Line Arlien-Søborg is a Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 actress and film director. In 1981, Arlien-Søborg first received attention for her role as the conniving schoolgirl, Anne-Mette, in Nils Malmros

Nils Malmros

Nils Malmros , a Danish film director and screenwriter, is considered a leading auteur of realism in Danish cinema. Malmros is noted for his detailed focus on the common growing pains of adolescence and the loss of innocence, which he draws from his childhood experiences growing up in Århus, Denmark...

's coming-of-age drama Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge (film)

Tree of Knowledge is a 1981 Danish coming-of-age drama directed by Nils Malmros. The film details the lives of 17 teenage schoolmates in 1950's Denmark. Shooting on location at the high school which he had attended, Malmros took two years to film the action, so the cast members reflected the real...

(Kundskabens træ). Filming for the role was performed over a two-year period, while Arlien-Søborg was 13- to 15-years-old, to realistically show her character's physical and emotional maturation. Two years later, Arlien-Søborg performed the lead in Malmros' 1983 drama Skønheden og udyret (Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (1983 film)

Beauty and the Beast is a 1983 Danish drama film written and directed by Nils Malmros. The film stars Line Arlien-Søborg as a sexually active 16-year-old and Jesper Klein as the father who struggles to accept his daughter's relationships with boys as well as his own jealousy...

). Malmos wrote the role of the sexually blossoming 16-year-old Mette specifically for Arlien-Søborg for which she was awarded both the 1984 Bodil and Robert

Robert Award

The Robert statue is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Film Academy of Denmark. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars. The award, voted only by academy members, is acknowledgement by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the...

 awards for Best Actress.

In 1986 Arlien-Søborg performed in the Danish television miniseries Kaj Munk

Kaj Munk

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II...

and she once again performed for Malmros in his 1989 film Århus by Night. After completing an education in literature history, she worked for Denmark's DR Television

Danmarks Radio

DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

 studio where she wrote and directed the miniseries Derude med snøren. Arlien-Søborg subsequently worked as an assistant director for Malmros on two films, 2002's At kende sandheden (Facing the Truth

Facing the Truth

Facing The Truth was a British television programme. Partly based on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the three part series was presented by Fergal Keane and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

) and Kærestesorger (in post-production in 2008).

Filmography

Year	Title	Original title	Credit	Notes
1981	Tree of Knowledge Tree of Knowledge (film) Tree of Knowledge is a 1981 Danish coming-of-age drama directed by Nils Malmros. The film details the lives of 17 teenage schoolmates in 1950's Denmark. Shooting on location at the high school which he had attended, Malmros took two years to film the action, so the cast members reflected the real...	Kundskabens træ	Actress ... Anne-Mette
1983	Beauty and the Beast (1983 film) Beauty and the Beast (1983 film) Beauty and the Beast is a 1983 Danish drama film written and directed by Nils Malmros. The film stars Line Arlien-Søborg as a sexually active 16-year-old and Jesper Klein as the father who struggles to accept his daughter's relationships with boys as well as his own jealousy...	Skønheden og udyret	Actress ... Mette	won Bodil Award for Best Actress won Robert Award Robert Award The Robert statue is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Film Academy of Denmark. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars. The award, voted only by academy members, is acknowledgement by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the...  for Best Actress
1986	Kaj Munk Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II...	Kaj Munk Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II...	Actress ... Lisbeth	(TV miniseries)
1989	Århus by Night	Århus by Night	Actress ... Lisa
1998	Derude med snøren	Derude med snøren	Director Writer	(TV miniseries)
2002	At kende sandheden	Facing the Truth Facing the Truth Facing The Truth was a British television programme. Partly based on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the three part series was presented by Fergal Keane and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...	Assistant Director
2008	Kærestesorger	Kærestesorger	Assistant Director	(post-production)

External links

• Line Arlien-Søborg at IMDb
• Line Arlien-Søborg at the The Danish Film Database (in Danish)
• Line Arlien-Søborg at Det Danske Filminstitut (in Danish)