Benedikte Hansen

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. 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,[3] 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.[4]

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.[5] In 2016 she won the Reumert prize for Best leading actress.[6]

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)

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. "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
  4. Camilla Maria Johansen (20 February 2017). "Viggo Sommer og Benedikte Hansen: Forholdet forbi". Seoghoer.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. BBC - Media Centre, "Cast announced for Fiona Seres’s adaptation of The Lady Vanishes for BBC One", 17 August 2012. Accessed 26 March 2013
  6. "De blev hædret ved Årets Reumert 2016" (in Danish). Årets Reumert. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
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