Asta Nielsen Net Worth
Asta Nielsen Net Worth is
$850,000
Asta Nielsen Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Asta Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972), was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta). Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences. Due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were heavily censored in the United States and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theatricality to a more subtle naturalistic style. Nielsen founded her own film studio in Berlin during the 1920s, but returned to Denmark in 1937 after the rise of Nazism in Germany. A private figure in her later years, Nielsen became a collage artist and an author. | Date Of Birth | September 11, 1881, Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | May 24, 1972, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Place Of Birth | Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Profession | Actress, Producer, Director |
| Spouse | Christian Theede (m. 1970–1972), Ferdinand Wingårdh (m. 1919–1923), Urban Gad (m. 1912–1918) |
| Children | Jesta Nielsen |
| Awards | German Film Award - Honorary Award |
| Star Sign | Virgo |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | After some more successes in Germany she signed a lucrative contract which guaranteed her eight movies a year and a free hand for the completion. |
| 2 | In the beginning she played at different stages but the success didn't arise yet. This changed immediately when she met director Urban Gad (1879-1947) and cherished intentions in shooting movies. In 1910 their first common movie "Abgründe" came into being, which achieved an unexpected international success. Asta Nielsen got married with director Urban Gad in 1912 and shot together with him about 30 movies. |
| 3 | Daughter of an often unemployed blacksmith and a washerwoman. Nielsen's family moved several times during her childhood while her father sought employment. |
| 4 | In 1901, twenty-year-old Nielsen became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter, Jesta. Nielsen never revealed the identity of the father, and chose to raise her child alone with the help of her mother and older sister. |
| 5 | In spite of her succes in Abgründe the film offers from Denmark kept rare. Therefore she decided to find her luck in the arising German film business and landed a bull's eye. In no time at all she became the first film star in film history at all. |
| 6 | The World War II concluded her theater career in Germany and she went back to Denmark again. But also after the war she didn't return to the stage. |
| 7 | She got first contacts to the theater during her school time, where she joined in the singing of the royal theater of Copenhagen thanks to her beautiful voice. |
| 8 | At the age of eighteen, Nielsen was accepted into the acting school of the Royal Danish Theatre. During her time there, she studied closely with the Royal Danish Actor, Peter Jerndorff. |
| 9 | After the war she returned to Germany where she was able to continue her career smooth. |
| 10 | At the age of 14 she already left school. When her father died in the same year, she should graduate from sales education in order to be able to contribute some money to the living of her family. But inside Asta Nielsen had already matured her wish to become an actress. She got an audition and as a result a free drama education. |
| 11 | Nielsen began a relationship in the late 1960s with Danish art collector, Christian Theede, whom she had met through dealings of her own artwork. In 1970, at the age of 88-years-old, Nielsen married the 77-year-old Theede. Nielsen and Theede's outward joy for marrying at an elderly age was celebrated in the world press. |
| 12 | Because of her previous successes she became established as an international greatness long ago and she participated in producing her next movies. She shot "Das Liebes-ABC" (1916), "Dora Brandes" (1916) and "Der erste Patient" (1916). The remaining years of World War I she spent thereafter in Denmark. |
