Sidse Babett Knudsen

The Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen transmits naturalness, her smile is captivating, and invites you to trust her. This has helped her to compose roles of a fighting woman who moves with determination, which is great when she is aiming for just causes, but she can also get involved in dubious companies, giving the viewer a strange feeling, as if she had disappointed in someone with such wonderful qualities.

Sidse Babett was born in Copenhagen in 1968, her father was a photographer and her mother a teacher. Since her parents were cooperating, she saw the world since she was little, specifically she spent her childhood in Tanzania, sharing a classroom with African children at the school where her mother taught. She but she would be educated mostly in Europe. To train as an actor, she went to Paris, France, and received classes at the Jacques Lecoq theater school and at the Théâtre de l’Ombre. With cosmopolitan concerns, she also spent time in the New York Big Apple. At this time, she combined experimental theater with some television incursion in Denmark, such as her role as Mercedes in the Juletestamentet series in 1995. This made it easier for her to jump to the cinema two years later with Let’s Get Lost ., a tragicomedy based largely on acting, which gave him a Bodil award, his reputation was beginning to become solid.

In 1999 he signed up for a title of the Dogma movement, Mifune , where he was directed by his compatriot Søren Kragh-Jacobsen . In 2006 he is in another Danish title of some importance, After the Wedding , directed by Susanne Bier . And as a curiosity, she pointed out her presence in a 2004 family film that has the curious title of El fakir de Bilbao , where she is the mother of two twin boys.

But with the paths of a discreet and dignified career, it is clear that there is a before and after 2010, the year in which the Borgen television series began , a sort of The West Wing of the White House.the Danish way, with the actress embodying a politician from a minority party, whom the pacts after disputed elections place in the position of Prime Minister of Denmark; His efforts to be faithful to his ideals, while agreeing with each other, following the advice of his press officer, and trying to reconcile work with family life, resulted in a work with impact, which for many provided the model of what was a vocational politician who did not renounce his principles and sought to serve his people, and therefore, the entire world. The series lasted three seasons, and allowed Sidse Babett the international jump.

The actress was fluent in French and English, but it was thanks to her first language that she had a juicy supporting role in The Judge , which earned her a César Award, as well as the leading role in a medical tape, The Brest Doctor , where she faces nothing less than the all-powerful pharmaceutical industry, which is marketing a drug with devastating side effects, without doing anything to change things.

Of course, Hollywood has had its eye on the actress, and together with Tom Hanks she has made two films, Waiting for the King and Inferno , and in both she was the actor’s love interest to a lesser or greater extent, within a larger plot and with more intricacies, a look at business in Arabia in the first case, the adaptation of a puerile best-seller by Dan Brown in the other.

The actress does not give up working in her country, as demonstrated by the expensive and irregular period series 1864 , released on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the confrontation between the Danes and the Prussians of the Austro-Hungarian empire, “the war that changed our identity as a nation”. , according to the actress. But the American call is strong, and now she’s just making her debut on the HBO series Westworld as an ambitious robotic theme park entrepreneur in the reimagining of Michael Crichton ‘s popular novel .

Although she never talks about her private life, it seems that she has had a partner for years, who has given her a son who must now be around 14 years old.