Famous People with Name Eline

Eline Jurg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Eline Jurg: is a Dutch bobsledder who has competed since 1996. Competed in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002.

Eline Flipse            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Eline Flipse: is a film director of documentaries.Flipse studied at the Film Academy in Amsterdam, where she got her degree in 1978. In 1982, she made her first documentary, Het Verschijnsel B, about bibliophily.She directed her first documentary for Scarabee Films in 1995; Broken Silence was about five young Chinese composers. The film won many international awards, including the Grand Prix of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, the Grand Prize Ethos Bacao (Romania), and the Best Discovery Documentary, Festival Du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal. It also was nominated for best feature-length documentary at the Dutch Film Festival.

Eline (Ellen Marie) Heger            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Eline (Ellen Marie) Heger: was a Danish stage actress and ballet dancer. She was the daughter of Thomas Schmidt and Anne Reinsdorf. Her mother washed clothes for a living, and placed her a student in the ballet school of the Royal Danish Theatre for her to survive in 1789. She debuted in 1793 and was employed in 1794. She was to be famed as a tragic heroine on stage. Among her admirers were Knud Lyne Rahbek and Henrich Steffen. Adam Oehlenschläger are considered to have used her as a role modell for the Nordic heroine in his tragedys, and it was as the interpreter of his parts she is most known for in history. She retired after a stroke in 1832.