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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an African-American opera singer mother from Alabama. His parents, working in Europe at the time of his birth, settled in Manhattan by the time he was 6, and that's where he grew up.
Coming from a theatrical background, it was, perhaps, inevitable that young Giancarlo would appear on stage sooner or later, and he did, at age 8, appearing on Broadway as a slave child in "Maggie Flynn" in 1966.
More Broadway work followed through the 1960s and early '70s, followed by some small roles in movies. TV work followed in the 1980s, with increasingly significant parts in a string of high-profile series until he became well-established as a character player both on TV and in a number of movies.
He came very much to the public's attention playing Agent Mike Giardello in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) in 1998 and since then has rarely been off our screens.- Actor
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Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors. The success in his home country includes Flickering Lights (2000), En kort en lang (2001) and the Emmy-winning police series Unit One (2000).
His success has taken him abroad where he has played alongside Gérard Depardieu in I Am Dina (2002) as well as in the Spanish comedy Torremolinos 73 (2003) and the American blockbuster King Arthur (2004).
He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the critically acclaimed NBC series Hannibal (2013), from 2013 to 2015, with great success.- Actor
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Pilou Asbæk graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2008. In the same year, he played the leading role in Niels Arden Oplev's drama Worlds Apart.
In 2010 he had his breakthrough as the inmate Rune in Lindholm & Noer's prison drama R for which he won the prize for Best actor at The Danish Critic Association Award, Bodil, and at the Danish Film Academy Awards, Robert. Furthermore, he was pointed as Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2011 for this performance; an honor that is given to ten European Actors. Also, for three years he starred in the BAFTA winning and critically acclaimed television series Borgen as Kasper Juul; spin doctor for the Danish Prime Minister. The following years Pilou played the leading role in Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking and A War. A War was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2015. In 2014, Pilou shot Luc-Besson's LUCY starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, and this year he played Pontius Pilate in Timur Bekmambetov's BEN-HUR. In 2017 he again played opposite Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sander's Ghost in the Shell as Batou. Pilou has starred as Euron Greyjoy in the 6th and 7th seasons of HBO's acclaimed series Game of Thrones.- Writer
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Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to
emerge from Denmark since
Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years
earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and
attracted international attention with his very first feature,
The Element of Crime (1984).
A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with
stylistic nods to Dreyer,
Andrei Tarkovsky and
Orson Welles, its combination of
yellow-tinted monochrome cinematography (pierced by shafts of blue
light) and doom-haunted atmosphere made it an unforgettable visual
experience. His subsequent features
Epidemic (1987) and
Europa (1991) have been equally ambitious
both thematically and visually, though his international fame is most
likely to be based on The Kingdom (1994), a
TV soap opera blending hospital drama, ghost story and
Twin Peaks (1990)-style surrealism
that was so successful in Denmark that it was released internationally
as a 280-minute theatrical feature.- Actress
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Maria Sten is an actress, writer and filmmaker from Copenhagen, Denmark. Of Danish, Swedish, Congolese ethnicity, Maria started her career as a professional dancer and model. She also holds the title of Miss Denmark 2008.
Maria was a fellow in The Black List / ATX TV Festival Writing Program 2017 and The Black List / Women In Film Episodic Labs 2017. Maria also stars as the lead in the 4th season of Syfy's Channel Zero.
She debuted her first short - which she wrote, directed, produced and starred in - at Uptown Short Film Festival and
LA Shorts Fest 2016.
Maria's passion as a storyteller lies with "stories that matter"; facilitating inclusion and female empowerment, and lending a voice to people who don't have one.
Maria is represented by Grandview and CAA.- Actress
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Deepika Padukone, born 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is an
Indian model and actress. She is the daughter of former badminton
champion Prakash Padukone. Her mother tongue is Konkani. Deepika has a
younger sister named Anisha.
She has been modeling appearances in print and television advertising
campaigns for Liril, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many
prestigious modeling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the
Jewels of India, an annual jewelry exhibition. She hit the
international scene when Maybelline made her their new international
cover-girl face.
At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, for Indian models and
designers, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year. Shortly
after wards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher
Swimsuit Calendar for 2006, thus cementing her reputation as a
supermodel. She also bagged two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in
2006 - female Model of the year (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face
of the year.- Writer
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Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his
parents, where he lived out his teen years. New York quickly became
his city and soon began to shape Nicolas' future.
At seventeen, Nicolas moved
back to his native Copenhagen to complete his high-school
Education. After graduation, he swiftly flew back to New York,
where he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. However, this
education was cut short when Nicolas threw a desk at a classroom wall
and was expelled from the Academy. Consequently, he applied to the
Danish Film School and was readily accepted. This education too was to
be short-lived, though, as one month prior to the start of the semester, Nicolas
dropped out.
A short film Nicolas had written, directed, and starred in
was aired on an obscure cable TV channel and lead to the offer of a
life-time. Nicolas was spotted and offered 3.2 million kroners to turn
the short into a feature. At only twenty-four, Nicolas had written and directed
the extremely violent and uncompromising Pusher (1996),
which became a cult phenomenon and won Nicolas instant international
critical acclaim. The success of his debut spurred him to push the
boundaries of his creative filmmaking further, which resulted in the
close-to-the-edge and intricately gritty Bleeder (1999). Highly
stylized and focused on introverted reactions to outward situations,
this film was a marking point for the shaping of Nicolas's future
career. The movie was selected for the 1999 Venice International Film
Festival as well as winning the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize in Sarajevo.
