Randi Nordby


Randi Nilie Nordby Johnson was a Norwegian actress. She was engaged with the Oslo New Theater for many years. As an actress, she used her maiden name as her stage name.

Career

Randi Nordby started her career very early, and already as a child she was acting in Inga Bjørnson's children's theater. She made her stage debut at age 12 in 1938 in The Women by Clare Boothe Luce at the New Theater in Oslo. She made her adult debut in 1945 in Leonid Leonov's play Invasion at the Studio Theater, and she remained there until it had to close in 1950. She was then at the New Theater until 1963. She later performed as a freelance actress. At the New Theater she appeared in plays such as William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz's The White Horse Inn, and Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs. Later she performed on NRK's Radio Theater and Television Theater.
Nordby made her film debut in Trost i taklampa in 1954. On radio, she became known in the role of Effie in the popular radio play Dickie Dick Dickens.

Family

Nordby was the daughter of the operator Otto A. Nordby and Kirsten Nordby. She was first married to the Danish theater personality and writer Kaare Trolle Bing, and then to the Swedish film producer Eric Johnson. She was the mother of the cultural historian Morten Bing.

Theater roles

Filmography

Television

  • 1970: Selma Brøter as another office lady
  • 1974: Fleksnes in the episode "Beklager, teknisk feil" as the lady next door
  • 1976: Fleksnes in the episode "Radioten" as the angry lady next door
  • 1981: Fleksnes in the episode "Dobbeltgjengeren" as the witness
  • 1981: Helmer & Sigurdson in the episode "Spøkelsesbussen" as a bus passenger
  • 1981: Når eplene modnes as a lady at the boarding house
  • 1988: Fleksnes in the episode "Radioten '88" as the angry lady next door