Petronella Barker

Petronella Barker

Born: October 29, 1965
in Colchester, Essex, England, UK
Petronella Barker (born 29 October 1965) is a British-born Norwegian actress. She was born in Colchester, England, but grew up in Fredrikstad, Norway. While still studying at the Theatre Academy in Oslo (1985–1988), she had her debut in the Russian-Norwegian co-production Dragens fange (Trees Grow on the Stones Too, 1985). Her breakthrough as a movie actress came with the dystopic Sweetwater (1988), followed by Havet stiger (The Ocean Rises, 1990).

In 1990 she made her stage debut as Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Centralteatret. Since then she has acted in several plays, also for Oslo Nye Teater and The National Theatre.

Meanwhile she has continued doing roles both for TV and film, most prominently the movie Thranes metode (Thrane's Method, 1998), and the TV police series Fox Grønland (2001).

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Title: The Architect
Character: Katharina
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: TV
When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.
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Title: Gutta på skauen
Character: Therapist
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
During the war, resistance work took place all over Norway. Some groups sacrificed everything for the country and were later praised and honored. Other groups sacrificed little or nothing and were forgotten. This is the story of one such group.
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
Title: Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him back into the context of each period and will be helpful in understanding his role in the history of cinema, because he was far from following the trends. He never belonged to any film movement; he is a chameleon that has always preferred natural acting, ‘non-acting’ when method acting was the fashion.
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Gritt
Title: Gritt
Character: Petronella
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: Movie
The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
Title: The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: August 23, 2019
Type: Movie
When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, the kingdom - and perhaps the entire world.
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Title: Recoil
Character: Kris Heltberg
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: TV
A criminal group starts to investigate the police man Tom Karlsen after a drug deal goes wrong.
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Fountain of Youth
Title: Fountain of Youth
Character: Acting Coach
Released: September 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Olav Astrup is a failed entrepreneur in his mid-twenties who has recently been refused contact with his newborn child. Without family or any form of social network, he turns to an eccentric gestalt therapist for guidance, and through their unconventional therapy sessions we get a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and feelings.
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A Serious Game
Title: A Serious Game
Character: Mrs Von Rosen
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
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Underdog
Title: Underdog
Character: Marianne
Released: March 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.
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Haram
Title: Haram
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Omar is a mid-level gangster in Oslo. A family secret is revealed when his "dead" sister isn't dead at all. Omar is ordered to find her. Joining him is his cousin and fellow gangster Khuram, and together they face an unknown Norway where his sister Amina has lead a secret and quite successful life.
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Stress
Title: Stress
Character: Human Resources
Released: September 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A workaholic father is encouraged to spend more time with his daughter. It turns out to be harder than he would think.
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Victoria
Title: Victoria
Character: Victoria's Mother
Released: March 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A tragic love affair between Victoria and Johannes. She's the daughter of a rich estate owner and he's the son of a poor miller. Despite the deep love between them, her father makes Victoria ditch Johannes for the richer Otto.
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Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Title: Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Character: Sidsel
Released: August 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.
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Title: Varg Veum
Character: Sidsel
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.
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The Bothersome Man
Title: The Bothersome Man
Character: Anne Britt
Released: May 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
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Hawaii, Oslo
Title: Hawaii, Oslo
Character: Bobbie
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon at the institution to celebrate his birthday, but who himself has plans to use his leave from prison to run away. And most of all we meet the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone - except himself?
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Title: Uti vår hage
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: TV
Uti vår hage was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show starred the three well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The format of the show was one main storyline that would gradually branch off into several separate minor storylines. Two series of the show have been produced, and the second series carries the title Uti vår hage 2. The show has introduced popular characters like "Lena" from Døden på Oslo S and "Oslolosen". The first season consisted of six episodes and was first broadcast in September and October 2003, while the second season was aired in January – March 2008, with seven ordinary episodes and one special. The first season was the first occasion where the three comedians worked together.
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Music for Weddings and Funerals
Title: Music for Weddings and Funerals
Character: Helen
Released: August 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
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De 7 dødssyndene
Title: De 7 dødssyndene
Released: August 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
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Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom
Title: Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom
Character: Tante Lissi
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Ole Aleksander leker i gangen, og forstyrrer mor som vasker ved å ringe på døren. Han får sin egen nøkkel, men det byr bare på flere forviklinger. Forteller: Anne-Cath. Vestly.
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Thranes metode
Title: Thranes metode
Character: Mol
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
Thrane has always had his own method of dealing with life. He tends to slip away. But when he sees beautiful Mol the same day he moves to a new apartment, he knows he'll be staying, even though she's married. Her husband is away workdays. Starring one of Norways finest actors; Bjørn Sundqvist.
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Gåten Knut Hamsun
Title: Gåten Knut Hamsun
Character: Dagny
Released: December 26, 1996
Type: Movie
What is the answer to the riddle. What made the famous author, nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun to support Hitler? 1945. The famous writer Knut Hamsun looks back to his youth., and compares his life with two of his works "Hunger" and "Mysteries".
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Marlene
Released: July 14, 1995
Type: Movie
A dangerous criminal, named Falken, robs a bank together with a redneck small-criminal. They have to take a hostage and escape in a racing boat. When the hostage jumps overboard they have to stay at a lighthouse to wait for a boat. Here the conflicts starts.
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The Blue Wolves
Title: The Blue Wolves
Character: Rita
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Pelle's father joins an activist group and Pelle has to face up to his father.
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Havet stiger
Title: Havet stiger
Character: Susanne
Released: December 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in the future when much of Central Europe has suffered ecological destruction and only small groups of survivors remain, a lost Norwegian reporter stumbles upon one such group and is quickly drawn into a drama involving a beautiful Christian missionary who's being held prisoner.
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Title: Aksjemordet
Character: Beth
Released: March 6, 1990
Type: TV
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Sweetwater
Title: Sweetwater
Character: Lisa, Allans kone
Released: September 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and Allan has a fling with the prostitute Mary Diamond, he trades Lisa for a gun. Allan leads a resistance group trying to retake their city who would rather fight and die than live in exile.
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Trees Grow on the Stones Too
Title: Trees Grow on the Stones Too
Character: Signy
Released: September 5, 1985
Type: Movie
Vikings attack Kuksja's village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes, chief Torir bestows upon him the name of Einar and takes him in as his son. Back home in Norway the men are received as heros, but new trouble arises when Kuksja falls in love with the beautiful Signy, who is already betroth to the vicious Sigurd.
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Knockback: 2
Title: Knockback: 2
Character: Visitor
Released: February 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
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In Sickness and in Health
Title: In Sickness and in Health
Character: Miss Fisher
Released: May 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's Armchair Cinema.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Company
Released: December 15, 1965
Type: Movie
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.