Nicolas's fourth feature, the much-anticipated Fear X (2003) was also
his first foray into English-language movies. Starring the
award-winning actor John Turturro, "Fear X" made its world premiere
at the Sundance Film festival. However, Fear X divided critics and it flopped, which made Nicolas Winding Refn broke and in debt.
Having to provide for his family and paying his debt, he returned to Denmark to revisit "Pusher." Refn was reluctant to revisit his past success but decided that he could both make commercially viable and artistically pleasing films. In just two years he managed to write, direct and produce the
two sequels. Pusher II (2004) and Pusher III (2005) sealed the box and
success of the internationally renowned "Pusher" trilogy. In 2005, the Toronto
Film Festival held a "Pusher" retrospective showing all three features
cementing its worldwide phenomenon.
In 2006 Nicolas embarked on a second English-language (and first digital) feature called
Valhalla Rising (2009), which was inspired by a story his mother read to him at the age of
five about a father and son who embark on a trip to the moon. Not
recalling the ending of this story has been a long time fascination of
Nicolas's with the unknown. During the pre-production on "Valhalla
Rising," his long time collaborator and friend, Rupert Preston, urged
him into accepting an offer to write and direct Bronson (2008), an
ultra-violent, surreal, and escapist film following the real-life
landmarks and self-entrapment of Charles Bronson, Britain's most notorious criminal.
Before its cinematic release, "Bronson" was making waves inside and
outside the film industry. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival selected the
blistering film for its World Cinema Dramatic Competition and it soon
became the talk of the festival. With such a prestigious premiere,
"Bronson" went on to be selected for other major international film
festivals and reap strong box-office rewards. But, even with such a
buzz surrounding the film, no one could predict how the British press
would bite at "Bronson's" bit. The content was close to the knuckle, the
subject matter controversial, but Nicolas's take on this was even more
inspired leading him to be labeled by the British media as the next
great European auteur.
With such critical acclaim, Nicolas's reputation
as a producer, writer and director was solidly reaffirmed.
Nicolas and his wife Liv Corfixen were the subjects of an acclaimed
documentary, Gambler (2006), which premiered at the Rotterdam International
Film Festival in 2005. In addition, Nicolas already received two
lifetime-achievement awards (one from the Taipei International Film
festival in 2006 and the second from the Valencia International Film
Festival in 2007), and it was the winner of the Emerging Master Award from
the Philadelphia International Film Festival 2005.- Actor
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Kim Bodnia is a Danish actor, who was born in Copenhagen in 1965.
Kim Bodnia is educated as an actor at the Copenhagen Theatre school (1988-1991). After an amazing theatre career as an actor and creator of new Danish theatre in Copenhagen, he had his breakthrough in Nightwatch (1994) for which he received The Robert Award for best supporting actor.
After his breakthrough, he established the companies Bella Entertainment1 and Bella Film Production, which have produced a number of his films since then.
In 1996, the much acclaimed cult film, Pusher was released and Kim Bodnia was honored for his
lead role as Frank. Then followed films as Bleeder (1999), In China They Eat Dogs (1999), Escape (2001), Dragonfly (2001), Jolly Roger (2001), Old Men in New Cars (2002), Himmelfald (2002).
In 2010 he had a role in the Danish director Susanne Bier's Oscar winning film - Best Foreign language "In A Better World " and
Kim starred along side Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan in the success film "Love is All you Need (2012)
In November 2014, he won the The Angela Film Prize Award for European Film making at the Killkenny Subtitle Film festival in Ireland.
Today Kim Bodnia is a highly respected actor for his work and his role as Martin in the Nordic Noir most famous Danish/Swedish Television crime show "The Bridge I and II". He won The Golden Nymph Award for best actor in television in 2014 at The Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo.
Kim had a lead role in Rosewater, directed by Jon Stewart, his first movie as a director. The film received amazing criticism and the acting opposite Gael Garcia Bernal was astonishing.
In 2018, Kim landed the role as Konstantin in the international TV success series, Killing Eve and the TV series has been a huge success worldwide and has won numerous prizes as Best TV series at the 2019 Golden Globes and The Critics' Choice Awards. Kim was nominated at the TV Baftas in 2019 and 2020, as best supporting actor for his role as Konstantin. Killing Eve stopped the series after 4 series in 2022.
Kim played the role as Vesimir in the hit Netflix series, The Witcher II, which premiered in 2022 and Kim returned as "Jens" in the Danish film "Nightwatch, Demons are Forever", launched in Denmark in December 2023.
in 2023 and 2024 Kim is attached to the "Untitled Formula One Racing Movie" alongside Brad Pitt and he can be seen in the world premiere of "Young Woman & The Sea" in the summer of 2024.- Actress
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Sidse Babett Knudsen is a Danish actress who works in theatre, television, and film. Knudsen made her screen debut in the 1997 improvisational comedy Let's Get Lost, for which she received both the Robert and Bodil awards for Best Actress.
