Name	Jannike Kruse
Height
Naionality	Norwegian
Date of Birth	16-June-1975
Place of Birth	Oslo, Norway
Famous for	Acting

Jannike Kruse is a Norwegian singer, artist and actress at Nationaltheatret and Riksteatret. Daughter of Professor and composer Bjørn Kruse and Professor and author Gro Shetelig Kruse, sister of Anine and Benedikte Kruse known from the vocal group Pitsj, niece to Philip Kruse and grand child of Colonel Erling Kruse.

Kruse started playing the piano at the age of 6, sang in NRK's Girls Choir, danced ballet, and joined Elisabeth Gordings Barne- og Ungdomsteaterskole while at primary school. She joined the music program at Foss videregaende skole in Oslo 1991. She got the main role as Sonja in the play Reisen til Julestjernen at the Nationaltheatret in Oslo 1993, and as so she was the youngest Sonia ever at the Nationaltheatret.

She did this role also in 1994, before starting studies in music pedagogy and singing at Norges Musikkhogskole in 1995. She applied for Artisten in Goteborg (Hogskolan for Teater, Opera och Musikal), and earned a bachelor there in 2001. Before ending her studies at Artisten, she got the role as Annie Oakley in the musical Annie Get Your Gun at Riksteatret, coming up the next season (2002). Meanwhile (in 2001) she played the title role in the newly written Den syngende Frk Detektiv in Fredrikstad, and played a part in the success series Nissene pa laven on TV Norge.