Benedikte Hansen

Benedikte Hansen
Born	(1958-09-24) 24 September 1958 (age 66)
Nationality	Danish
Education	Denmark's Statens Teaterskole
Occupation	actress
Known for	her role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen
Notable work	see Performances
Spouse(s)	Gerz Feigenberg ​ ​ (m. 1983; div. 1993)​ , Laws Michael Christiansen (div)
Partner	Viggo Sommer (ended 2017)

Benedikte Hansen (born 24 September 1958) is a Danish actress, best known for her role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen.[1]

Biography

Hansen was born on 24 September 1958, to 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

• Gøngehøvdingen (1992)
• Bryggeren (1997)
• Unit 1 (2000–2004)
• Forestillinger (2007)
• Album (2008)
• The Killing II (2009)
• Borgen (2010–2013)
• Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent (2011)
• The Lady Vanishes (2013)
• Tvillingerne & Julemanden (2013)
• Badehotellet (2014-2016)
• Tomgang (2015)

Films

• Baby Doll (1988)
• Daisy Diamond (2007)
• Denmark (2019)

References

1. "Nothing like a Dane: New thriller Borgen centres on a trailblazing female politician", The Independent, 5 January 2012. Accessed 26 June 2013
2. Danish Film Database (Danish). Accessed 26 March 2013
3. Michael Robinson (2008). An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005: The plays. MHRA. pp. 770–. ISBN 978-0-947623-82-1.
4. "Benedikte Hansen: Det er rædselsfuldt at blive skilt", BT, 19 September 2012 Archived September 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Danish). Accessed 26 March 2013
5. Camilla Maria Johansen (20 February 2017). "Viggo Sommer og Benedikte Hansen: Forholdet forbi". Seoghoer.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
6. BBC - Media Centre, "Cast announced for Fiona Seres’s adaptation of The Lady Vanishes for BBC One", 17 August 2012. Accessed 26 March 2013
7. "De blev hædret ved Årets Reumert 2016" (in Danish). Årets Reumert. 10 June 2016. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2016.

External links

• Benedikte Hansen at IMDb