{{Short description|Norwegian actress (1914–1994)}} {{Infobox person | name = Aasta Voss | image = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|10|26|mf=y}} | birth_place = Volda Municipality, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|5|29|1914|10|26|mf=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | monuments = | occupation = Actress | years_active = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | relatives = | awards = }}
'''Aasta Voss''' (October 26, 1914 – May 29, 1994) was a Norwegian actress.<ref name="SNL">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Aasta Voss |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Aasta_Voss |access-date=September 26, 2021 |year=2020 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Elster |first1=Kristian |last2=Rønneberg |first2=Anton |title=Teater 1929–1939 |date=1941 |publisher=Aschehoug |location=Oslo |page=284}}</ref><ref>"Dødsfall" (in Norwegian). ''Film og kino'' 4/1994, p. 41</ref>
Voss made her debut in 1935 as Georgine in Oskar Braaten's {{Lang|no|Den store barnedåpen}} (''The Great Baptism'') at the Norwegian Theater, where she was later employed, except for two short stays at the Rogaland Theater and the National Traveling Theater. With a sharply realistic feeling, Voss played a number of female roles in Braaten's plays, Nastja in Maxim Gorky's ''The Lower Depths'', Mrs. Buch in Helge Krog's adaptation of Cora Sandel's {{Lang|no|Kranes konditori}} (''Krane's Café''), and Indiana in Olav Duun's {{Lang|no|Medmenneske}} (''Fellow Man''). She also proved to be a confident stylistic artist, including in Federico García Lorca's ''Yerma'' and in Bertolt Brecht's ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' and ''The Good Person of Szechwan'', and in pantomime style in Eugene O'Neill's ''The Emperor Jones''.<ref name="SNL"/>
She made her film debut as Josefine in ''Bør Børson Jr.'' (1938), followed by the role of Inga in ''Godvakker-Maren'' (1940) as well as several major and minor supporting roles.<ref name="SNL"/>
==Filmography== *1938: ''Bør Børson Jr.'' as Josefine *1940: ''Godvakker-Maren'' as Inga *1940: ''Tørres Snørtevold'' as Betha *1951: ''Kranes konditori'' as Mrs. Buch *1952: ''Trine!'' *1958: ''I slik en natt'' *1960: ''Veien tilbake'' as Mrs. Arbin *1974: ''Ungen'' as Lagreta, Julius's mother
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0903689|name=Aasta Voss}} * [http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=270602 Aasta Voss] at the Swedish Film Database * [https://www.filmfront.no/aktor/46093/aasta-voss Aasta Voss] at Filmfront
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