Katja Medbøe

{{Short description|Norwegian actress}}

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| name = Katja Medbøe

| image = Katjamedboe.jpg

| imagesize = 22em

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| birthname = Katja Maria Riosianu Medbøe

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1945|12|3}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1996|11|13|1945|12|3}}

| death_place = Nordmarka, Oslo

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1968–1996

| spouse =

| father = Odd Medbøe

| relatives = Wenche Medbøe

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Katja Maria Riosianu Medbøe (3 December 1945 – c. 13 November 1996) was a Norwegian actress.

She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1968, and acted both at Den Nationale Scene and at the National Theatre. Medbøe was best known for her role in the Hustruer-trilogy (Wives), along with Frøydis Armand and Anne Marie Ottersen.{{cite web | url = http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/970506-kjent-13.html | title = Medbøe funnet død | work = Dagbladet | author = | date = 1997-06-06 | accessdate = 2008-09-12|language=no}} She also released records with poetry readings set to music.{{cite web | url = http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001970038819 | title = Katja Medbøe på plate | work = Dagbladet | author = Karen Kristine Blågestad | date = 1997-07-15 | accessdate = 2008-09-12|language=no}}

In December 1996, Medbøe's sister, Wenche Medbøe, announced that Katja had been missing for three weeks, and made a public appeal for tips. As a result of a head injury she had experienced pain from the stage lighting. On 12 November she had left the hospital and not been seen since.{{cite web | url = http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001960077066 | title = Vær så snill, gi livstegn! | work = Dagbladet | author = Ottar Jakobsen | date = 1996-12-04 | accessdate = 2008-09-12|language=no}} On 3 May 1997, she was found dead in Nordmarka{{spaced ndash}}a forest area north of Oslo. Medbøe had two children. The cause of death was, according to her daughter, Eline Medbøe, suicide.{{cite web |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/--Jeg-folte-meg-forlatt-6617566.html |title=- Jeg følte meg forlatt - Aftenposten |website=www.aftenposten.no |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205348/http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/--Jeg-folte-meg-forlatt-6617566.html |archive-date=2016-03-03}}