Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. In addition to performances in the theater, she has appeared in more than a dozen film and TV productions since the mid- 2000s. Notoriety she gained among other things by the recurring role of Katrine Fønsmark in the Danish television series Borgen - Dangerous cliques (since 2010).

• 3.1 Movies
• 3.2 TV series

Biography

Education and theater work

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen grew up as the youngest of three daughters of a couple of doctors in Birkerød, on the Danish island of Zealand, on. With Acting in contact until she came out of school, as she became a member of the Væksthuset (about Eng.: " greenhouse ") of Gladsaxe Theatre in Buddinge was. There, singing, dance and drama classes for interested people between 18 and 23 was offered. Then Hjort Sørensen graduated to 2007 studied acting at the National Theatre School in Copenhagen.

Appeared in 2007 Hjort Sørensen in the Danish Musical mod mig på Cassiopeia at Nørrebro Teater. Only a few months after the end of her acting training, she made ​​her professional stage debut at Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen the 1996 Broadway version of the musical Chicago with Jesper Asholt. The main role of Roxie Hart earned her first critical acclaim and was with more than 100,000 tickets sold and the biggest box office hit of the year for the playhouse. Then Hjort Sørensen appeared in other musicals and theater productions including at the Gladsaxe Teater ( Cabaret ) and at Grønnegårds Teatret ( The Winter's Tale ). As of end of February 2008, she participated in the English production of Chicago in London's Cambridge Theatre for three months. In the same year she won the Newcomer Award at the ceremony of the Danish Reumert Theatre Prize.

Film and television roles

In addition to her work in the theater took over Hjort Sørensen Danish roles in film and television productions. During her acting training they had participated in several short films and her television debut with a small role in an episode of The Eagle - The completed trace of the crime ( 2005). Your feature film debut Hjort Sørensen with a small part in Kasper Barfoeds Thriller Nikolaj Lie Kaas The candidate with the title role. Again next Kaas saw them in the female lead role in Villum Tomas Jensen's film comedy The End of the World ( 2009). In the black-humored adventure film Hjort Sørensen played the attractive but not very competent assistant to a psychiatrist ( Kaas ) that are involved in the hunt for an eternal youth promising flower in Indonesia. The presentation of Beate earned her nominations for the Danish film awards Robert and Zulu Award.

An international television audience was Hjort Sørensen from 2010 by one of the lead roles in the series designed by Adam Price Polit Borgen - Dangerous cliques known. In the internationally acclaimed and award-winning DR- production, she took over the role of the ambitious TV journalist and presenter Katrine Fønsmark associated with the spin -Doctor (played by Pilou Asbæk ) of the newly elected Danish Prime Minister ( Sidse Babette Knudsen ) is a friend. Towards the end of the first season announces Hjort Sørensen figure their work at the television station to be abused for its own political vendetta in the second season of a newspaper editor (Peter Mygind ). The Frankfurter Rundschau characterized Katrine Fønsmark as " moral Rigoristin, which is driven by self-righteous ambition", while the British daily The Independent for BBC television broadcast of Borgen - Dangerous cliques Hjort Sørensen dedicated a title cover. In preparation for the role, the actress had accompanied a Danish journalist at work and the award-winning American actress Allison Janney in the political series The West Wing - studied in the center of power.

2011 Hjort Sørensen played the title role in Linda Wendel's little-noticed feature film Julie. In the modernized variant Miss Julie, she appeared as a tennis player who enters an affair with her coach. In the same year Hjort Sørensen was awarded the worth 15,000 DKK The price of the Danish HKH Prinsgemalens Fund, which is awarded to people who have enhanced the reputation of Denmark in culture, economics or science. 2012 undertook Bille August Hjort Sørensen as heroine for his biopic Marie Krøyer in which they can be seen as the same Danish painter and architect ( 1867-1940 ).

Private life

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen lives in Copenhagen Vesterbro district, and is in a relationship with the four- year-older Danish castmates Christian Tafdrup. Previously, she led a relationship with the freelance theater director and actor Heinrich Christensen.

Theater and shows ( selection)

• 2007: mod ​​mig på Cassiopeia ( Nørrebro Teater )
• 2007: Chicago (Det Ny Teater, Copenhagen - Role: Roxie Hart)
• 2008: Free Øl ( Rønne Theatre, Rønne )

Filmography

Movies

• 2006: Tre somre (Short Film )
• 2007: Canoe ( short film )
• 2007: Knusper (Short Film )
• 2008: Alliancen (Short Film )
• 2008: Begravelsen (Short Film )
• 2008: The candidate ( candidates)
• 2008: Anja & Viktor - I medgang above modgang
• 2009: The end of the world ( Ved verdens end )
• 2010: The Truth about Men ( Sandheden om mænd )
• 2011: Julie
• 2012: Marie Krøyer

TV series

• 2005: The Eagles - The trace of the crime ( Ørnen, a sequence )
• 2008: Maj & Charlie ( one episode)
• Since 2010: Borgen - Dangerous cliques (30 episodes)

Awards

• 2008: Reumert talent price
• 2010: Robert nomination for The End of the World ( Best Actress )
• 2010: Zulu Award nomination for The End of the World ( Best Actress )
• 2011: Prize of the Danish HKH Prinsgemalens Fund