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Mads Mikkelsen Actor, Casino Royale Mads Mikkelsen is a synonym to the great success the Danish film industry has had since the mid-1990s. Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher, he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors. The success in his home country includes Flickering Lights... | |
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Lars von Trier Writer, Melancholia 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. A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with stylistic nods to Dreyer... | |
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Nicolas Winding Refn Director, Drive Writer, Director, Producer. Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970. Aged 8 he moved to New York with his parents where he lived out his teenage years. New York quickly became his city and soon began to shape Nicolas's future. At 17, Nicolas moved back to his native Copenhagen to complete his Gymnasium (High School) Education... | |
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Giancarlo Esposito Actor, The Usual Suspects Giancarlo Esposito was born in Denmark where his parents were working at the time, but after several more years of traveling they settled in Manhattan by the time he was six and that's where he grew up. Coming from a theatrical background (his mother was a singer and his father a carpenter and stagehand) it was... | |
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Thomas Vinterberg Self, The Hunt The masterfully conceived films of newcomer Thomas Vinterberg have left audiences as well as critics hoping that he has many more films ahead of him. With Last Round (Last Round), his graduation short from The National Film School of Denmark, he got an early taste of critical success. He received... | |
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Deepika Padukone Actress, Love Aaj Kal Deepika Padukone,born 5 January 1986 in Mangalore, Karnataka, is an Indian model & 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... | |
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Susanne Bier Director, In a Better World | |
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Thure Lindhardt Actor, Angels & Demons 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, and later that year, he acted as a classmate in Bille August's film Pelle the Conqueror, which, in 1988, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film... | |
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Emilie Ullerup Actress, Hunt to Kill Emilie Ullerup was born in Denmark, where her father holds 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... | |
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Iben Hjejle Actress, High Fidelity | |
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Sven-Ole Thorsen Actor, Gladiator 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 6' 5" actor first came to attention as one of Thulsa Doom's bodyguards... The hammer wielding Thorgrim... | |
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Jesper Christensen Actor, Casino Royale 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... | |
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Anna Karina Actress, Vivre Sa Vie Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless, but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they got married and she became famous with the "Nouvelle vague" movies directed by him, Jacques Rivette or Agnès Varda... | |
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Kim Bodnia Actor, Pusher Born in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, Kim Bodnia's film debut came in 1989 with a small role in En afgrund af frihed, after some theatre experience, but it wasn't until 1994 that he got his breakthrough as the macho character Jens in Ole Bornedal's Nightwatch, for which he won several awards... | |
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Helena Christensen Self, Prêt-à-Porter 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... | |
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Jaqueline Fleming Actress, Red Jaqueline Fleming, affectionately known as "Jaq," was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an African American father and a Danish-German mother. She was raised between New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. By the time she was 3-years-old, her family knew she was attracted to the arts and helped cultivate that interest by enrolling her in everything from dance class to acting class... | |
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Delia Sheppard Actress, Rocky V | |
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Paprika Steen Actress, The Celebration In Okay, director and actress Paprika Steen shows off her multi- facetted acting talent as the loud-mouth control-freak Nete. It is Paprika Steen's first major part for which she has already been nominated for The Best Actress Award from the European Film Academy. The actress has won the Danish Academy Award for her supporting role in the mega-hit Den eneste ene (The One and Only... | |
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Rie Rasmussen Actress, Human Zoo Rie Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1978 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... | |
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Lone Scherfig Director, An Education Like her celebrated great uncle, writer Hans Scherfig, Lone Scherfig masters the art of subtle characterization. Scherfig gets under the character's skin to reveal the impulses of good and evil, while the plot evolves without strain. Though a light humor prevails, there is a pervasive sense of the tragic in her characterization... | |
