44 Notable alumni of
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
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The Oslo National Academy of the Arts is 1066th in the world, 367th in Europe, and 4th in Norway by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
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- stage actorcelebrityactorsinger
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Ingrid Bolsø Berdal is a Norwegian actress. She started her career with the 2005 short film Limbo. Her first leading role was in the Norwegian slasher film Cold Prey, released in October 2006. She has since appeared in over fourteen films, including Chernobyl Diaries, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Hercules. Since 2016, she has played the role of Armistice in the HBO series Westworld.
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Aksel Hennie
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Aksel Hennie is a Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in the films Headhunters (2011), Hercules (2014), and The Martian (2015).
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Jakob Oftebro
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Jakob Hoff Oftebro is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and Kon-Tiki, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
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Renate Reinsve
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- actor
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Renate Reinsve is a Norwegian actress. She made her film debut in Oslo, August 31st (2011), before starring in the critically acclaimed The Worst Person in the World (2021), with her performance earning her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Pål Sverre Hagen
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- stage actortelevision actortelevision produceractor
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Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen is a Norwegian stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for playing Thor Heyerdahl in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film Kon-Tiki.
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Agnes Kittelsen
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Agnes Elisabet Hilden Kittelsen is a Norwegian actress.
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Kåre Conradi
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- actorsingertelevision actor
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Kåre Conradi is a Norwegian actor.
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Pia Tjelta
- Enrolled in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts
- Studied in 2000-2006
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- actor
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Pia Merete Tjelta is a Norwegian actress.
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Anneke von der Lippe
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Anneke von der Lippe is a Norwegian actress. She made history as the first Norwegian – and Nordic - actress to win an International Emmy Award.
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Frank Kjosås
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- television actoractor
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Frank Kjosås is a Norwegian actor of theatre and film, known for The Half Brother, and his role as Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid in The Heavy Water War.
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Lise Fjeldstad
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- actor
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Lise Barbra Skappel Fjeldstad is a Norwegian actress, and daughter of the conductor and violinist Øivin Fjeldstad. A graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1963, she started working at Det Norske Teatret (the Norwegian Theater) immediately afterward. In 1975 she was hired by the National Theatre, where she has acted in roles such as "Blanche Dubois" in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and "Agnes" in Henrik Ibsens Brand. She won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – for best actress for her role in Dødsdansen in 1991. She has two children with her partner, actor Per Sunderland. She is married to Gordon Braddy.
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Iren Reppen
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- stage actorfilm actoractorsinger
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Iren Reppen is a Norwegian actress.
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Jakob Weidemann
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- painter
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Jakob Weidemann was a Norwegian artist. Jakob Weidemann is regarded as one of Norway's more important artists of post-war Modernism. Weidemann's work Storfuglen letter (1959) was selected as one of the twelve most important Norwegian artworks by Morgenbladet.
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Katja Medbøe
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- 1945-1996 (aged 51)
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- screenwriteractor
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Katja Maria Riosianu Medbøe was a Norwegian actress.
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen
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- designergoldsmith
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen, was a Norwegian goldsmith, enamel artist, and designer. She is one of the most well-known Norwegians in the Scandinavian Design movement, and has been referred to as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design". Through her work she contributed to internationalisation, innovation and scientific research. She was one of the few Norwegian practitioners who shaped the Scandinavian design style in the post-war era and is the periods’ most renowned Norwegian practitioner. Kittelsen's aim was to make beautiful and user-friendly everyday objects available for everyone. She had a vast and varied production. With her enamelled objects and jewellery she has been a pioneer in design in the post-war era and a model for the next generation of designers. Today her pieces constitute design icons and are sought-after collectables.
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Svein Nyhus
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- children's writerwriterillustrator
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Svein Nyhus is a Norwegian illustrator and writer of children's books.
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Silya Nymoen
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- singer-songwritermusicianactortelevision presenter
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Silya Nymoen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter based in Oslo. She is the lead singer and songwriter in the band Silya & The Sailors.
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Knut Steen
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- sculptor
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Knut Steen was a Norwegian sculptor. Steen lived in Sandefjord for most of his life and dedicated works such as the Whaler's Monument to the city. Many of his sculptures may also be seen at Midtåsen Sculpture Park, a park dedicated to Steen at the former villa of Anders Jahre in Sandefjord.
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Astrid Folstad
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- actorstage actor
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Astrid Borgny Folstad was a Norwegian actress.
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Eldbjørg Løwer
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- ceramicistpoliticianbusinessperson
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Eldbjørg Løwer is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
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Finn Graff
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- graphic artistillustratorcaricaturist
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Finn Graff is a Norwegian illustrator.