Following the critical success of her debut, Knudsen has been considered one of the top Danish actresses of her generation. In 2000, she again won both best actress awards for the comedy romance Den Eneste Ene (English title: The One and Only). In 2016, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Courted (L'Hermine). Knudsen has also received award nominations for her roles in Monas Verden (Mona's World) and Efter Brylluppet (After the Wedding).
Knudsen achieved international recognition for her leading role as fictional Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish TV series Borgen, and for her role as Theresa Cullen in the HBO science fiction-Western television series Westworld.- Actress
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Stephanie Corneliussen (born April 28, 1987) is a Danish actress and model best known for her role as Joanna Wellick in Mr. Robot.
Corneliussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She attended Johannesskolen in Frederiksberg and studied ballet in Copenhagen. She has a degree in graphic design.
She was discovered at age 13 and encouraged to enter the Supermodel of Scandinavia contest, which was orchestrated by Jacqueline Friis Mikkelsen, the CEO of Unique Models, an international modeling agency based in Copenhagen. She won the contest and subsequently began her international modeling career.
Corneliussen is represented by Scoop Models in Copenhagen. While still expanding her modeling career, she began studying in the United Kingdom in 2007, and in 2011 she relocated to Los Angeles.
Corneliussen has been on the cover of and featured in many magazines, including GQ, Vanity Fair, treats!, Vs., Playboy and Vogue. She has also appeared in several ad campaigns and commercials for brands like bebe, Armani, Dasani, Lexus and Nikon.
She has had guest appearances on the USA Network medical drama series Royal Pains, the NBC sitcom Bad Judge and the TV Land sitcom The Exes.
On July 30, 2012, Corneliussen appeared in Matchbox Twenty's official video for She's So Mean as the mayhem wielding girl.
For the American anthology horror television series American Horror Story, Corneliussen portrayed the "White Nun", the face representing the second season, subtitled Asylum. In 2013, she appeared in the film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, and the following year she portrayed Tatiana in HBO's Emmy Award nominated TV film Hello Ladies.
In 2015, Corneliussen was cast in a recurring role in the USA Network drama-thriller television series Mr. Robot, playing the character of Joanna Wellick. The pilot premiered on May 27, 2015. The show has received critical acclaim and has been nominated for multiple awards, winning the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Drama. Mr. Robot was picked up for a second season.
In September 2015, it was announced that Corneliussen had been cast as Valentina Vostok in the CW series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash.
In March 2016, Corneliussen was promoted to series regular and added to the main cast of Mr. Robot.
In 2018, she was cast as the mysterious antagonist in the television series "Deception".- Actor
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Born in Denmark, Sven-Ole Thorsen has a remarkable sporting background
as a champion bodybuilder, champion power-lifter, and karate black belt
that made him an obvious choice for movies roles as "muscle for hire."
The hulking almost 6' 4" actor first came to attention as one of Thulsa Doom's
bodyguards... The hammer wielding Thorgrim, in the highly popular,
Conan the Barbarian (1982).
He came to Hollywood in 1985, appearing in nearly every
Arnold Schwarzenegger film,
including Predator (1987),
Twins (1988),
Red Heat (1988), and
End of Days (1999). His other on
screen appearances include
Lethal Weapon (1987),
The Quick and the Dead (1995),
The Hunt for Red October (1990),
On Deadly Ground (1994), and
Gladiator (2000). Thorsen's extensive
stunt work includes Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992),
Bulletproof (1996),
Eraser (1996),
Soldier (1998) and
Collateral (2004). On television, he
has been seen in Baywatch (1989) and
The A-Team (1983).- Director
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- Actor
With Sidste omgang (1993) (Last
Round), his graduation short from The National Film School of Denmark,
Thomas Vinterberg got an early taste of critical success. He received the Jury's and
Producers' Awards at the International Student Film Fest in Munich and
won the 1st Prize at the Tel Aviv Film Fest. Popular success followed
with his breakthrough short fiction film,
Drengen der gik baglæns (1995),
about a boy, who - after the death of his brother - discovers he can
turn back time by walking backwards. This poetic short film was
followed the reckless and fast-paced thriller,
The Biggest Heroes (1996).
Vinterberg is one of the founding "brothers" of dogme95, a set of rules
dedicated to reintroducing the element of risk in filmmaking.
The Celebration (1998) was not only his first
Dogme95 project it was also his first international success. With this
movie he "penetrated a layer of evil and abomination [he'd] never been
to before" (according to an interview by Bo Green Jensen for Weekend
Avisen). The story revolves around Family patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt
Hansen, celebrating his 60th birthday. In a speech the eldest son
addresses his father, supposedly to honor him, only to reveal the
father's darkest secret. Among other international prizes, Vinterberg
received the Prix du Jury of the Cannes International Film Festival.
His feature,
It's All About Love (2003),
is a departure from the dogme95 project. It is the story of John
(Joaquin Phoenix) and Elena
(Claire Danes), whose marriage has fallen
apart. Their troubled relationship is reflected in their surroundings
as Vinterberg attempts to create a parallel between the chaos of the
world and the chaos inside the characters.
