Asta Nielsen
Born: 1881-09-11 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 1972-05-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Asta Nielsen is often considered the 'first international movie star', and was an explosively popular female lead through the 1910s and 20s. Though born in Denmark, she mostly worked in Germany and starred in over 70 films, usually directed by her husband Urban Gad. She was known for her boyish looks and had her breakout in the erotically charged 'Afgrunden' (1910).
Filmography
2023
- Asta Nielsen - Europas erste Filmikone as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema as Self – Interviewee (archive footage)
2016
2003
- Den talende muse - samtaler med Asta Nielsen as (archive footage)
1995
- Die Asta - portræt af Asta Nielsen as Self (archive footage)
1968
- Asta Nielsen as Herself
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1933
- Asta Nielsen: A Great Artist as herself (archive footage)
1932
- Impossible Love as Vera Holgk
1927
- Small Town Sinners as Selma Karchow
- Tragedy of the Street as Auguste - Old Street Walker
- The Vice of Humanity as Tamara
- Agitated Woman as Clarina
- The Dangerous Age as Elsie Lindtner
1926
- The Fallen as Anna Grosser
1925
- Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
- Athleten as Prinzessin Wanda Hoheneck
- The Joyless Street as Maria Lechner (Mizzi)
- Living Buddhas as Tibetanerin
1924
- Battle of the Butterflies
- The Film in the Film as Self
- The House by the Sea as Enricos Ehefrau Teresa
- The Woman in Flames as Josephine
1923
- Earth Spirit as Lulu
- Downfall as Kaja Falk
- I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity as Maria Magdalena
- Navarro the Dancer as Navarro
1922
- Revenge of the Bandits as Brigantenbraut
- Vanina as Vanina
- Fräulein Julie as Julie
1921
- Hamlet as Hamlet
- Wandering Souls as Nastassja Baraschkowa
- Roswolsky's Mistress as Mary Verhag
1920
- Kurfürstendamm as Girl Lissy / Mulatto / Filmstar / Maria
- Mata Hari as Mata Hari
- Steuermann Holk as Isabella Bouflon
- Graf Sylvains Rache as Madelaine
- The Merry-Go-Round as Elena
1919
- Towards the Light as Komtesse Ysabel, grevindens datter
- Intoxication as Henriette Mauclerc
- In the Eyes of the Law as Sonja Waler - Journalist - Her Daughter
- So Ends My Song as Dora Waren
1918
- The Queen of the Stock Exchange as Helene Netzler
- In Turmoil as Margit
- The Eskimo Baby as Eskimo Ivigtut
- Eine Rose der Wildnis as Wanda
1917
- The Orphanage Child as Esther
1916
- Little Angel's Wedding as Jesta Schneider
- The Guinea-Pig as Jesta
- Dora Brandes as Dora Brandes
- Cinderella as Lotte
- The ABC of Love as Lis
- Frontstairs and Backstairs as Sabine Schulze
- Die Ewige Nacht as Marta
- The White Roses as Thilda Wardier
1915
- Die Tochter der Landstrasse as Zigeunerin Zirzi
- The False Asta Nielsen as Herself
- Asta Nielsen als Mannequin
1914
- Zapata's Gang
- Das Feuer as Wanda Petri
- Little Angel as Jesta
- Das Kind ruft as Elana
1913
- The Suffragette as Nelly Panburne
- S1 as Von Hessendorffs Tochter
- Jugend und Tollheit as Jesta Müller
- Die Sünden der Väter
- Death in Seville as Juanita
- The Film Prima Donna as Ruth Breton
1912
- Comedians as Kamma
- Der Totentanz as Bella Burk
- A Romany Spy as Zidra
- The General's Children as Thekla von der Linde
- Poor Jenny as Jenny Schmidt
- When the Mask Falls as Sanna
- Zu Tode Gehetzt as Paula Müller
- Die Macht des Goldes as Creszenz Fitzinger
1911
- The Ballet Dancer as Camille
- Gypsy Blood as Luscha
- The Moth as Olga, Mademoiselle Yvonne
- Gypsy Blood as Jonna
- The Traitress
- The Strange Bird as Miss May Wolton
- The Black Dream as Stella, cirkusdanserinde
- The Great Moment as Annie
1910
- The Abyss as Magda Vang