Susse Wold

Susse Wold graduated as an actress in Copenhagen in 1960. After drama school, she quickly became one of the leading actresses at The Royal National Theatre, but many of the other Copenhagen theatres have also benefited from her unique talents. She has played a large number of different parts ‐ ranging from drama to musicals and comedies.

She has played Amanda in Noël Coward's "Private Lives” (in almost 1.000 performances,) both in Stockholm and in Copenhagen. Her credits include "Orlando", a monodrama by Robert Wilson based on the novel by Virginia Woolf and the role of Karen Blixen in the production “To Love your Destiny”, based upon Blixen’s letters from Africa. She has performed “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen all over Denmark.

Susse Wold has appeared in numerous TV‐productions as well as in a large number of films and radio plays. For her worldwide readings of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy‐tales in both Danish and English she has been awarded "The Hans Christian Andersen Medal" as well as “The Hans Christian Andersen Prize” and in 2004 she was honoured with the title “Hans Christian Andersen Ambassador”. President of The Danish AIDS Foundation since 1985, Susse Wold has been honoured with almost every award an actress can receive. The Queen of Denmark has made her a "Knight of First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog".

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