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Joachim Trier Director, Reprise Joachim Trier is a Norwegian director and writer, born in Cophenhagen in Denmark in 1974 in a film family. Trier is son of Jacob Trier, which was the sound technician of Norway's most popular film ever "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" Jacob Trier, and grandson of the important Norwegian film maker Erik Løchen... | |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer Writer, The Passion of Joan of Arc The illegitimate son of a Swedish farmer and his housekeeper, Dreyer spent his early years in Danish foster homes before being adopted by a strict Lutheran family. He became a journalist in 1910, and entered films as a title writer, then scriptwriter and eventually director. His first film showed little promise or talent... | |
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Nikolaj Arcel Writer, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Kasper Barfoed Director, The Numbers Station Danish director Kasper Barfoed was born in Copenhagen in 1972. He was a child actor, performing in the stage musical version of Oliver Twist and in Ingmar Bergman-actress, Liv Ullmann's directing debut Sofie. Later, he moved behind the camera, directing commercials and 2nd unit work on feature films... | |
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Lars Brygmann Actor, The Celebration | |
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Evy Norlund Actress, The Flying Fontaines | |
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Nicolas Bro Actor, Adam's Apples | |
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Frederick Brisson Producer, The Pajama Game | |
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Jean Hersholt Actor, Heidi If ever there was a Great Dane in Hollywood it was Jean Hersholt - and one of its great hearts as well. He was from a well-known Danish stage and entertainment family that had toured throughout Europe performing with young Jean as an essential cast member. He graduated from the Copenhagen Art School... | |
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Nina van Pallandt Actress, The Long Goodbye 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... | |
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Gitte Lee Actress, Een blandt mange | |
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Dirch Passer Actor, Mig og mafiaen Dirch Hartvig Passer was born on May 18, 1926, on Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Ragnhild Fich and Capt. Vilhelm Passer (seaman). He never did well in school, being the class clown, which had a negative effect on his grades. He did especially badly in mathematics, which came to follow him the rest of his life... | |
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Cecilie Stenspil Actress, Del 1 | |
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Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Director, What No One Knows Søren Kragh-Jacobsen was born on 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark and is one of the country's most respected directors and co-inventor of the "dogme95" project. After becoming a popular musician, he attended film school in Prague and returned to his home country where he made his first feature film Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?... | |
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Bodil Joensen Self, Sex Galore | |
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Nadia van de Ven Actress, The Wailer 2 Nadia Van de Ven was born in Denmark, Copenhagen in 1979, but mainly grew up in Holland, France and Italy. Being part of a very artistic family, with actors, musicians, painters, writers; she was always surrounded by Art, and while she was doing her language school in Milano, at 16 years old, she decided to become an actress and went to Hollywood... | |
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Sandi Toksvig Writer, Episode #2.13 | |
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Laura Bro Actress, A Royal Affair Since graduating from the Danish National Theatre School in Copenhagen in 2002, Laura has achieved recognition for her work on both stage and screen. Recently she was co-recipient of the Natsværmer (Moth) Award at the Copenhagen Night Film Festival 2005 along with her brother, Nicolas. In 2004, Laura... | |
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Mads Matthiesen Writer, Teddy Bear | |
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Ejner Johansson Self, En maler og hans by | |
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Peter Flinth Director, Arn: The Knight Templar | |
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Heidi Kozak Actress, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | |
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Victor Borge Self, The King of Comedy Pianist, composer, songwriter, entertainer and actor, educated at Borgerdydskolen and the Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied with Egon Petri and Frederic Lammond. His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. Arriving in the US in 1940, he made his American radio debut on the Bing Crosby show... | |
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Pelle Hvenegaard Actor, Pelle the Conqueror | |
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Ghita Nørby Actress, The Inheritance | |
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Osa Massen Actress, Rocketship X-M Luck and timing can be everything in a career and in glamorous, sultry-eyed Osa Massen's case, it afforded her the opportunity of a brief but enjoyable 1940s film career during WWII Hollywood. She was born Aase Madsen on January 13, 1915 (some sources indicate 1916), in Copenhagen, Denmark, and received early training as a news photographer with special emphasis on becoming a film editor... | |
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Danny Perea Actress, Duck Season | |
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Kim Fupz Aakeson Writer, Perfect Sense | |
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Kira Eggers Self, Kira Eggers | |
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Mia Lyhne Actress, Klown | |
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