---
name: "Emmy Schønfeld"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emmy-schnfeld"
fi1m_id: "emmy-schnfeld"
imdb_id: "nm0778210"
tmdb_id: 1501721
wikidata_id: "Q4977736"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 April 1873"
died: "27 May 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:58:18.902745+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emmy Schønfeld

## Identity

Emmy Schønfeld

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emmy-schnfeld
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emmy-schnfeld
- **IMDb ID:** nm0778210
- **TMDB ID:** 1501721
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4977736
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4977736, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778210/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1501721

Actor. Born 13 April 1873 in Denmark. Died 27 May 1956.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 April 1873, Denmark
- **Died:** 27 May 1956
- **Also known as:** Emmy Schönfeld
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4977736, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778210/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1501721

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Häxan*](https://film.one/film/haxan.md) (82)

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## Biography

Emmy Schønfeld was a Danish actress. She was born Emmy Gandrup on 13 April 1873 in Aarhus and died on 27 May 1956. She began her stage career in 1896 and appeared in numerous Danish productions, specialising in comic and farce roles.

Schønfeld is credited in Benjamin Christensen's *Häxan* (1922) as Karna's Assistant, also listed as Marie the Seamstress. Her other film appearances include *Smil og Tåre* (1923) as Rosalie Krass, *Stamherren* (1925) as Gamle Ane, *Den ny husassistent* (1933) as Kristiane, *De bør forelske Dem* (1935), and *Barnet* (1940) as Gamle fru Olsen. She was married to the actor Reinar Schønfeld.

*Sources: imdb.com, dfi.dk, danskefilm.dk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Häxan* (1922), Fi1m 82, as Karna's Assistant — [page](https://film.one/film/haxan.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Child* (1940), Actor
- *De bør forelske Dem* (1935), Actor
- *Den Ny Husassistent* (1933), Actor
- *The Mannequins* (1929), as Aunty Malin, the fortune teller
- *At the North Sea* (1927), Actor
- *Häxan* (1922), as Karna's Assistant — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/haxan.md)

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