Heidi Ruud Ellingsen (born 26 July 1985) is a Norwegian actress and musical artist.
On the stage, she has among others played the lead roles of Singin' in the Rain , Mary Poppins , Tonje Glimmerdal and Flashdance as well as Solveig in Peer Gynt at Gålå. [1] On the screen, she had a role in the NRK series Hjem in 2012–2013. She also presented the Melodi Grand Prix 2019 show together with Kåre Magnus Bergh. [2]
In a relationship with Mads Ousdal, she bore their first child in 2016. [3]
Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer who aspires to become a professional ballerina (Alex), alongside Michael Nouri playing her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh. It was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and the presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s films including Footloose, Purple Rain, and Top Gun, Simpson and Bruckheimer's most famous production. It was also one of Lyne's first major film releases, building on a television commercials. Alex's elaborate dance sequences were shot using body doubles.
Jennifer Beals is an American actress and a former teen model. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
Irene Cara Escalera known professionally as Irene Cara, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Cara sang and co-wrote the song "Flashdance... What a Feeling", for which she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1984. Cara is also known for playing the role of Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame". Prior to her success with Fame, Cara portrayed the title character Sparkle Williams in the original 1976 musical drama film Sparkle.
The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance with music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Keith Forsey and the song's performer, Irene Cara. Moroder had been asked to score the film, and Cara and Forsey wrote most of the lyrics after they were shown the last scene from it in which the main character dances at an audition for a group of judges. They felt that the dancer's ambition to succeed could act as a metaphor for achieving any dream a person has and wrote lyrics that described what it feels like when music inspires someone to dance. The song wound up being used for the scene they watched as well as during the opening credits as the main character is shown working as a welder.
Sverre Anker Ousdal is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord, Norway.
Elisabeth Singleton Moss is an American actor, producer and director. Dubbed the "Queen of Peak TV" by Vulture, she has received numerous accolades, including three Critics' Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Crista Flanagan is an American actress and comedian, best known for her work as a cast member on the Fox sketch comedy series MADtv from 2005 to 2009, various roles in films made by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and for her recurring role as Lois Sadler on the AMC series Mad Men.
Christine Guldbrandsen is a singer who is best known internationally for being the Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. She has released three albums in Scandinavia: Surfing in the Air, Moments, and Christine. A new album, Colors, was released on 8 April 2011. She sings mainly in Norwegian, Danish and English.
Jon Øigarden is a Norwegian actor, who is well known for his role as journalist Peter Verås in the TV series Mammon, Jarl Varg in Norsemen, and other Norwegian films.
Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen is a Norwegian actress. Her mother is the actress Kjersti Døvigen, and her father was the jazz musician Ole Jacob Hansen, who died when Ulrikke was 27. Educated in England, she has performed both at Det norske teatret and at Nationaltheatret. She has also had roles on television, like the series Hotel Cæsar, and in movies, most notably the comedy 37½. She has a daughter, born in 2004, from a relationship with the actor Mads Ousdal.
Events in the year 1970 in Norway.
Mads Ousdal is a Norwegian actor. He worked as an actor at Den Nationale Scene from 1996 to 1998, at Oslo Nye Teater from 1998 to 1999, and at Nationaltheatret from 2000. He played in the film Detector from 2000 and in Bryllupet from 2000, and has participated in television series. He also played Arne Treholt in the 2010 film Norwegian Ninja. He appeared in the 2013 film A Thousand Times Good Night.
Norwegian Ninja is a 2010 Norwegian action comedy film, directed by Thomas Cappelen Malling. The film, based on a 2006 book, presents real-life espionage-convicted Arne Treholt as the leader of a ninja group saving Norway during the Cold War and stars Mads Ousdal as Treholt.
Edvard Grieg in Jazz Mood by Kjell Karlsen Big Band is an album released in 2008 by Universal Music
Norway participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The Norwegian broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) organised the national final Melodi Grand Prix 2019 in order to select the Norwegian entry for the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ousdal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heidi Elisabeth Ellingsen is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Damallsvenskan club Lingköpings and the Norway women's national team.
Hjem is a Norwegian drama series that aired in 2012 and 2013 on NRK.
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