Benedikte Hansen

Benedikte Hansen
Born (1958-09-24) 24 September 1958 (age 66)
NationalityDanish
EducationDenmark's Statens Teaterskole
Occupationactress
Known forher role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen
Notable worksee Performances
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1983; div. 1993)​
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Laws Michael Christiansen (div)
PartnerViggo Sommer (ended 2017)
Parents
  • Dr Flemming Hansen (father)
  • Aase Riegels Borch (mother)

Benedikte Hansen (born 24 September 1958) is a Danish actress, best known to international audiences for her role as Hanne Holm in the television series Borgen.[1]

Hansen is the daughter of Dr Flemming Hansen (died 2003) and his wife Aase Riegels Borch.[2] She trained as an actress at Denmark's Statens Teaterskole, and has appeared on stage at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen.[3]

From 1983 to 1993, she was married to actor and director Gerz Feigenberg; the marriage ended in divorce. She subsequently married Laws Michael Christiansen; that marriage also ended in divorce. She subsequently had a relationship with actor Viggo Sommer,[4] which ended amicably in 2017. Following their break-up, Sommer said that the main problem was that "Benner", as he called Hansen, was living in Copenhagen while he was living in Aarhus.[5]

In 2013, she played her first major English-language screen role when she appeared as the Baroness in a new BBC adaptation of The Lady Vanishes.[6] In 2016 she won the Reumert Award for Best Actress.[7]

  1. ^ "Nothing like a Dane: New thriller Borgen centres on a trailblazing female politician", The Independent, 5 January 2012. Accessed 26 June 2013
  2. ^ Danish Film Database (Danish). Accessed 26 March 2013
  3. ^ Michael Robinson (2008). An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005: The plays. MHRA. pp. 770–. ISBN 978-0-947623-82-1.
  4. ^ "Benedikte Hansen: Det er rædselsfuldt at blive skilt", BT, 19 September 2012 Archived September 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Danish). Accessed 26 March 2013
  5. ^ Camilla Maria Johansen (20 February 2017). "Viggo Sommer og Benedikte Hansen: Forholdet forbi". Seoghoer.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  6. ^ BBC - Media Centre, "Cast announced for Fiona Seres’s adaptation of The Lady Vanishes for BBC One", 17 August 2012. Accessed 26 March 2013
  7. ^ "De blev hædret ved Årets Reumert 2016" (in Danish). Årets Reumert. 10 June 2016. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2016.