Mette Marie Astrup Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mette Marie Astrup Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mette Marie Astrup (25 April 1760 - 16 February 1834) was a Danish

actress, one of the best known of her time in Denmark. She enjoyed a

career totaling fifty years at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

Astrup was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the child of Sven

Andersen Astrup, a former servant who was employed as porter at the

Royal Danish Theatre upon its foundation in 1748. She began her

performing career in 1772, and by 1773 was employed at the Theatre

itself, which was always short of female actors in the 18th century.

She became a student of the theatre's primadonna Lisbeth Cathrine

Amalie Rose (1738â€"1793), and was widely regarded as her successor;

she played romantic parts, dramatic tragedy and, in her later years,

gentle mothers. From 1777 until its dissolution in 1779 she was a

member of Det Dramatiske Selskab, a students' club for young actors,

which ceased after a short but very active period of cultural

development, and whilst there was a student of Fredrik Schwarz. She

was described as dignified and with a great feeling for her costume,

which was designed by the actors themselves. However, when the "new

style" of acting was introduced onto the stage in 1808, her way of

acting then became unfashionable.She played Leonore in Den

Stundenlöse (1773), Else Skolemesters in Barselstuen (1778), both

plays by Ludvig Holberg as well as Lady Macbeth in the play Macbeth

(1817) by William Shakespeare.
Mette Marie Astrup Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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