page_title: Valda Valkyrien
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Valda Valkyrien / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Valda Valkyrien playing a young girl, probably in the 1916 Thanhouser production Silas Marner. If so, the older actor is Frederick Warde in the title role.
context_page_description: Valda Valkyrien was a Danish prima ballerina and a silent film actress.
context_section_description: Born  in Reykjavík, Iceland, Valkyrien was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet. She married Danish nobleman and author, Baron Hrolf von Dewitz and in 1912 began appearing in motion pictures for Nordisk Film productions of Copenhagen. For them, she performed in at least six silent films including one feature-length production. Of these, the film Den Stærkeste (Vanquished) was an American/Danish production released in the United States by the Great Northern Film Company, the Nordisk Film subsidiary in New York City. This led to Valkyrien going to the U.S. where she was signed by the Bayonne, New Jersey, studio owner David Horsley. In 1914, she made her American film debut in the "Baroness Film Series" for Horsley's Centaur Film Company.
caption: Valda Valkyrien playing a young girl, probably in the 1916 Thanhouser production "Silas Marner." If so, the older actor is Frederick Warde.
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