Sofie Cappelen

Cappelen began her career as a child actor. She was a member of the Jorunn Kirkenær Children's Ballet, and made several TV appearances as a dancer and actor, including on NRK in the 1989 Christmas series Vertshuset den gyldne hale [no] and in the children's show Midt i Smørøyet [no]. At the age of 11, she made her stage debut at the National Theatre of Norway in Sverre Brandt's Reisen til Julestjernen.^{[citation needed]}

At 13, she played the lead role of Rikke Eriksen in the feature film Aldri mer 13! ("Never Again 13!"), directed by Sirin Eide [no].^[2]

She played Victoria Lunde on the long-running prime-time soap opera Hotel Cæsar, from its first season in 1998, when she was 16.^[3] After four years' absence while living in New York and studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute,^[2] she returned to the role in 2009.^[4][5]

In 2003 she played Inga, the female lead in the Israeli comedy Halleluja, which won at the Haifa International Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

She has published two children's books, Godnattareglen (2011) and Bjørnis og de røde prikkene (2015).^[6][7] She owns the publishing company Eventyrforlaget and practices as a clinical psychologist.^[8]

She is a member of the Cappelen family. Her father is writer Anders Cappelen [no] and her grandfather was the dramatist Peder Wright Cappelen.^[9]

While in New York, she married American designer Brendon Babenzien;^[10] they subsequently divorced. She has a daughter, born in 2011, with photographer Alexander Kayiambakis.^[2][11]