Liv Uchermann Selmer

{{Short description|Norwegian actress (1893–1983)}}

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| name = Liv Uchermann Selmer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|01|07|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|01|24|1893|01|07|mf=y}}

| death_place = Oslo, Norway

| resting_place= Vestre gravlund{{cite news |title=Bisettelser og begravelser |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/d833063c8e8ece51f86f1438fb4eb281?index=1#28 |access-date=October 5, 2021 |work=Arbeiderbladet |issue=24 |date=January 29, 1983 |page=29}}

| occupation = Actress

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| spouse = Alfred Gjems Selmer

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| father = Karl Uchermann

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Liv Uchermann Selmer (January 7, 1893 – January 24, 1983){{cite web |title=Folketellingen i Norge i 1910 |url=https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01036392093807 |website=Digitalarkivet |publisher=Arkivverket |access-date=October 5, 2021}}{{cite news |title=Dødsfall |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/0a2eeb6a808cc6a14b036873986881f2?index=2#22 |access-date=October 5, 2021 |work=Arbeiderbladet |issue=23 |date=January 28, 1983 |page=23}} was a Norwegian actress.{{cite book |last1=Øisang |first1=Ole |title=Trøndelag teater gjennom 25 år |date=1962 |publisher=F. Bruns Bokhandel i komm |location=Trondheim |page=33}}{{cite book |last1=Elster |first1=Kristian |last2=Rønneberg |first2=Anton |title=Teater 1929–1939 |date=1941 |publisher=Aschehoug |location=Oslo |page=163}}

Selmer was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of Karl Kristian Uchermann (1855–1940) and Bolette Hermana Schnitler (1864–1939).{{cite news |title=Malerdatteren som ikke kunne tegne et eple men som ble skuespillerinne |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/a01d329fc97cb5b847e5f8319eac647d?index=1#8 |access-date=October 6, 2021 |work=Tønsbergs Blad |date=December 23, 1972 |page=10}} She married the actor Alfred Gjems Selmer (1893–1919).

She debuted at the National Theatre in Oslo in 1913 as the wicked fairy Mørkøie in the Norwegian translation of Zachris Topelius's play Sleeping Beauty ({{langx|fi|Prinsessa Ruusunen}}).{{cite news |title='Tornerose' paa Nationaltheatret |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/a03aa4ae8e74cd646be4564e22b8ac06?index=1#0 |access-date=October 7, 2021 |work=Aftenposten |issue=642 |date=December 18, 1913 |page=1}} For the first 15 years of her career, she was engaged with various theaters in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger, and she was employed by the Oslo New Theater from 1929 to 1963. Her roles included Esther in Henri Nathansen's play Indenfor Murene (Inside the Walls), the title role (and later Herlofs-Marte) in Hans Wiers-Jenssen's play Anne Pedersdotter, and Mrs. Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.

Selmer appeared in several Norwegian films and performed in many broadcasts of NRK's Radio Theater. She played Eline in Henrik Ibsen's Lady Inger of Ostrat at the Central Theater in a production in which Agnes Mowinckel played the title role. The production premiered on November 17, 1921. Two years later, Selmer played the green-clad woman in Peer Gynt at the National Theatre in Oslo. In 1928 she played Hjørdis in The Vikings at Helgeland in 44 productions across Norway during the Bjørnevik Theater's Ibsen tour.