Aase Winsnes

Biography

Born in 1901, as daughter of vet. Carl Winsnes and wife Ragnhild Öhrn. As a child and youth she danced in several performances in her hometown Oslo, Norway. As a young girl she came to Copenhagen for film education, at that time Danish film was very advanced. In 1919 she won a Scandinavian beauty contest, and for the next two years she starred in four films with famous Olaf Fønss. After filming in Denmark, she taught the latest dances at home in Oslo, and she also spent a period in the United States. She married Doctor Arne Mohn in 1928, and lived outside the limelight until she died on liberation day in 1993, at the age of 91.