{{Short description|Norwegian dancer and actress (1899–1989)}} {{Use dmy dates | date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Lillebil Ibsen | image = Lillebil Krohn married Lillebil Ibsen 2 NFB-09091.jpg | image_size = | caption = Lillebil Krohn 1916, by Gustav Borgen | birth_name = Sofie Parelius Monrad Krohn | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|08|06|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kristiania | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|08|22|1899|08|06|df=yes}} | death_place = Oslo | other_names = Lillebil Christensen | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1911–1969 | spouse = Tancred Ibsen (1919–1978) | mother = Gyda Christensen | partner = | website = | awards = Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav }}
'''Lillebil Ibsen''' (born '''Sofie Parelius Monrad Krohn''', 6 August 1899 – 22 August 1989)<ref>[https://nbl.snl.no/Lillebil_Ibsen Lillebil Ibsen]. ''Norsk biografisk leksikon''. Retrieved 8 Oct 2024.</ref> was a Norwegian dancer and actress.
==Personal life== Lillebil was born in Kristiania, as the daughter of engineer Georg Monrad Krohn and actress Gyda Martha Kristine Andersen (later Gyda Christensen). She married pilot and film director Tancred Ibsen on 25 August 1919.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lillebil Ibsen |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Trine |last=Næss |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Lillebil_Ibsen/utdypning |language=Norwegian |accessdate=5 December 2009 }}</ref> Their son Tancred Ibsen Jr., born in 1921, was a Norwegian diplomat.
==Career== Lillebil Ibsen took ballet lessons at an early age with her mother, who was a professional choreographer and ballet instructor. She made her début as a dancer at Nationaltheatret in 1911, in the ballet pantomime ''Prinsessen på erten'', an adaptation of the story ''The Princess and the Pea'' by Hans Christian Andersen. She then studied ballet with Hans Beck in Copenhagen, and later with Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine. She started performing in Berlin under supervision of Max Reinhardt when she was sixteen years old, and played leading roles in Reinhardt's pantomimes ''Die Schäferin'', ''Lillebils Hochzeitsreise'', ''Prima Ballerina'', ''Sumurun'' and ''Die grüne Flöte''.<ref name=nbl/> She made her stage début as actress at Nationaltheatret in Kristiania in 1915, in the children's comedy ''Den uskikkelige lille prinsesse''.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lillebil Ibsen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Lillebil_Ibsen |language=Norwegian | accessdate=5 December 2009 }}</ref>
Ibsen's first film role was in ''Sången om den eldröda blomman'', in 1919. She made her début as a revue artist at Chat Noir in 1924.<ref name=nbl/> She worked at Det Nye Teater from 1929 to 1956, where she played classical comedy roles as well as a series of Ibsen characters, such as "Nora", "Mrs Alving" and "Gina Ekdal". From 1956 to 1969 Lillebil performed at Nationaltheatret, where she played both dramatic and comic roles.<ref name=nt49-74>{{cite book |title=Nationaltheatret 1949-1974 |first=Anton |last=Rønneberg |author-link=Anton Rønneberg |pages=101–102|year=1974 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Oslo |language=Norwegian |isbn=82-05-06254-4}}</ref> She also played for the television theatre Fjernsynsteatret.<ref name=nbl/> One of Lillebil's well known film roles was a stand-out performance in Arne Mattsson's cult mystery thriller ''Mannequin in Red'' (1958); where Ibsen played a notable supporting role as the fashion house mogul Thyra Lennberg.<ref>[https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2009/12/mannekang-i-rott-1958.html The Bloody Pit of Horror: Mannekäng i rött (1958)]</ref>
Ibsen authored a autobiography titled ''Det begynte med dansen''.<ref name=snl/> She was decorated Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1969.<ref name=nbl/> She died in Oslo in 1989.<ref name=nbl/>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1918|| ''Europe, General Delivery'' || || |- |1919|| ''Sången om den eldröda blomman'' || Eli || |- |1920|| ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' || Eva Sorel || |- |1921|| ''Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker'' || Eva Sorel || |- |1922|| ''Pan'' || Eva || |- |1931|| ''Lika inför lagen'' || Sonja || |- |1934|| ''Op med hodet!'' || Lill, Ballettpike || |- |1955|| ''Arthurs forbrytelse'' || Diana || |- |1958|| ''Mannekäng i rött'' (''Mannequin in Red'') || Thyra Lennberg || |- |1968|| ''Prinsessa på villovägar'' || Aunt Augusta || |- |1979|| ''Somewhere, Sometime'' || || (final film role) |}
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