Benedikte Hansen Explained
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Birth Date: | 24 September 1958 |
Nationality: | Danish |
Education: | Denmark's Statens Teaterskole |
Occupation: | actress |
Known For: | her role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen |
Notable Works: | see Performances |
Father: | Dr Flemming Hansen |
Mother: | Aase Riegels Borch |
Spouse: | , Laws Michael Christiansen (div) |
Partner: | Viggo Sommer (ended 2017) |
Benedikte Hansen (born 24 September 1958) is a Danish actress, best known to international audiences for her role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen.[1]
Hansen is the daughter of Dr Flemming Hansen (died 2003) and his wife Aase Riegels Borch.[2] She trained as an actress at Denmark's Statens Teaterskole, and has appeared on stage at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen.[3]
From 1983 to 1993, she was married to actor and director Gerz Feigenberg; the marriage ended in divorce. She subsequently married Laws Michael Christiansen; that marriage also ended in divorce. She subsequently had a relationship with actor Viggo Sommer,[4] which ended amicably in 2017. Following their break-up, Sommer said that the main problem was that "Benner", as he called Hansen, was living in Copenhagen while he was living in Aarhus.[5]
In 2013, she played her first major English-language screen role when she appeared as the Baroness in a new BBC adaptation of The Lady Vanishes.[6] In 2016 she won the Reumert Award for Best Actress.[7]
Performances
Theatre
- My Fair Lady (1986)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1991)
- Kjartan and Gudrun (1993)
- Antony and Cleopatra (2001)
Television
Films
- Baby Doll (1988)
- Daisy Diamond (2007)
- Denmark (2019)
Notes and References
- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/nothing-like-a-dane-new-thriller-borgen-centres-on-a-trailblazing-female-politician-6285065.html "Nothing like a Dane: New thriller Borgen centres on a trailblazing female politician", The Independent, 5 January 2012
- http://www.danskefilm.dk/index2.html Danish Film Database (Danish)
- Book: Michael Robinson. An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005: The plays. 2008. MHRA. 978-0-947623-82-1. 770–.
- http://www.bt.dk/kvinder.bt.dk/benedikte-hansen-det-er-raedselsfuldt-at-blive-skilt "Benedikte Hansen: Det er rædselsfuldt at blive skilt", BT, 19 September 2012
- Web site: Viggo Sommer og Benedikte Hansen: Forholdet forbi . Seoghoer.dk. 20 February 2017. da. Camilla Maria Johansen. 13 March 2019.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/theladyvanishes.html BBC - Media Centre, "Cast announced for Fiona Seres’s adaptation of The Lady Vanishes for BBC One", 17 August 2012
- Web site: De blev hædret ved Årets Reumert 2016. 10 June 2016. Årets Reumert. Danish. 14 June 2016. 18 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190218081746/http://www.aaretsreumert.dk/de-blev-h%C3%A6dret-ved-%C3%A5rets-reumert-2016. dead.