Kirsten Rolffes

Kirsten Rolffes was a Danish actress, internationally mostly recognized for her roles in The Kingdom and Matador. She also had a leading role in Denmark's first sitcom, Een stor familie, set in an early 1980s office building. She attended drama school at Frederiksberg Theater and at the National Theater.

Career

Rolffes trained at the Frederiksberg Theatre and the student school of the Royal Danish Theatre . She acted on stage at the RDT between 1950–63 and 1988–94.
Her role in the country's first soap opera Landsbyen helped cement her fame in her native country. She also worked in animation, voicing Ursula in the Danish language version of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Maleficent in the Danish dub of Sleeping Beauty, the Fairy Godmother in the Danish dub of Cinderella and the Evil Queen in the Danish dub of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''.

Honors

For the 1989 film Waltzing Regitze, Rolffes won the 1990 Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She was knighted in 1990 by Queen Margrethe II for her services to the theatrical arts.

Death

After fighting breast cancer and having multiple surgical operations, she conceded to the disease and halted treatment in 1995. She died in 2000 in Copenhagen, survived by her three children, and is interred in Garrison Cemetery.