| 13 | In the twenties over and over again Asta Nielsen was pushed out by younger colleagues, her acting attracted less attention than the beautiful faces of new stars. The scripts she get offered were subsequently more and more worse and Asta Nielsen decided to go back to the theater where she was able to achieve triumphs. Only one time she returned to the screen with the movie "Unmögliche Liebe" (32), her first and last sound film. |
| 14 | The couple Nielsen/Gad separated in 1915 and with it their cooperation came to an end too. |
| 15 | During the Second World War she provided money for Allan O. Hagedorff, a young Dane living in Germany, to assist Jews. Using money provided by Nielsen, Hagedorff sent so many food parcels to the Theresienstadt concentration camp that he was warned by the Gestapo. Among others, Victor Klemperer, the diarist and philologist, was offered money by Hagedorff. |
| 16 | The actress Asta Nielsen came from a poor family. |
| 17 | Nielsen fell in love with the Russian actor Gregori Chmara whom she met through their mutual friend Georg Brandes. They began a long-term common-law marriage that lasted from 1923 until the late 1930s. |
| 18 | She and her family lived for several years in Malmö, Sweden where her father worked in a corn millery and then a factory. After he lost those jobs, they returned to live in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen. |
| 19 | Nielsen had four long-term relationships and was divorced twice. In 1912, she married the Danish film director Urban Gad following their move together to Germany in 1911 to build their own film studio. They were divorced by 1919 when Nielsen married the Swedish shipbuilder Freddy Windgardh. That marriage was short-lived and ended in divorce in the mid-1920s. |
| 20 | With her documentation "Asta Nielsen" (68) she said goodbye to her audience. Four years later she died as a result of an accident. |
| 21 | Asta Nielsen had a daughter, Jesta, born in 1901 outside of marriage. Jesta committed suicide in 1964 after the death of her husband. |
| 22 | She was so famous that the name Asta became a trademark for cigarettes and perfumes. Her beauty was praised by Guillaume Apollinaire too. |
| 23 | Married five times. |
| 24 | Offered her own studio in Germany by Goebbels when Nazi's took power - refused. |
| 25 | Other sources state 1881 as her year of birth |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crown of Thorns | 1932 | Vera Holgk | |
| Das gefährliche Alter | 1927 | Elsie seine Frau | |
| Small Town Sinners | 1927 | Selma Karchow | |
| Gehetzte Frauen | 1927 | Clarina, Tänzerin | |
| Dirnentragödie | 1927 | Auguste - Old Street Walker | |
| Laster der Menschheit | 1927 | Singer - Das Experiment | |
| The Sunken | 1926 | Anna Grosser | |
| The Joyless Street | 1925 | Maria Lechner | |
| Living Buddhas | 1925 | Tibetanerin | |
| Hedda Gabler | 1925 | Hedda Gabler, Ehefrau von Tesman | |
| Athleten | 1925 | Prinzessin Wanda Hoheneck | |
| Die Frau im Feuer | 1924 | Josefine | |
| Die Schmetterlingsschlacht | 1924 | Rosi Hergentheim | |
| Das Haus am Meer | 1924 | Enricos Ehefrau Teresa | |
| Crown of Thorns | 1923 | Maria Magdalena | |
| Downfall | 1923 | Kaja Falk | |
| Erdgeist | 1923 | Lulu | |
| Die Tänzerin Navarro | 1922 | Carmencita Navarro | |
| Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit | 1922 | Vanina | |
| Brigantenrache | 1922 | Brigantenbraut | |
| Fräulein Julie | 1922 | Julie | |
| Die Spionin | 1921 | Mata Hari | |
| Irrende Seelen | 1921 | Nastassja Baraschkowa | |
| Die Geliebte Roswolskys | 1921 | Mary Verhag | |
| Hamlet | 1921 | Hamlet | |
| Die Spielerin | 1920 | ||
| Mata Hari | 1920 | Mata Hari | |
| Steuermann Holk | 1920 | Lulu | |
| Kurfürstendamm | 1920 | Girl Lissy / Mulattin / Filmstar / ... | |
