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Wenche Foss was born to engineer Christian August Steenfeldt-Foss and Alfhild Røren. She made her stage debut as Ingrid in Vilhelm Dybwad's operetta Taterblod.
She was subsequently part of the ensemble at the Carl Johan Teater from 1936 to 1939, and then became a central figure in Centralteatret. She received acclaim in a number of leading roles. Her breakthrough role was in Carl Erik Soya's To tråder.
Foss was also an accomplished vocalist (mezzo-soprano) who received classical training with M. Hviid and K. B. Børresen. Her performances in Emmerich Kálmán's operetta Die Bajadere, Eduard Künneke's Der Vetter aus Dingsda, Franz Lehár's operettas Der Graf von Luxemburg and The Merry Widow, in which she played the title role.
She pioneered musical parts in such musicals as Kiss Me Kate, Cabaret and Hello, Dolly. Foss also took the occasional role as a voice actress. She provided the voice of Enkefru Stengelføhn-Glad in the 1975 animated feature film Flåklypa Grand Prix, known in English as Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. She voiced the same character in another animated feature, 1998's Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa (Gurin with the Foxtail).Starting in the 1940s, Foss played leading dramatic roles in the ensembles of Nationaltheatret and Oslo Nye Teater. Though her first performance as Rebekka West in Ibsen's Rosmersholm was judged melodramatic, subsequent performances in leading roles in Hedda Gabler, John Gabriel Borkman, Peer Gynt, etc. Her son Fabian Stang is the current mayor of Oslo.On 2 December 2010, Wenche Foss announced that she was seriously ill and did not expect to live past New Year.
She died on 28 March 2011 at Frøen in Oslo.
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