Liv Uchermann Selmer (January 7, 1893 – January 24, 1983) was a Norwegian actress.
Selmer was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of Karl Kristian Uchermann (1855–1940) and Bolette Hermana Schnitler (1864–1939). She married the actor Alfred Gjems Selmer (1893–1919).
She debuted at the National Theatre in Oslo in 1913 as the wicked fairy Mørkøie in the Norwegian translation of Zachris Topelius's play Sleeping Beauty (). For the first 15 years of her career, she was engaged with various theaters in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger, and she was employed by the Oslo New Theater from 1929 to 1963. Her roles included Esther in Henri Nathansen's play Indenfor Murene (Inside the Walls), the title role (and later Herlofs-Marte) in Hans Wiers-Jenssen's play Anne Pedersdotter, and Mrs. Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.
Selmer appeared in several Norwegian films and performed in many broadcasts of NRK's Radio Theater. She played Eline in Henrik Ibsen's Lady Inger of Ostrat at the Central Theater in a production in which Agnes Mowinckel played the title role. The production premiered on November 17, 1921. Two years later, Selmer played the green-clad woman in Peer Gynt at the National Theatre in Oslo. In 1928 she played Hjørdis in The Vikings at Helgeland in 44 productions across Norway during the Bjørnevik Theater's Ibsen tour.
Filmography 1938: Ungen as Lagreta, Julius's mother 1940: Tante Pose as the provost's wife 1940: Tørres Snørtevold as Mrs. Thorsen 1942: Den farlige leken as the cleaning woman 1942: Jeg drepte! as the head nurse 1943: Sangen til livet as Mrs. Kamp, Eli Braa's mother 1943: Vigdis as Minda Bjørkli 1944: Kommer du, Elsa? as Miss Enger 1948: Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten as the housekeeper 1951: Dei svarte hestane as Inger 1952: Trine! as Aunt Andrea 1959: 5 loddrett as a maid 1959: Støv på hjernen 1961: Sønner av Norge 1964: Klokker i måneskinn as a chambermaid 1965: Hjelp – vi får leilighet!
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External links
Liv Uchermann Selmer at Filmfront