Mette Bull
{{Short description|Norwegian actress (1876–1946)}}
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| birth_name = Mette Marie Wang
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| birth_place = Christiania, Norway
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|01|14|1876|01|31|df=yes}}
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Mette Marie Bull (née Wang; 31 January 1876 – 14 January 1946) was a Norwegian actress.
Early life
Mette Marie Wang was born on 31 January 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo) to merchant Hans Emanuel Wang (1839–1918) and Anne Kathrine Tandberg (1839–1898).{{cite web|title=Mette Marie Wang|url=http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft/person/pf01053257092148|website=Digitalarkivet|access-date=9 August 2024}}{{cite encyclopedia |title=Henrik Bull|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|editor=Helle, Knut|first=Trond|last=Indahl |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Henrik_Bull/utdypning_%E2%80%93_1|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2009}}
Career
She made her acting debut in February 1899 as Susanne in a production of Thérèse Raquin at the Eldorado Theatre in Oslo.{{cite book|last1=Jensson |first1=Liv|title=Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet|date=1981|publisher=Universitetsforl |isbn=8200056228|page=35|url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013042906062?page=35|language=no}}
From 1899, with a few interruptions, Bull was employed at the National Theatre and in 1916, participated in its guest play in Stockholm. Among her leading roles were Pernille in The Fidget and Elina in Ved Rigets Port.Svensk uppslagsbok, Lund 1930{{cite book|title=Scandinavian Studies: Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Volumes 41-42|date=1969|publisher=Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study|page=148}}
Personal life
On 18 December 1897, she married opera singer Jens Elias Berntsen, but the marriage was later dissolved. She later married architect Henrik Bull on 8 May 1905.
Bull died on 14 January 1946 at the age of 69. She was buried at Cemetery of Our Saviour on 26 August 1946.{{cite web|title=Vår Frelsers gravlund |url=https://www.begravdeioslo.no/maler/grav/grave_id/9779|website=Oslo kommune, Gravplassetaten|access-date=9 August 2024|language=no}}
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Category:19th-century Norwegian actresses