Petronella Barker

Petronella Barker has worked as an actor for over thirty years. She is part of the permanent ensemble at the National Theatre in Oslo, and she has been associated with Stockholm City Theatre and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden. She has played major classical roles in both Norwegian and Swedish — Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shakespeare, among others — and she has also done film, TV, radio, and audio books.
A partial list of stage roles: Hedda Gabler in "Hedda Gabler"; Rebecca West in “Rosmersholm”; Solveig, Åse, Woman in Green in “Peer Gynt”; Agnes in “Brand”; Rita in “Little Eyolf”; Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Genia in “The Vast Domain”, Countess Orsina in “Emilia Galotti”. Partial list of film roles: Mol in “Thrane’s Method”; Bobbie-Pop in “Hawaii, Oslo”; Victoria’s mother in “Victoria”; Christine Hoff in “Codename Hunter”; the Queen in “The Ash Lad II”.