Gunlaug Lund

When Gunlaug Lund was 13 years, her father Hans Kristiansen Lund died. (1904) Her mother Eline Torgersen had died two years earlier. (1902) A very difficult situation for all, but especially in a rapidly growing city with a lot of poverty. Fortunately she had five siblings, some of whom were adults and even married. In 1910 at the age of 20, she was a student at Fahlstrøms Theater, later she traveled with several theater companies, including Qværnstrøm and Edv. Drabløs. Together with some actors from Qværnstrøm's company she starred in a film : Anny - a street girl's novel. (1912) After marrying an art painter in 1919, she left the stage. Later she worked with art painting as her husband. At her death in 1952, she had three surviving siblings.