After drama school Susse Wold quickly became one of the leading actresses of The Royal National Theatre, but many of the other Copenhagen theatres have also benefited from her unique talents.
She has played a large number of different parts - ranging from drama to musicals and comedies. Among her leading parts in plays by Shakespeare we find: Ophelia and Gertrude in "Hamlet", Cressida in "Troilus and Cressida", Portia in "The Merchant of Venice”, Viola and Olivia in “Twelfth Night” and Beatrice in “Much Ado about Nothing”. She has been Candida in Bernard Shaw’s "Candida" and Eliza in “Pygmalion”, Lulu in Wedekind’s "Lulu", The Baroness in Strindberg’s “The Bond” and Mrs. Alving in Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts”.
Susse Wold also played Maggie in Arthur Miller’s “After The Fall” and Amelie in Feydeau's farce "Amelie". She played Roxie Hart in "Chicago" and, xxxshe has played Amanda in Noël Coward's "Private Lives” (in almost 1.000 performances,) both in Stockholm and in Copenhagen. Susse Wold has played "Orlando", a monodrama by Robert Wilson based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, and she was The Actress in Tennessee Williams's drama "Sweet Bird of Youth"; she portrayed Isac Dinesen in the production “To Love your Destiny”, based upon her letters from Africa, and she has performed “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen all over Denmark. She was also Irina in P.O. Enquist’s drama “The Sisters”, based on “Three Sisters” by Anton Chjekov.
Susse Wold has appeared in numerous TV-productions as well as in a large number of films and radio plays. Recently she has toured Denmark with her speech “Driving licence to myself”.
She has also toured the United States with the monodrama "Among The Green Shadows". For her worldwide readings of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tales in both Danish and English she has been awarded "The Hans Christian Andersen Medal" as well as “The Hans Christian Andersen Prize”, and in 2004 she was honoured with the title “Hans Christian Andersen Ambassador”.
Susse Wold, who since 1985 has been President of The Danish AIDS Foundation, has been honoured with almost every award an actress can get - and the Queen of Denmark has made her a "Knight of First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog".
