Susanne Bier

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Biography

Danish artist, born 1960

  • Primary profession
  • Director·producer·writer
  • Country
  • Denmark
  • Nationality
  • Danish
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 15 April 1960
  • Place of birth
  • Copenhagen
  • Children
  • Gabriel Bier Gislason
  • Spouses
  • Jesper Winge Leisner·Philip Zandén
  • Education
  • Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design·National Film School of Denmark
  • Knows language
  • English language·Danish language

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Books

Awards

Trivia

Studied arts at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and architecture at the Architectural Association in London.

Graduated from the Danish School of Film in Copenhagen.

Born to Rudolf Salomon Bier (born in 1930) and his wife Hennie Jonas (born in 1936).

Has two children, Gabriel (born in 1989) and Alice Esther (born in 1995).

Ex-sister-in-law of Jessica Zandn.

Replaced Darren Aronofsky as the director of Serena .

For years, she was developing a romantic comedy entitled Lost for Words, that was set to star Hugh Grant, but the project was eventually scrapped.

First, and to date only, female Danish director to have directed two movies nominated for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the Academy Awards.

Quotes

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

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