{{Short description|Danish actress, activist and politician (b. 1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = 24 December 1944 | birth_place = Videbæk, Midtjylland, Denmark | alma_mater = University of Copenhagen | organization = Danish Anti-Apartheid Committee<br>Danish Actors' Association<br>National Theatre Council | political_party = Left Socialists | movement = Red Stocking Movement | relatives = Bente Hansen (sister) }}

'''Litten Hansen''' (born 24 December 1944) is a Danish former film and television actress, activist, politician and member of the Danish Parliament for the Left Socialists.

== Family == Hansen was born 24 December 1944 in Videbæk in Midtjylland, Denmark. Her father was veterinarian Hans Kristian Hansen and her mother was teacher Grethe Vera Hansen ({{Nee|Nornild}}).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Litten Hansen |url=https://www.ft.dk/Medlemmer/Fhvmf/L/Litten-Hansen |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Folketinget |language=da}}</ref> She was the fifth of eight sisters and her parents separated when she was a child.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-03-13 |title=Litten Hansen, skuespiller |url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Litten_Hansen |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon |language=da}}</ref> Her father was an alcoholic.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Der er stadig folk, som skriver til mig, at jeg er den bedste leder, de har haft" |url=https://politiken.dk/navne/art10169830/%C2%BBDer-er-stadig-folk-som-skriver-til-mig-at-jeg-er-den-bedste-leder-de-har-haft%C2%AB |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Politiken - Den levende avis |language=da-DK}}</ref>

Hansen married Knud Hauge in 1992. He died 2000.<ref name=":3" />

== Career == When she was sixteen, Hansen moved to Copenhagen and found a job at a travel agency,<ref name=":0" /> working as a bilingual correspondent.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Lyding |first=Henrik |date=2014-12-24 |title=Teatermama i højt humør |url=https://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE7312321/Teatermama-i-h%C3%B8jt-hum%C3%B8r/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Jyllands-Posten |language=da}}</ref> She then enrolled as a student at the Statens Kursus in 1965.<ref name=":0" /> She also studied at the University of Copenhagen.<ref name=":3" />

Aged 27, Hansen began a career as a stage actress, becoming known for the monologue ''The Mother and the Women in Russia'', before performing in films.<ref name=":0" /> She was a talented tap dancer as a child.<ref name=":0" />

Hansen became active in the Danish Red Stocking Movement with her sister, Bente Hansen (1940-2022),<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> which brought together left-wing feminists who fought for the same rights as men in terms of equal pay.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-25 |title=Rødstrømperne og den nye kvindebevægelse, ca. 1970-1985 |url=https://danmarkshistorien.lex.dk/R%C3%B8dstr%C3%B8mperne_og_den_nye_kvindebev%C3%A6gelse,_ca._1970-1985 |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Danmarkshistorien |language=da}}</ref> She was also offered the position of secretary of the Danish Anti-Apartheid Committee, due to her organising and administration experience,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jensen |first=Jacob Wendt |title=Litten Hansen: "Jeg har altid sagt ja til en udfordring" |url=https://skuespillerforbundet.dk/nyheder/nyheder/artikler/2024/litten-hansen-jeg-har-altid-sagt-ja-til-en-udfordring/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Dansk Skuespillerforbund |language=da}}</ref> and fought in solidarity with black South Africans against the apartheid regime.<ref>{{Cite web |title=En kogebog til Sydafrika |url=https://www.arbejdermuseet.dk/undervisning/historytogo/erindringer-om-radikal-aktivisme/en-kogebog-til-sydafrika/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Arbejdermuseet |language=da-DK}}</ref>

Hansen then became involved in party politics, serving on he executive board of the Left Socialists (VS) from 1968.<ref name=":0" /> Between 1975 and 1977 she served as member in the Folketing (Parliament of Denmark).<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Sleeman |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J8xDWDqOkEC&dq=Litten+Hansen&pg=PA232 |title=The International Who's Who of Women 2002 |date=2001 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-122-3 |pages=232 |language=en}}</ref>

Hansen returned to her career in the arts after her time in Parliament. She was the first female chairman of the Danish Actors' Association trade union and held the position for nine years.<ref name=":2" /> She was a board member and the chair of the Royal Danish Theatre's National Theatre Council from 1995 to 1999.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Blak |first=Poul |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Journalistik_H%C3%A5ndv%C3%A6rk_og_h%C3%A6rv%C3%A6rk/FnKKDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Litten+Hansen&pg=PT146&printsec=frontcover |title=Journalistik. Håndværk og hærværk |date=2019-02-26 |publisher=Lindhardt og Ringhof |isbn=978-87-26-08879-3 |language=da}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=August 2025}}

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===

* 1975: ''Ta' det som en mand, frue'' [<nowiki/>da] * 1986: ''Early Spring'' * 1993: ''Stolen Spring'' * 2003: ''Move Me''

=== Television ===

* 1978: ''Er det løgn hva' jeg si'r?'' * 1987: ''Nana'' [<nowiki/>da] * ''1989: Kirsebærhaven 89'' * 1990-1991: ''Ugeavisen'' [<nowiki/>da]

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links ==

* [https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p140001 ''Litten Hansen''] at AllMovie * [https://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/litten-hansen ''Litten Hansen''] in the Danish Film Database * ''[https://www.danskefilm.dk/skuespiller.php?id=654 Litten Hansen]'' at danskefilm.dk * ''[https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/1009 Litten Hansen]'' at Filmdatabasen * {{IMDb name|id=nm0360967}} * ''[https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=209796 Litten Hansen]'' at Svensk Filmdatabas {{Authority control}}

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