Back in his homeland,
Thomas Vinterberg nevertheless sticks
to the English language. His
Dear Wendy (2005), written by
Lars von Trier, is a fierce attack
against America's obsession with weapons. In 2007, Vinterberg returns
to Danish with
When a Man Comes Home (2007)
whose subject (a singer comes home to the town he left behind) is
appropriate to the circumstances. Vinterberg strikes hard with his next
two works, Submarino (2010), the gloomy
story of two brothers who try to cope with their depressing everyday
lives and The Hunt (2012), the shocking tale
of a man who falls prey to a madding crowd. It was no surprise to anyone
that his next project was a new adaptation of a
Thomas Hardy novel with Far from the Madding Crowd (2015).- Emilie Ullerup-Petersen was born in Denmark, where her father Ove
Ullerup-Petersen, a Jurist and Diplomat and a decorated Ambassador of
Denmark in Vietnam, held the title of Lord Chamberlain for the Danish
Royal Family.
It was always been her ambition to become an actress. When she
graduated from high school in Copenhagen in 2003, she moved to
Vancouver to pursue acting as a career. She studied at the Vancouver
Film School and graduated in 2005.
Her first role was that of Julia Prynne in the hit sci-fi TV show
Battlestar Galactica (2004).
She also played the part of Sandra in the first episode of
Blood Ties (2006). She was one of
the main characters in the ground breaking series
Sanctuary (2008) where she starred
alongside Amanda Tapping. - Actress
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Iben Hjejle (22 March 1971) is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the Stephen Frears film High Fidelity (2000). In Denmark, she is perhaps best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas (Far from Las Vegas) and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her former real life partner. She also plays Christensen's girlfriend in the sitcom Klovn (Clown) and the title role in the TV crime series Dicte.
Hjejle was born in Copenhagen. She has starred in a series of Danish movies, including a Dogme 95 movie, and also in Danish-produced action films such as Old Men in New Cars. She also played the Swedish Queen Sofia Magdalena in SVT's successful period drama production of The Marriage of Gustav III in 2001.
Hjejle also appeared in the 1996 film Portland, Mifune's Last Song in 1999, The Emperor's New Clothes in 2002, and in Dreaming of Julia and Flickering Lights in 2003. For her performance in Mifune's Last Song, she won an Honourable Mention at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. It was also at the same festival that she was discovered by Stephen Frears, who offered her a part in his film High Fidelity (2000), where she played John Cusack's character's girlfriend Laura. In 2008 he offered her a part in Chéri, in a cameo as Marie Laure. Her involvement was a part of a minor international comeback. Additionally, the same year she worked on Defiance with Daniel Craig and in 2009 she filmed The Eclipse, which received a limited theatrical release in 2010.
Iben Hjejle was a part of the Danish popular television series Anna Pihl until its ending in April 2008, after three seasons. In 2012, she was cast as the lead in the crime-show Dicte The show debuted in early 2013, while reviews were mixed, Hjejle received good reviews for her performance.
She had a part in Lars von Trier's Direktøren for det hele (2006, also known as The Boss of It All).
From 1996-1999, she was married to Emil de Waal. She turned down the role of Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy because she did not like the idea of being so far from home. In an episode of Langt fra Las Vegas, her character Liva makes a joke about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.- Actress
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Natalie Madueño was born on 7 November 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Bedrag (2016), Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019) and The Rain (2018).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Clara Rugaard was born on 5 December 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress and producer, known for Love Gets a Room (2021), I Am Mother (2019) and Black Mirror (2011).- Actor
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Thure Frank Lindhardt was born 24 December 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
At 12, he was cast as the role of the mailman in
Negerkys og labre larver (1987),
and later that year, he acted as a classmate in
Bille August's film
Pelle the Conqueror (1987), which, in
1988, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1989, he played the lead role
in the "The Neverending Story" by
Michael Ende in Roskilde, Denmark. But it
was a children's play. After the few small roles Thure had played, he
realized that he wanted to become a real actor.
Lindhardt graduated from Odense Theatre School in 1998. In 1999, Thure was named recipient of the Reumert Award for Best New Talent. He had roles in two TV productions showing the year 2000, Denmarks Radios
Edderkoppen (2000) a TV series
where he played the poor boy Billy and in the
Lars von Trier-produced family saga
Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken (1999).
His first notable role was that of Brian in
Her i nærheden (2000), directed by
Kaspar Rostrup, written by the novel of
the same name of 'Martha Christensen' and produced by
Tina Dalhoff. The film featured in the
official selection at the 50th Berlin Film Festival. He played the lead
as an autistic boy who is suspected of murder, and he received rave
reviews for his performance and was named Shooting Star at the
festival. This was followed by
Shaky González's film
One Hell of a Christmas (2002)
where he played the part as the young cool criminal Mike. Later in the
year 2002, he got the offer to play Slim in the Ballerin brothers' very
special modern film
Slim Slam Slum (2002). But the
film really tested very poorly with the young audiences, and it became
a Danish, bottom-10 comedy film. But in 2004, he did an outstanding job
in the role of Hans in the German movie
Love in Thoughts (2004)--the
latter of which brought him to the public's attention.
He is now one of the most critically acclaimed actors of his generation
and portrays the weird junkie boy Steso in
Ole Christian Madsen's fantastic
film Angels in Fast Motion (2005).- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Elvira Lind was born on 28 October 1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a director and producer, known for The Letter Room (2020), Bobbi Jene (2017) and Songs for Alexis (2014). She has been married to Oscar Isaac since March 2017. They have two children.- Director
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- Producer
Joachim Trier is a Norwegian writer and director. He is known for Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Louder Than Bombs (2015) and Thelma (2017).
