Kjersti Døvigen (27 June 1943 – 26 January 2021) was a Norwegian actress. She was known, among other things, for her role in the popular Norwegian TV-drama Offshore.

At the age of seven, Kjersti started dancing, her career began as a ballet dancer. She worked in this area at the Norwegian Opera for eight years before her breakthrough in 1967 in Claudine's role in CanCan.

Kjersti Døvigen

Døvigen, the widow of financier Halvor Astrup, was the mother of the actress Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen and lived in Bath, England.

Kjersti Døvigen

Selected filmography

1963: Elskere as Guro

1969: Psychedelica Blues as Lissy

1970: Douglas as Kari

1974: The Last Fleksnes as Unni

1976: Lasse & Geir as Kjersti

1976: Bør Børson II as Ida Olsen

1980: Life and Death as Jennifer

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1943 births

2021 deaths

Norwegian film actresses

Norwegian television actresses

20th-century Norwegian actresses

21st-century Norwegian actresses

Kjersti Døvigen