Sidse Babett Knudsen
Biography
Sidse Babett Knudsen is a Danish actress who works in theatre, television, and film. Knudsen made her screen debut in the 1997 improvisational comedy Let's Get Lost, for which she received both the Robert and Bodil awards for Best Actress.
Following the critical success of her debut, Knudsen has been considered one of the top Danish actresses of her generation. In 2000, she again won both best actress awards for the comedy romance Den Eneste Ene (English title: The One and Only). In 2016, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Courted (L'Hermine). Knudsen has also received award nominations for her roles in Monas Verden (Mona's World) and Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding).
Knudsen achieved international recognition for her leading role as fictional Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish TV series Borgen.
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Acting History
2025
The Family Plan 2 as Svetlana Romanova
2025The Great Arch as Liv von Spreckelsen
202513 Days, 13 Nights: In the Hell of Kabul as Kate
2025Prime Target as Professor Andrea Lavin
2024An Ordinary Case as Maître Annie Debret
2024Sons as Eva Hansen
2024Danske tv-seriers bedste as Sig selv
2023Club Zero as Miss Dorset
2023Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard as Self
2023Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction as The Grand Duchess
2023WOACA as WOACA
2023Agent as Sidse Babett Knudsen
2023Oh My Goodness! as Mère Joséphine de la Rédemption
2022Borgen - Power & Glory as Birgitte Nyborg
2020Roadkill as Madeleine Halle
2020The Idiots Who Started The Party as Sig selv
2020Limbo as Helga
2020Ted Lasso as Bridget (voice)
2020The Exception as Anne-Lise
2020Wildland as Bodil
2019The Translators as Helene Tuxen
2019The Accident as Harriet Paulsen
2019The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle as Ohlmann
2019Captain Bimse as Sophie
2018In Fabric as Jill
201850 Nuances de Grecs as Freya
2018Holly på Sommerøen as Charlotte skovmyre
2018Vitello as Vitello's Mother (voice)
2017Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Jill
2017The Eternal Road as Sara
2016150 Milligrams as Dr Irène Frachon, pulmonologist
2016Inferno as Elizabeth Sinskey
2016Westworld as Theresa Cullen
2016A Hologram for the King as Hanne
2015Courted as Ditte Lorensen-Coteret
2015Vitello Digs a Hole as Mother (voice)
2014The Duke of Burgundy as Cynthia
20141864: Brødre i krig as Johanne L. Heiberg
20141864 as Johanne Louise Heiberg
2014Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama as Self
2014Speed Walking as Lizzi
2012Almost Perfect as Sandra
2010Borgen as Birgitte Nyborg
2010ZULU Comedy Galla as Vært
2010ZULU Comedy Galla as Sidse Babett Knudsen
2010Therapy as Puk
2009The Apple & The Worm as Sylvia (voice)
2009Above the Street, Below the Water as Anne
2008Take the Trash as Lotte
2007With Your Permission as Bente
2006Søren Østergaards 'internationale' tivoli varieté
2006After the Wedding as Helene
2004Fakiren fra Bilbao as Louise
2004Bernie and Bingo as Bingo, The Penguin
2004Villa Paranoia as Olga Holmgård
2004Proof as Nina Kutpreka
2003Dogville: The Pilot as Grace
2003Old, New, Borrowed and Blue as Katrine
2002The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear as Woman (voice)
2002Klonkadonka! as Molly
2001Chop Chop as Rita
2001Mona's World as Mona
2000Miracle as Mona Pedersen
2000Max as Sarah 'Max' Engell
1999The One and Only as Sus
1999Mifune as Bibi
1998Motello as Julie
1997Thérapie russe as Mette
1997Let's Get Lost as Julie
1997A Quiet Death as Sally
1997Taxa as Milla
1997Fanny Farveløs as Mother
1997Strisser på Samsø as Hanne Jensen
1996Charlot og Charlotte as Helle, gøgler
1996Charlot og Charlotte as Helle
1995Juletestamentet as Mercedes
1995Debut
1989The Simpsons as a Danish Woman (voice)
—Good Mothers as Anne Sofie