List of Danish actors
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This is a list of notable actors and actresses from Denmark
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Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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- Aage BendixenAage BendixenAage Bendixen was a Danish actor. He is best known for his work in short comedy films of the 1920s and 1930s in the Cinema of Denmark.-Filmography:*Fange nr. 1 .... Regissør*Han, Hun og Hamlet...
- Anders BircowAnders BircowAnders Bircow, is a Danish entertainer. Anders Bircow was born in the town of Helsinge, and attended schools in Nærum, Ramløse and Helsinge. He received an education as a bank worker in Helsinge, and later worked as a school teacher in Vorgod in Herning.Bircow played guitar and bass in a band...
- Rasmus BjergRasmus BjergRasmus Bjerg is a Danish actor.He has enjoyed much success alongside Jonas Schmidt, in series like P.I.S. - Politiets Indsats Styrke, Wulffmorgenthaler, Dolph & Wulff and Jul i Verdensrummet....
- Oliver BjerrehuusOliver BjerrehuusOliver Bjerrehuus is a model. He was born in Denmark to actress-turned-writer Suzanne Bjerrehuus. In 1997, Oliver traveled to New York, where his career took off when he landed jobs for such entities as Calvin Klein, Nautica, and Giorgio Armani. In 2003, Bjerrehuus moved back to Denmark. He is...
- Lars BomLars BomLars Bom is a Danish actor, educated at The Danish National School of Theatre in 1985. Lars Bom has worked in a variety of roles in Theatre, Film and Television, and won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival in 1999, for his starring role in the cyberpunk-thriller Skyggen...
- Klaus BondamKlaus BondamKlaus Bondam is a Danish actor and politician.Klaus Bondam got his breakthrough in the movie Festen and has starred in the series Langt fra Las Vegas as the sexually driven boss Buckingham...
- Beatrice BonnesenBeatrice BonnesenBeatrice Bonnesen was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 21 films between 1926 and 1974.She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Filmography:* Det sovende hus * Tretten aar...
- Poul BundgaardPoul BundgaardPoul Arne Bundgaard was a Danish actor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen Banden films.-Biography:...
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- John Hahn-PetersenJohn Hahn-PetersenJohn Hahn-Petersen was a Danish theatre, TV and movie actor.He made his debut in 1955 and starred in a number of productions including:* Matador* Landsbyen* Taxa...
- Caroline Halle-Müller
- Holger Juul HansenHolger Juul HansenHolger Juul Hansen is a Danish actor.Holger Juul Hansen has starred in a large number of Danish movies and television shows. His most prominent roles was as banker Hans Christian Varnæs, head of one of the two rival families in Matador, and as Doctor Moesgaard in The Kingdom.-References:...
- Anne Louise HassingAnne Louise HassingAnne Louise Hassing is a Danish actress best known for her award-winning roles in the films, The Idiots and Pain of Love .- Career :...
- Johanne Luise HeibergJohanne Luise HeibergJohanne Luise Heiberg was one of the greatest Danish actresses of the 19th century. She is most famous for her work at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where she achieved great success.-Early life:...
- Mimi HeinrichMimi HeinrichMimi Heinrich is Danish actress and writer. Outside Denmark she is mostly known for her roles in the cult movies Reptilicus and Journey to the 7th Planet. She had her debut on Det Ny Teater in 1957 and starred in 19 Danish movies between 1953 and 1964....
- Iben HjejleIben HjejleIben Hjejle is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the John Cusack film High Fidelity . In Denmark, she is perhaps best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her real life boyfriend...
- Pelle HvenegaardPelle HvenegaardPelle Hvenegaard is a Danish actor and writer, best known for his role in the award-winning film Pelle the Conqueror, a Danish-Swedish co-production filmed on Sjaelland and Bornholm, Denmark that was released in Sweden December 25, 1987...
- Allan HydeAllan HydeAllan Hyde is a Danish television, theatre and film actor. He was born and raised in Denmark to a Danish mother and English father from London . He is a singer on one track of the international versions of the soundtrack Camp Rock...
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- Katja KKatja KKatja K, also known as Katja Kean , is a Danish former pornographic actress.She also starred in two adult hardcore films produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lars von Trier's company Zentropa: Constance and Pink Prison .In 2002, Katja changed her stage name from "Katja Kean" to "Katja...
- Nikolaj Lie KaasNikolaj Lie KaasNikolaj Lie Kaas is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is also the host of the annual Zulu Comedy Galla on Danish TV....
- Kristian KiehlingKristian KiehlingKristian Kiehling is an actor who also plays roles in English films or TV series.-Career:Kiehling's first role was in 1997, in Eine Herzensangelegenheit He played Luis.He attended the Mozarteum School for Music and Drama in Salzburg/Austria from 1997 until 2000.In 2000 he became a performing member...
- Simon KvammSimon KvammSimon Kvamm , is a Danish-Faroese actor and singer.He is most well known as member of the Danish rock band Nephew, where he is the lead vocalist and keyboard player. The band has had several hits in Denmark such as Igen & Igen &, Superliga, En Wannabe Darth Vader and Movie Klip, which have won them...
- Helene KvintHelene KvintHelene Kvint is a renowned Danish performance artist and actress. Ms. Kvint lived and worked in Germany and the Czech Republic for many years and formed her own theatre group, Divadlo Antena, in 2001. She now lives in Copenhagen....