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Knut Rumohr
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- paintergraphic artistprintmaker
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Knut Lindstrøm Rumohr was a Norwegian painter and printmaker.
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Egil Nyhus
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- illustrator
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Egil Nyhus is a Norwegian illustrator.
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Torleif S. Knaphus
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- sculptor
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Torleif Severin Knaphus was a Norwegian-born artist and sculptor in Utah, primarily known for sculptures for and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Dag Hol
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- painter
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Dag Hol is a Norwegian figurative painter and graphic artist. He is educated at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (1980-1984) and has been a student of Gunnar Dietrichson and Odd Nerdrum. Earlier he studied Nordic, French, German and Sanskrit language and literature at the University of Oslo. He has since he was 18–19 years old practised yoga and Acem-meditation regularly and this has influenced his artistic and philosophical point of view. He made his debut as an artist with his solo exhibition in 1983 in Oslo.
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Kristofer Leirdal
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- sculptor
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Kristofer Leirdal was a Norwegian sculptor and art educator. He was especially noted for his sculptural contributions to the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral.
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Ahmed Umar
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- actorvisual artist
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Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese-Norwegian visual artist and LGBT activist who campaigns for gay visibility. He grew up in a conservative family in Sudan, before fleeing to Norway where Umar's artistic work mixes Sudanese (e.g., the Black Pharaohs of the ancient Kingdom of Kush) and western influences by blending stories as a foundation for the works. His experience of coming out as one of the first openly gay Sudanese was detailed in the film The Art of Sin.
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Ida Lorentzen
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- painter
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Ida Margrethe Lorentzen is an American born, Norwegian artist known for her paintings of interiors of a melancholic nature.
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Aase Texmon Rygh
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- sculptor
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Aase Texmon Rygh, was a Norwegian sculptor working in the modernist style.
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Arne E. Holm
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- painterpostage stamp designergraphic artistarchitectdesigner
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Arne Ellerhusen Holm was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and architect.
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Kirsten Sørlie
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- actor
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Kirsten Sørlie was a Norwegian actress and stage director.
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Joseph Grimeland
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- 1916-2002 (aged 86)
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- sculptor
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Joseph Grimeland was a Norwegian sculptor.
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Jorgen Dreyer
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- sculptor
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Jørgen Christian Dreyer was a Norwegian-born American sculptor. He emigrated to the United States in 1903 and worked as a professor of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1907 to 1909. In his career Dreyer created a number of monumental sculptures, some of which are located in Kansas City, Missouri. His major works include: Life Drift; The Goddess of Dawn; Sphinxes (pair); Biology and Chemistry (a pair of figures); Lionesses (pair); The Message (a bust of Archibald Butt); Bust of Sir Carl Busch; Mercury, god of commerce; and Bust of Major General Sterling Price.
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Karen Holtsmark
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- painter
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Karen Kristine Holtsmark was a Norwegian painter.
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Siri Dokken
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- cartoonistprofessorillustrator
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Siri Dokken is a Norwegian illustrator.
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Tone Thiis Schjetne
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- sculptor
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Tone Thiis Schjetne was a Norwegian sculptor. She is represented in the National Gallery of Norway and other galleries, contributed several works to the Nidaros Cathedral, and made decorations to Vadsø Church. Among her best known public works is the bronze sculpture Go'dagen in Oslo, Trondheim and Stavanger.
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Peter Esdaile
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- paintergraphic artist
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Peter Esdaile is a Norwegian painter, sculptor, and printmaker born in Canada. Esdaile was educated in the period 1966–1973 at the National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, and at the National Academy of Fine Arts where he received his MFA. He studied under Chrix Dahl, Åge Storstein, Ludvig Eikaas, Halvdan Ljøsne, and Arne Malmedal.
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Hugo Wathne
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- sculptor
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Hugo Wathne was a Norwegian sculptor and art instructor.
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Halvdan Ljøsne
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- painterart historianprofessor
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Halvdan Ljøsne was a Norwegian painter.
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Thore Heramb
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- 1916-2014 (aged 98)
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- painterillustrator
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Thore Heramb was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. His art was inspired by impressionism and by cubism. His artistic style is commonly described as colourist and frequently featured abstracted landscapes.
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Ada Madssen
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- sculptor
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Ada Madssen was a Norwegian sculptor.
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Unni-Lise Jonsmoen
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- painterwriterillustrator
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Unni-Lise Jonsmoen is a Norwegian illustrator and children's writer.
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Hans Finne-Grønn
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- 1903-2001 (aged 98)
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- paintersculptordrawer
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Hans Fredrik Leganger Finne-Grønn was a Norwegian painter.
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Klaus Gjøstein
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- 1905-1992 (aged 87)
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- painter
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Klaus Gjøstein was a Norwegian painter.
