
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Sidse Babett Knudsen (born 22 November 1968) 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.823 |
Birthday | 1968-11-22 |
Place of Birth | København, Danmark |
Also Known As | 시세 바베트 크누센, シセ・バベット・クヌッセン, Сідсе Бабетт Кнудсен, سیده بابد کنودسن, سیده بَبِد نودسن, |

1999

Mifune
7/63
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back...
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Mifune

2006

After the Wedding
7.1/434
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
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After the Wedding

2004

Fakiren fra Bilbao
5.1/14
When two children move into an old house with their mother they find magical mystery involving a lively spirit and a precious diamond.
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Fakiren fra Bilbao

2023

Oh My Goodness!
5.2/40
Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that...
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Oh My Goodness!

2010

Therapy
5.2/16
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basem...
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Therapy

2009

Above the Street, Below the Water
4.8/6
This is the day when the lives of an intertwined group of people take a new direction. Everything they have taken for granted starts to change. While...
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Above the Street, Below the Water

2008

Take the Trash
6.795/39
Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and hav...
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Take the Trash

2001

Chop Chop
4.8/13
Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that D...
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Chop Chop

2002

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
7.5/26
When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of...
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The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

2003

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
4.7/11
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she...
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

2007

With Your Permission
5.7/10
Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente...
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With Your Permission

2024

Sons
6.8/28
Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works...
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Sons

2023

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction
6.2/106
When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal — and unexpected roman...
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Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction

2014

Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama
0/0
A documentary that investigates the phenomenon of Scandinavian crime drama and its worldwide success.
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Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama

2009

The Apple & The Worm
6.9/6
Torben is a shiny young apple with a dream: making it to the bright lights of the supermarket fruit section. But his dream is shattered one sunny morn...
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The Apple & The Worm

2004

Villa Paranoia
5.9/7
Anna, a young and aspiring actress who has not had much success, offers to care for the father of Jorgen, who has been burdened with the responsibilit...
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Villa Paranoia

1999

The One and Only
6.6/47
When kitchen fitter Niller comes to install Sus's new suite, their immediate attraction to one another proves a sweet escape from both of their proble...
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The One and Only

1997

Let's Get Lost
4.7/9
Three friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money fo...
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Let's Get Lost

2001

Mona's World
5/11
Mona, a single girl in her thirties, leads a life filled with adventure and romance. In her dreams that is. But an ordinary visit to the bank is about...
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Mona's World

2012

Almost Perfect
5.615/26
Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymo...
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Almost Perfect

2023

WOACA
0/0
A woman's skin-care routine ceases to be the bulwark she’d hoped.
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WOACA

1995

Debut
0/0
The insecure apprentice waiter, Axel, is reprimanded by the old master, Fendrup, for his unpolished serving technique: 'It is necessary to dare to giv...
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Debut

2000

Miracle
5.3/13
What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy i...
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Miracle

2000

Max
4.2/6
Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband...
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Max

2014

The Duke of Burgundy
6.4/335
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and s...
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The Duke of Burgundy

2024

An Ordinary Case
6.653/101
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, M...
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An Ordinary Case

2023

Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard
8/1
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and director Bille August showcase their meticulous attention to the sets and costumes of the "Ehrengard" film adaptatio...
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Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard

2006

Søren Østergaards 'internationale' tivoli varieté
5.5/2
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2023

Club Zero
5.636/66
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that event...
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Club Zero

2014

Speed Walking
6.7/41
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy...
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Speed Walking

2016

A Hologram for the King
5.8/1148
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Ea...
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A Hologram for the King

2016

Inferno
6.074/6282
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
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Inferno

2015

Courted
6.1/196
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past...
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Courted

2015

Vitello Digs a Hole
6.5/2
Can you catch a friend in a trap? Vitello is bored, he has no one to play with. His mother tells him to go outside and look for a new friend. He meets...
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Vitello Digs a Hole

2014

1864: Brødre i krig
6.5/6
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
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The Great Arch
0/0
The story of Otto von Spreckelsen, a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen who surprised the world when he won an open- call competition laun...
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13 Days, 13 Nights: In the Hell of Kabul
0/0
Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are marching on the capital to seize power. Amid the c...
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2016

150 Milligrams
6.7/123
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She...
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150 Milligrams

2017

The Eternal Road
6.875/40
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist...
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The Eternal Road

1997

Fanny Farveløs
7/1
Fanny is a little pale faced girl with tangled hair. She wakes one miserable day to find she has 'fake' measles. Reluctantly she is sent to a nurse an...
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Fanny Farveløs

2003

Dogville: The Pilot
5.5/13
Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-...
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Dogville: The Pilot

1998

Motello
0/0
It all begins when ex-boxer and motel owner Ford Fordson wants to get a little workout Rocky-style in the kitchen meat locker. But the door falls shut...
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Motello

2004

Bernie and Bingo
2/1
A love story featuring Bernie the bear and Bingo the penguin with special Guest Stars: Giraffo & Marius the Drooler.
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Bernie and Bingo

1996

Charlot og Charlotte
4/3
Cool city girl Charlot ends up with lonely naive country girl Charlotte on a road trip together across Denmark. On their trip to Skagen on the top of...
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Charlot og Charlotte

2019

The Translators
6.481/495
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
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The Translators

1997

A Quiet Death
4/1
Tom lives alone and works for the council, reporting empty apartments. One day, he ignores the rules and enters a supposedly empty apartment. His life...
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A Quiet Death

2018

In Fabric
5.666/325
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes...
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In Fabric

1997

Thérapie russe
0/0
How will Charles manage to become a man again now that his wife has left him, that he can't even roll a simple joint and that even his cleaner thinks...
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Thérapie russe

2018

Vitello
6/1
Vitello is brimming with energy and has good friends in Max and Hasse, but misses having a father in his life, so he decides to go off in search of on...
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Vitello

2020

The Exception
5.3/14
When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if t...
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The Exception

2020

Wildland
5.7/51
Following a car accident, which kills her mother, 17-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown sons. The home is filled with...
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Wildland

2018

Holly på Sommerøen
0/0
Holly is used to taking care of herself, because her mother and father are almost never at home. They work all the time, even in the summer, so Holly...
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Holly på Sommerøen

2020

Limbo
6.9/109
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who...
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Limbo

2019

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
6.527/112
When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kr...
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

2019

Captain Bimse
5.2/5
7-year-old Anna is having trouble sleeping at night. She accidentally left her favourite doll, Sophie, at her family's holiday home, and Anna's parent...
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Captain Bimse

2002

Klonkadonka!
4/1
Molly's best friend, Effie, doesn't want anything more to do with her and has hooked up instead with the hip girls in their class. At first, Molly is...
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Klonkadonka!

2020

The Idiots Who Started The Party
6/1
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The I...
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