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- Peter MalbergPeter MalbergPeter Malberg was a Danish actor best known for his role as Onkel Anders in the Far Til Fire movies. Peter was originally educated as a painter, but his job at Århus Theatre as a scenic painter along with the fact that his older brother Henrik was an actor, eventually led to him being in theater-...
- Osa MassenOsa Massen-Background and early career:Born Aase Madsen, she began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen notably appeared as Melvyn Douglas' unfaithful wife dealing with blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face ....
- Helle Michaelsen
- Mads MikkelsenMads Mikkelsen' is a Danish actor.-Life and career:Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher...
- Ib MossinIb MossinIb Mossin was a Danish actor and director best known for his role as Peter in the Far Til Fire movies. He had his breakthrough as the apprentice Egon in Farlig Ungdom , a movie about the crime scene in Copenhagen among adolescents. He also had roles in 14 of the 18 Danish films based on novels by...
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- Birthe NeumannBirthe NeumannBirthe Neumann is a Danish actress.In 1972 she graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre, and was shortly afterwards employed as an actress at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen....
- Asta NielsenAsta NielsenAsta Nielsen , was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta...
- Brigitte NielsenBrigitte NielsenBrigitte Nielsen is a Danish model, actress, musician and reality television personality who began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and several years later made appearances in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV and is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone...
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- Ghita NørbyGhita NørbyGhita Nørby is a popular Danish actress with 117 film credits to her name from 1956-2005, making her one of the most active Danish actresses ever. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to opera singer Einar Nørby...
- Carsten NorgaardCarsten NorgaardCarsten Norgaard , known as Carsten Nørgaard in Denmark, is a Danish actor. Norgaard was born Frederiksberg, Denmark. He began his career playing the enigmatic Dolphin Man in the 1988 film The Fruit Machine...
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- Dirch PasserDirch PasserDirch Hartvig Passer was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 90 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors....
- Ulf PilgaardUlf PilgaardUlf Pilgaard is a Danish actor. The son of a priest he studied theology but shifted to become an actor. Married with Gitte Pilgaard.He has been an important part of Cirkusrevyen in 28 years. He has appeared on several films e.g...
- Søren PilmarkSøren PilmarkSøren Pilmark is a Danish actor.With Natasja Crone Back, he is notable for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in a seemingly endless string of rhyming couplets....
- Olaf PooleyOlaf PooleyOlaf Pooley is a British actor and writer born February 2, 1916, in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England, of an English father and Danish mother.Pooley married the actress Irlin Hall in 1946 and together they had a daughter, the actress Kirstie Pooley and son comedian Seyton Pooley...
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- Rie RasmussenRie RasmussenRie Rasmussen is a Danish actress, film director, writer, and photographer.She was discovered at the age of fifteen while on holiday in New York.-Film:...
- Poul ReichhardtPoul ReichhardtPoul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/50s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen Gang films.For almost thirty years...
- Kirsten RolffesKirsten RolffesKirsten Rolffes was a Danish actress, internationally mostly recognized for her role in The Kingdom and Matador...
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- Ib SchønbergIb SchønbergIb Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg was a Danish film actor, and is considered one of the leading actors of Danish film in the 20th century.-Early life:...
- Ove SprogøeOve SprogøeOve Wendelboe Sprogøe Petersen was a Danish actor. Born in Odense, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe. He married Eva Rasmussen in 1945, with whom he had three children. One of these is actor Henning Sprogøe....
- Karl SteggerKarl SteggerKarl Stegger was a Danish actor, who appeared in 157 films which makes him the most used Danish actor....
- Yutte StensgaardYutte StensgaardYutte Stensgaard is a Danish actress born in Thisted, Jutland, Denmark, best known for her starring role in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire.-Career:...
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- Annette VadimAnnette VadimAnnette Vadim was a Danish actress who was the second wife of the French film director Roger Vadim. Her films included Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses ....
- Valda ValkyrienValda ValkyrienValda Valkyrien was a Danish prima ballerina and a silent film actress.-Early life and career:Born Adele Eleonore Freed in Reykjavík, Iceland, under the stage name Valda Valkyrien she was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet...
- Merete Van KampMerete Van KampMerete Van Kamp is a Danish-born model turned actress who found success in American television.She played the lead role in the 1983 TV movie Princess Daisy and then was a major cast member in the drama series Dallas as Grace Van Owen during the 1985-1986 season.She has also guest-starred on Hotel...
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- Nikolaj Coster WaldauNikolaj Coster WaldauNikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. He received his education at Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen in 1993, and his breakthrough in Danish film came with the 1994 hit Nattevagten . He played Detective John Amsterdam on the Fox television series New Amsterdam...
- Viggo WieheViggo WieheViggo Hjalmar Wiehe was a Danish stage and film actor whose career spanned over five decades.-Career:...
- Aage Winther-JørgensenAage Winther-Jørgensen-Filmography:*Præsten i Vejlby - 1931*Skaf en sensation - 1934*Det gyldne smil - 1935*Elverhøj - 1939*Sørensen og Rasmussen - 1940*En søndag på Amager - 1941*Afsporet - 1942*Drama på slottet - 1943...
- Susse WoldSusse WoldSusse Wold is a stage and screen actress whose career has spanned five decades. Born Lise Wold in Denmark, she is the daughter of actress Marguerite Viby. She quickly became a leading lady at the Det Kongelige Teater . In addition to her many TV, film and stage roles, Wold has toured the world...
See also
- List of Danes
- Lists of actors