Kjersti Holmen

{{Short description|Norwegian actress (1956–2021)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

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| name = Kjersti Holmen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1956|02|08|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Nøtterøy, Norway

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|9|26|1956|2|8|df=yes}}

| nationality = Norwegian

| occupation = Actress

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radio/stjerneklart/1.3813720|title=Kjersti Holmen|publisher=NRK|author=Per Kristian Johansen|date=22 October 2007|accessdate=10 March 2008|language=no}} She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1980, and was employed at the National Theatre since 1981 – permanently since 1992. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatret.no/wip4/kjersti-holmen-article|title=Kjersti Holmen|publisher=Nationaltheatret|accessdate=10 March 2008|language=no|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928035442/http://www.nationaltheatret.no/wip4/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;id=315;templatefolderid=231|archivedate=28 September 2007}}

Holmen was also a well-known television and film actress, and had her break-through on the big screen in the 1985 film Orions belte.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391722/|title=Kjersti Holmen|publisher=IMDb|author=|date=|accessdate=3 March 2008}} She won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – twice: in 1993 for her role in Telegrafisten, and in 2000 for the two films S.O.S. and Sophie's World.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmweb.no/filmfestivalen2007/multimedia/archive/00115/Amandavinnere_1985__115375a.pdf |title=AMANDA-VINNERE 1985-2006 |publisher=Filmweb.no |accessdate=3 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920231356/http://www.filmweb.no/filmfestivalen2007/multimedia/archive/00115/Amandavinnere_1985__115375a.pdf |archivedate=20 September 2008 }} 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.

Holmen lived with actor Sverre Anker Ousdal, and had two sons from a previous relationship with actor Reidar Sørensen.

Holmen died at Økernhjemmet on 26 September 2021, after a long illness.{{Cite web|last=Kjendlie|first=Espen|date=26 September 2021|title=Kjersti Holmen er død|url=https://www.nrk.no/norge/kjersti-holmen-er-dod-1.15666598|access-date=26 September 2021|website=NRK|language=nb-NO}}