| Graf Sylvains Rache | 1920 | Madelaine | |
| The Merry-Go-Round | 1920 | Elena | |
| Nach dem Gesetz | 1919 | Sonja Waler - Journalist - Her Daughter | |
| Rausch | 1919 | Henriette Mauclerc | |
| Mod lyset | 1919 | Komtesse Ysabel, grevindens datter | |
| Das Ende vom Liede | 1919 | Dora Waren | |
| Die Börsenkönigin | 1918 | Helene Netzler | |
| Das Eskimobaby | 1918 | Eskimo Ivigtut | |
| Die Rose der Wildnis | 1918 | Wanda | |
| Im Lebenswirbel | 1918 | Margit | |
| Die Brüder | 1917 | ||
| Das Weisenhauskind | 1917 | Esther | |
| Cinderella | 1916/I | Lotte | |
| Die weißen Rosen | 1916 | Thilda Wardier | |
| Das Liebes-ABC | 1916 | Lis | |
| Dora Brandes | 1916 | Dora Brandes | |
| Engeleins Hochzeit | 1916 | Jesta | |
| Die ewige Nacht | 1916 | Marta | |
| Die falsche Asta Nielsen | 1915 | Die Barbierstochter Bolette | |
| Die Tochter der Landstraße | 1915 | Zigeunerin Zirzi | |
| Vordertreppe - Hintertreppe | 1915 | Sabine Schulze | |
| Standrechtlich erschossen | 1914 | ||
| Das Feuer | 1914 | Wanda Petri | |
| Zapatas Bande | 1914 | Short | |
| The Call of the Child | 1914 | Elena | |
| Engelein | 1914 | Short | Jesta |
| Die Filmprimadonna | 1913 | Short | Ruth Breton |
| S1 | 1913 | Short | Von Hessendorffs Tochter |
| Die Suffragette | 1913 | Nelly Panburne | |
| The Toreador's Oath | 1913 | Short | Juanita |
| Regina | 1913 | Hanna Meyer | |
| Lady Madcap's Way | 1913 | Short | Jesta Müller |
| Behind Comedy's Mask | 1913 | Short | Kamma |
| Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland | 1912 | Short | Zidra |
| Wenn die Maske fällt | 1912 | Sanna | |
| The General's Children | 1912 | Thekla von der Linde | |
| The Dance to Death | 1912 | Short | Bella Burk |
| Zu Tode gehetzt | 1912 | Paula Müller | |
| Poor Jenny | 1912 | Short | Jenny Schmidt |
| The Might of Gold | 1912 | Creszenz Fitzinger | |
| The Traitress | 1911 | Yvonne | |
| Der fremde Vogel | 1911 | Miss May | |
| Balletdanserinden | 1911 | Camille Flavier - Actress | |
| Gypsy Blood | 1911 | Short | Luscha |
| The Great Moment | 1911 | Annie | |
| Den sorte drøm | 1911 | Stella | |
| Nachtfalter | 1911 | Short | Olga, Mademoiselle Yvonne |
| Gipsy Blood | 1911 | Short | Jonna |
| The Woman Always Pays | 1910 | Short | Magda Vang |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downfall | 1923 | producer | |
| Fräulein Julie | 1922 | producer | |
| Hamlet | 1921 | producer |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asta Nielsen | 1968 | Documentary short |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Die Asta | 1971 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Asta Nielsen | 1968 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Der Film im Film | 1925 | Documentary | Herself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen | 2014 | Documentary | Herself |
| Die Geschichte des erotischen Films | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Den talende muse - samtaler med Asta Nielsen | 2003 | Documentary | Herself |
| Digtere, divaer og dogmebrødre | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Die Asta - portræt af Asta Nielsen | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 1995 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Maria Lechner / Magda Vang |
| It Only Happened Once | 1958 | Herself, Asta Nielsen | |
| Wonderful Times | 1950 | Documentary | Herself |
| Rund um die Liebe | 1929 |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention | Berlin International Film Festival | For her significant achievements concerning the development of film art. | |
| 1968 | C.I.D.A.L.C. Award | Berlin International Film Festival | Asta Nielsen (1968) | |
| 1963 | Honorary Award | German Film Awards | For her continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years. |
Known for movies
The Joyless Street (1925)
as Maria Lechner
The Woman Always Pays (1910)
as Magda Vang
Hamlet (1921)
as Hamlet
Den sorte drøm (1911)
as Stella