- Born
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- 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, and for her role as Theresa Cullen in the HBO science fiction-Western television series Westworld.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ParentsSusanne Andersen
- Although she was educated in Paris and speaks French, she wasn't cast in a French film production until 20 years after she completed her education. However, she was cast after the producers saw her work in the Danish TV series Borgen (2010).
- In 2014, she was knighted as Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, which recognizes significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields.
- Has worked with Tom Hanks twice, within two years; A Hologram for the King (2016) and Inferno (2016).
- For her performance in Courted (2015), the Danish Knudsen became one of the fifth non-French winner of the Best Supporting Actress César. The other 4 are, in chronological order: the Italian Virna Lisi in Queen Margot (1994), the Belgian Cécile de France in Russian Dolls (2005), the Spanish Carmen Maura in The Women on the 6th Floor (2010) and the American Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014).
- She has one son named Louis Ray Knudsen, born in 2004 as a single mother.
- In Denmark we are all Viking-ish.
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