Oda Rostrup

Biography

Born under the bright spring sun of 14 May 1879, Oda Rostrup strode onto Denmark’s nascent silver screen while the medium itself was still learning to walk. Within a single year she slipped from the salty humor of *En Straamand* (1913) into the velvet shadows of *Borgkælderens mysterium* (1914) and the feline allure of *The Tiger Countess* (1914), three early Nordic flashes that still flicker in cinema archives. Six decades later, on 25 October 1955, her curtain fell, leaving the reels to speak for a pioneer who helped teach the camera how to watch a woman command it.