Trier also directed three short films, Pietà (2000), Still (2001) and Procter (2002).
His father, Jacob Trier, was the sound technician of The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, a notable film produced in Norway in 1975.
Louder Than Bombs was his first English-language film.
Thelma was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.- Writer
- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
Nikolaj Arcel was born on 25 August 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a writer and director, known for A Royal Affair (2012), Kongekabale (2004) and The Promised Land (2023).- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Alba Adéle August (born 6 June 1993) is a Danish-Swedish actress.
She is the daughter of Danish director Bille August and Swedish actress and director Pernilla August.
August started as a child actor and debuted in a minor role in her father's film A Song for Martin (2001). In 2017, August was cast in the Danish language Netflix series The Rain.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Though Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award winning writer and director Susanne Bier's work often plays out against a wide-reaching global backdrop, its focus is intimate, carefully exploring the explosive emotions and complexities of familial bonds. This unique combination is part of the formula that has made her Denmark's leading female filmmaker and a powerhouse worldwide.
Bier's 2010 film In a Better World won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011, as well as an Italian Golden Globe Award® for Best European Film and Best Director at the European Film Awards. She previously helmed the multi-award-winning After the Wedding (2006), which was also an Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, and was remade as an English-language film in 2019 starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Billy Crudup.
Bier won an Emmy Award in 2016 for directing the six-part AMC mini-series The Night Manager, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré, with stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, and Olivia Colman all winning Golden Globes for their work.
Bier followed this with the 2018 Netflix film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, which went on to become the most-watched film in Netflix history. In 2020, she directed the six-part HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, the network's first original series to grow its audience each week.
Prior to this, Bier co-wrote and directed the romantic comedy The One and Only (1999), which won Best Film at the Danish Robert Awards and was the most watched domestic film in Denmark in 20 years, with one-fifth of the country's population having seen it at the cinema.
In 2002, she directed Open Hearts, shot in accordance with the Dogme '95 filmmaking aesthetic. The film won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the Robert Festival (Danish Academy Award) and the International Film Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Bier followed this with Brothers (2004), which won, among others, the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2007, Bier directed the award-winning Things We Lost in the Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, her first English-language film.
In 2012, Bier made her triumphant return to the genre with the 2013 winner of the European Film Award for Best Comedy, Love Is All You Need, starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. In 2014, Bier directed A Second Chance, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Most recently, Susanne Bier directed the Showtime limited series The First Lady, starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfieffer, and Gillian Anderson.- Jacob Lohmann was born on 4 February 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor, known for Godland (2022), Enforcement (2020) and Riders of Justice (2020). He has been married to Louise Hauberg since 2012. They have one child.
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Nina van Pallandt became famous in the United States in the early 1970s as the mistress of hoaxer Clifford Irving, who went to jail when
his biography of Howard Hughes, allegedly written with Hughes' co-operation, proved to be a fake when Hughes himself came out of seclusion to repudiate the work. Van Pallandt helped expose Irving's fraud by revealing that he was vacationing with her in Mexico at the time he was allegedly interviewing Hughes. She appears, as herself, in Orson Welles' non-fiction film "F For Fake" (F for Fake (1973)). Van Pallandt was known in Europe as a singer of folk songs before her involvement with Irving and subsequent film career, having been married
to her fellow folk singer, Baron Frederik van Pallandt, with whom she toured Europe and had many hit records as "Nina & Frederik". The height of Van Pallandt's film career was her appearance in four Robert Altman movies: The Long Goodbye (1973), A Wedding (1978), Quintet (1979), and O.C. and Stiggs (1985).- Actress
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As a child Helena Christensen was more interested in becoming a
musician, but as fate would have it began modeling at the age of 9.
After leaving school, she moved to Paris, France to model for the
french magazine 'Elle', and in 1986 she competed in the Miss Universe
contest as Miss Denmark, but unfortunately did not receive a placing.
Her big break came in June of 1989 when she was discovered by
photographer Friedemann Hauss, who instinctively knew that Helena was a
'natural' in terms of modeling ability. Since then her career has taken
off, and she is now one of the top international catwalk queens. Helena
has since taken on the movie industry, starring in a British TV movie
Inferno (1980) and following it up with a cameo role in Robert Altman's
Ready to Wear (1994).- Delia Sheppard was born on 29 July 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for The Big Short (2015), Rocky V (1990) and Now You See Me (2013).
- Johannes Lassen graduated from The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, 2007 in Odense where after he immediately landed very good roles on various theatre stages in Denmark.
He portrayed Wilhelm Dinesen in Ole Bornedal's highly anticipated drama-series "1864" on DR1 in autumn 2014 and a film version was released in Danish cinemas early 2015. His other film credits include Nicolo Donato's critically acclaimed "Brotherhood" from 2010 and the award winning youth drama "Rebounce" by Heidi Maria Faist from 2011.
He portrayed the lead in the Danish TV-drama - "Below the Surface", shown all around the world and this performance got him The Golden Nymph Award 2018 as the best male lead in a TV-series. Johannes was nominated for his role in the 2rd season for C21 International Performance Award.
