404
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1972· 1 entry
1970· 1 entry
At the age of 88, Nielsen married the 70-year-old Theede
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1925· 1 entry
Nielsen starred in the German film Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street or The Street of Sorrow), directed by G
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1921· 1 entry
Nielsen, through her own film distribution company of Asta Films, appeared in the Svend Gade and Heinz Schall directed Hamlet
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1915· 1 entry
(before the United States' entry into it) she visited New York City to study American film techniques
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1912· 1 entry
Married the Danish film director Urban Gad following their move together to Germany in 1911 to build their own film studio
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1909· 1 entry
Starring in director Urban Gad's 1910 tragedy Afgrunden ("The Abyss")
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1901· 1 entry
21-year-old Nielsen became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Jesta
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-09-11.
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