Johannes did a role alongside his friend Pilou Asbæk and Josh Lucas in the feature film "The Guardian Angel" (2018) by the award winning Finnish Director Arto Halonen. In 2017 he landed a great role in the Swedish Viaplay TV-drama - "The Lawyer", a role he carried over with him to the second season of this show, which will air in early 2020. Johannes can be seen in the Danish TV show "ALFA" which aired mid 2020 on TV2.
Johannes Lassen's stage work includes roles in both classical and contemporary plays, such as "Jesus & Josefine" (2007) and "Treasure Island" (2008) at Odense Theatre, "Kærlighed og menneskerester" at Theatre Momentum (2007) and "Otto er et Næsehorn" (2008), "Odysseus" (2009) at Folketeatret in Copenhagen and furthermore in "BCNU" (Be seeing You) at Theatre Grob (2011).
In 2020 his stage work will provide us with his take on Frank Farmer in the internationally acclaimed musical "The Bodyguard". - Actress
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Ellen Hillingsø was born on 9 March 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for The Experiment (2010), Karlas kabale (2007) and Credo (1997). She is married to Christoffer Castenskiold. They have one child.- Writer
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The Danish-British star, a long-term member of the union, is a well-known broadcaster, actor, comedian, novelist and producer, familiar to audiences fronting shows including QI, The Great British Bake Off and 15 to 1. Her writing credits span theatre, TV, radio, and she has written more than 20 fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults. In 2019 her adaptation of Mamma Mia the Party will open at London's 02.
Toksvig's experience as a political activist and long-time champion for gender equality, including co-founding the Women's Equality Party, stands her in good stead to continue to build on the union's legacy of campaigning for equality and diversity.- Actress
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Clara Rosager was born on 11 November 1996 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress and writer, known for Morbius (2022), Misbehaviour (2020) and Before the Frost (2018).- Actor
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David Ken Sakurai Bo, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His Eurasian heritage, has through the years brought his work around the globe, across cultures - through Europe, Asia and the U.S.
David first became known to international audiences for his performance in Károly Ujj Mészáros' fantasy noir Liza, The Fox-Fairy. The film was a European festival darling and heralded for best picture several times over. David's performance as the lead character "Tomy Tani", gained a great cult following with European and Asian audiences.
In the U.S. market, he was introduced in the flashy role of Marvel villain, Scythe, in Scott Buck's martial arts series Iron Fist from Marvel Studios. He followed this, with the role of Mutsuhiro 'The Bird' Watanabe in the Harold Cronk-directed Unbroken: Path to Redemption, the sequel to the three- time Academy Award nominated 2014 film.
His work in Scandinavia and Europe include Hans Peter Mollands' revenge comedy In Order of Disappearance, opposite Stellan Skarsgård, the Netflix show Lilyhammer, and Acts of Vengeance, alongside Antonio Banderas.
2017 saw him starring as lead opposite Clémentine Poidatz in the controversial drama Housewife from Turkish filmmaker Can Evrenol.
In 2018 he joined J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Wizarding World, in David Yates' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Here he portrayed the role of Krall, a wizard and loyal follower of Johnny Depp's Grindelwald.
His recent feature films include, The Doorman, from Japanese director Ryûhei Kitamura, starring opposite Jean Reno and Ruby Rose, One Ranger by Jesse V Johnson, starring Thomas Jane - and the Danish crime drama Ripple by Joey Moe.
On the Television side he has been a recurring on Ridley Scott's Amazon series The Man in The High Castle, on Paul WS Anderson series Origin, guest-starred in CBS's S.W.A.T. - and been a series regular on the Scandinavian TV series Hvide Sande & Alfa.
David's strong interest in the creative process of Film/TV as a whole, led him into writing and producing himself, starting with Echoes of a Ronin, directed by Shaky Gonzalez, an action-fantasy film, funded by The Danish Film Institute, premiering on Danish National TV in 2014.
He has since established his own production company, Bonnaveddda Entertainment, founded with partner Kristina Korsholm, and has in recent years been developing and writing several projects in close collaboration with Lene Børglum's Space Rocket Nation among others.
2024 will see David featured in two highly anticipated productions: The blockbuster video-game, MindsEye, from Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies - and Netflix's live action series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.- Actress
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Vic Carmen Sonne was born on 23 April 1994 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Holiday (2018), In the Blood (2016) and Winter Brothers (2017).- Actress
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Osa Massen (born Aase Madsen Iversen) was a newspaper photographer with
an ambition to become a film editor. Prolific Danish film director
Alice O'Fredericks gave her a role in her film Kidnapped (1935).
After only two films in Denmark, she was given a screen test by 20th
Century Fox and arrived in Hollywood in 1938.- Actress
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Jaqueline Fleming, an African American and Danish beauty was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a Danish-German mother and an African American, black foot Indian and Irish father. She grew up and traveled between Europe, New York, St Louis, Chicago and New Orleans.
She began acting on stage at the age of six while attending The Little Red School House in New York City. Her training in the theatre world is where she developed her discipline, strength and respect for the craft. She performed in theater houses across the country well into her adulthood.
She is an Award winning Film and theatre actress and the winner of Two Hapa Awards for Best Actress in an independent film. She won for her role as Nellie Reeves, the wife of Bass Reeves, in "Hell On The Border" and her role as Laura Bishop, a grieving widow, in "Atone". She is also the winner of the prestigious Jeff Award for best actress in an ensemble for her dramatic portrayal of a daughter of a slave master. Jaqueline is known for the wide range of characters she can play authentically. Mostly defined as a Character Actress or chameleon in the industry.
Over the years she has braced the silver screen in memorable roles opposite such A-Listers as Morgan Freeman, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Pine, Terrance Howard, Kate Hudson, Halle Berry and Anthony Mackie to name a few.
In addition to acting, Jaqueline also has passion behind the camera as a producer, director and content creator. She keeps herself very busy developing, creating and producing Film and TV projects out of her production company, At The Kitchen Table, which mission is to tell dynamic, interesting & entertaining stories that feature women of color as leads. She has several projects across various platforms as an actress and producer.
Jaqueline Fleming is also a key note speaker and travels the world speaking to aspiring actors and film makers at various universities, events and festivals about the steps required to have a professional career on both sides of the camera.- Actor
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Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a young actor, known for The Rain (2018), Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013) and Tidsrejsen (2014). Lucas made his acting debut in the Danish Musical & Circus for children, Cirkus Summarum (2009), playing one of the leading roles "Buster", a kid trying to remind everyone, always to use their imagination.- Actress
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Cecilie Stenspil was born on 22 October 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Collision (2019), Badehotellet (2013) and Livvagterne (2009).- Actress
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Heidi is a Writer, Producer, Actress, Entrepreneur, and Community Leader. She received a B. F. A. from the USC Theater/Cinema School, where she studied with notable artists such as Anna Deveare Smith and Frank Condon. She has performed in theater in both Los Angeles and New York, including co-staring with Judith Ivy and Greg Germann in The Rimers of Eldritch, directed by Lanford Wilson at La Mama Theater Club, Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Arabian at The Odyssey Theater, and Whores! at The Hollywood Actors Theater, for which she received the H.A.T. award for Best Actress.
On TV, Heidi was in a series regular on the CBS show "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman", and has a lengthy list of credits in cinema and television. Heidi most recently completed a leading role in the Netflix pilot "Discord and Harmony" as "Deb" the pill popping ex-stripper mother from hell.
A passionate Entrepreneur and Community Leader, Heidi started a company known as "The Box Girls" that put conversation starter/ice breaker games on the map. A large portion of the profits from the sales of over 35 Box Girl products was donated to charities close to her heart. Heidi sold "The Box Girls" in 2012 to the "Melissa and Doug" toy company so that she could resume her acting and writing career. Heidi has also served on the boards of charitable organizations including P.S. Arts, Vista Del Mar Children's Services, and The Jewish Federation. She is the recipient of numerous philanthropic awards including "The Ruby Award" for leadership and service to the Los Angeles community presented to her by Gloria Steinem.
Heidi is married to David Haddad, and has three children Jordan, Matisse, and Shana.- Actor
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With an English father and a Danish mother, Allan Hyde was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. Allan began studying acting at the age of 11 and soon after was cast in Cameron Macintosch's production "Les Miserables".
Allan's big breakthrough came when Oscar-winning director Allan Ball reunited a worldwide cast for the acclaimed HBO's television series "True Blood" where he played a crucial character named Godric.
In Denmark, Allan's first TV role was in the mini-series "Album", followed up by "Kødkataloget" as well as starring in "Heartless", "Dicte" and "Below the Surface". Other TV productions include "Those Who Kill","Lærkevej" and the Norwegian series "Implosion".
In 2008, Allan starred in the short film "The Awakening" which was nominated for an Oscar. Furthermore, he has participated in a wide selection of feature films such as "Father of four", "Where had all the good men gone?" and the epic saga "The Shamer's Daughter" where he plays one of the leading roles.
On the Danish theatre scene, Allan performed in the hit musical "Grease" which run over two seasons and later on he played Bobby in "Saturday Night Fever"
Allan explored other creative passions when he wrote, directed and starred in the English-language short film "Stupid Clown" after directing two Danish short films: "Rickshaw" and "Friendship". In 2020, he has written, directed and played in the TV-series "Cold Hawaii" with his colleague Aske Bang.- Actor
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Nicolas Bro was born on 16 March 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Riders of Justice (2020), Adam's Apples (2005) and Kongekabale (2004).- Actor
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Born 1948 in central Copenhagen. Lived there ever since. Did 25 years
of theatre, - like Alceste in the Misanthropist, Richard in Richard lll
(solo), Faust in Faust, Astrov in Vanja, a lot of worried men,- stopped
doing it in 1998. Since then only worried men on film. Worked on more than 100 films by Per Fly, Marc
Forster, John Madden, Lone Scherfig, Sydney Pollack, Jan Troell, Martin
Campbell, Anette K Olesen, Pernille Fischer Christensen, and others.
Since 2000 lives with Tove Bornhoeft, wonderful Danish theatre
manager/director/actress. Two grown up daughters. No animals. Dogs,
pigs, chickens, cats, birds, horses, fish, rabbits - all gone now.- Actress
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Rie Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1976 to an artist mother and an
Economist father. She was raised in the Danish country in an extended
family with nine brothers and sisters. She moved to New York at the age
of 15 to paint and has continued to travel ever since. She lived in
Huntington Beach California where she briefly attended film school as a
director in 1998. While writing in Paris she was cast in Brian De
Palmas "Femme Fatale". After her role in Brian De Palma's film she was
picked by director Tom Ford as the exclusive worldwide face of Gucci.
At the age of 24 she directed her first short film, "Thinning the Herd"
which she also wrote and acted in. "Thinning the Herd" nominated for a
Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival 2004. She opened Taormina film
festival with her second short film 'Il Vestito' which she also wrote
and appeared in. Shot on location in Palermo, Sicily as a black and
white homage to Italian Neo-realism. In 2005 she was cast as the lead
in Luc Besson's "Angel-A" a French speaking black and white fairy tale
set in Paris. "Human Zoo" her first feature which she wrote, directed
and produced was officially selected at last years Berlin Film Festival
and was the opening night Panorama presentation.- Writer
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The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the fact that his films often deal with religious themes) Dreyer did not receive a strict Lutheran upbringing, but was raised in a household that embraced modern ideas: in his spare time the adoptive father was an avid photographer, and the Dreyers voted for The Danish Social Democrates. When he was baptized the reasoning was culturally, not religiously motivated. Dreyer's childhood was an unhappy one. He did not feel his adoptive parents' love (especially the mother), and longed for his biological mother, whom he never knew.
After working as a journalist, he entered the film industry, and advanced from reading scripts to directing films himself. In the silent era his output was large, but it quickly diminished with the arrival of the talkie. In his lifetime he was recognized as being a fanatical perfectionist amongst producers, and thus difficult to work with. His
career was dogged by problems with the financing of his films,
which led to large gaps in his output - and after the critics, too,
denounced Vampyr (1932), he returned to journalism in 1932, and became a
cinema manager in 1952 - though he still made features up to the mid-
1960s, a few years before his death. His films are typically slow,
intense studies of human psychology, usually of people undergoing
extreme personal or religious crises. He is now regarded as the greatest director ever to emerge from Denmark.- Actor
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Elliott Hove Crosset is a Danish-American actor. Born March 18th 1988, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He is educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, and graduated in 2015.
He is best known for his roles in film and television-series as In the Blood(2016), Winter Brothers(2017), Journal 64(2018), Before The Frost(2019), Wildland(2020) and The Bridge(2018)- Actor
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Christian Tafdrup was born on 8 April 1978 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor and director, known for Speak No Evil (2022), En forelskelse (2008) and Parents (2016).- Writer
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Writer/director Lone Scherfig graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1984. Her first feature film, THE BIRTHDAY TRIP (1990), was selected for Panorama in Berlin, the New Directors section at MOMA in New York and won the Grand Jury Prix in Rouen. Her next film, ON OUR OWN (1998), received the Grand Prix in Montreal and the Cinekid Prize in Amsterdam. Scherfig then wrote and directed ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (2000; the Danish 'Dogma' #5), which was a huge audience hit and won her the Silver Bear and the international film critics' award FIPRESCI at the 2001 Berlinale, plus numerous other awards around the world.
Scherfig's first English-language feature, WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF (2002), toured the festival circuit and brought home awards from e.g. France, the US and Japan. Her next production, AN EDUCATION (2009), won the Audience Award at Sundance and was nominated for three Oscars and eight BAFTAs. Scherfig has since directed three British films, i.e. ONE DAY (2011), THE RIOT CLUB (2014) and THEIR FINEST (2016) which premiered at TIFF in 2016 and screened in Sundance and London as the Mayor's gala. In 2019, Lone Scherfig's The Kindness of Strangers opened and was in competition at Berlin International Film Festival.
In between features Scherfig has directed a range of TV-series, including TAXA (1997), QUIET WATERS (1999), BETTER TIMES (2004) and, most recently, THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB (2015; conceptualised by Scherfig).- Kim Kold is a former football (soccer) goalkeeper, who in 1993 at 27
years of age suffered a serious injury in his Achilles tendon. He was
sent to the gym doing rehabilitation training. He took up an interest
in bodybuilding and started competing in 1997. He won the Danish
National Bodybuilding Championship in 2006. He has been working as
locksmith in Denmark for several years during his bodybuilding career,
and today he is the owner of his own security business in Puerto Banus,
Spain.
In 2007 he was persuaded to play the lead role in the short film
"Dennis" instructed by his friend Mads Matthiesen. The movie was not
promoted, but soon became viral and made him a name as an amateur
actor. Being 193 cm tall and weighing 140 kilograms he is primarily
known for his hulking size. The team work with instructor Mads
Matthiesen later lead to the movie "Teddy Bear" in 2012, which is based
on the short film Dennis. - Actor
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Lars Ranthe was born on 26 August 1969 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor, known for Another Round (2020), Adam's Apples (2005) and Dirch (2011). He has been married to Christine Albeck Børge since 1998.- Actress
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Birthe Neumann was born on 30 April 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for The Celebration (1998), Solkongen (2005) and Move Me (2003). She has been married to Paul Hüttel since 31 December 1974.- Actress
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Laura Christensen was born on 26 January 1984 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress and writer, known for Dig og mig (2008), Kandidaten (2008) and Midsommer (2003). She has been married to Thomas Levin since 25 August 2007. They have two children.- Lars Brygmann was born on 17 February 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor, known for Riders of Justice (2020), Dicte (2013) and Rembrandt (2002). He has been married to Katrine Brygmann Salomon since 2000.