23 Notable alumni of Danish National School of Performing Arts
Updated: May 28, 2026 EliteDegrees
Danish National School of Performing Arts is ranked #8,001 in the world and #23 in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from Danish National School of Performing Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Danish National School of Performing Arts won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Stine Fischer Christensen
1985-. (aged 41)
film actor
actor
screenwriter
Stine Fischer Christensen is a Danish actress. She has appeared in more than fifteen films since 1997. For her performance as Anna Louisa Hansson in After the Wedding she won the Bodil and Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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2. Charlotte Sieling
1960-. (aged 66)
screenwriter
film director
voice actor
actor
film actor
Charlotte Sieling is a Danish actress and film director. She began her career as an actress in the mid-1980s. In the 2000s, she turned to film directing, working on a number of successful DR TV series such as the Emmy-winning Unit One, The Killing, The Bridge and the BAFTA-winning Borgen. She had her feature film debut with Above the Street,...
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3. Ole Lemmeke
1959-. (aged 67)
voice actor
actor
Ole Lemmeke is a Danish actor. He is known for his work in Besat, Magnetisøren's femte vinter and Den russiske sangerinde.
4. Jessica Dinnage
1993-. (aged 33)
actor
Jessica Dinnage is a Danish actress. She is best known for her role as Lea in Netflix's TV series The Rain. In 2019, Dinnage won a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Danish Film Academy Robert Awards for her performance as Iben in the 2018 film The Guilty.
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5. Morten Suurballe
1955-. (aged 71)
actor
television actor
voice actor
Morten Sasse Suurballe is a Danish actor, best known for playing Detective Chief Inspector Lennart Brix in the three television series The Killing in which he played alongside Sofie Gråbøl.
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6. Lene Maria Christensen
1972-. (aged 54)
voice actor
actor
Lene Maria Christensen is a Danish actress. She is best known for her roles in both television and film, including the series Hotellet, Forsvar and Arvingerne.
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7. Vic Carmen Sonne
1994-. (aged 32)
actor
Victoria "Vic" Carmen Sonne is a Danish actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Winter Brothers (2017), Holiday (2018), Godland (2022), and The Girl with the Needle (2024). She has won two Bodil Awards and two Robert Awards.
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8. Lars Bom
1961-. (aged 65)
voice actor
actor
Lars Bom is a Danish actor, educated at The Danish National School of Theatre in 1985. Lars Bom has worked in various roles in Theatre, Film and Television, and won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival in 1999, for his starring role in the cyberpunk-thriller Skyggen (1998). However, he is best known for his roles in Strisser på...
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9. Marie Tourell Søderberg
1988-. (aged 38)
writer
voice actor
actor
film actor
Marie Tourell Søderberg is an actress known for 1864 (2014) and Itsi Bitsi (2015). She graduated from Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York in 2007 and finished her education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in June 2012.
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10. Ulrich Thomsen
1963-. (aged 63)
film producer
film actor
film director
television actor
actor
Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016).
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11. Trine Dyrholm
1972-. (aged 54)
songwriter
voice actor
singer
actor
Trine Dyrholm is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best...
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12. Danica Curcic
1985-. (aged 41)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Danica Curcic ) (born 27 August 1985 in Belgrade) is a Serbian-Danish actress.
13. Jakob Cedergren
1973-. (aged 53)
stage actor
film actor
Jakob Cedergren is a Swedish and Danish actor who has appeared in films, television and theatre. He has starred in several cinema productions, including Stealing Rembrandt, Dark Horse, Rage, Timetrip – Der Fluch der Wikinger-Hexe and Submarino. However, he became best known for his roles in the Scandinavian television series Those Who Kill and The Sandhamn Murders.
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14. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
1984-. (aged 42)
film actor
television actor
voice actor
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard is a Danish actor. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts and has appeared in films and television series such as A Royal Affair (2012), The Legacy (2014–2017), Summer of '92 (2015), Land of Mine (2015), Walk with Me (2016), A Perfectly Normal Family (2020), The Chestnut Man (2021), and Borgen (2022). He played...
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15. Nicolas Bro
1972-. (aged 54)
voice actor
actor
Nicolas Bro is a Danish actor of stage and screen, and a playwright. He played a German soldier in Steven Spielberg's 2011 film War Horse. On television, he is known for his role as Thomas Buch in the TV series The Killing (2009), as Ditlev Gothardt Monrad in 1864 (2014), and as Freddie in The Bridge (2015). He appears as...
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16. Anette Støvelbæk
1967-. (aged 59)
voice actor
actor
Anette Støvelbæk is a Danish actress. She was born in Copenhagen and is married to actor Lars Mikkelsen.
17. Esben Smed
1984-. (aged 42)
film actor
actor
voice actor
Esben Smed is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Sommeren '92 (2015), A Fortunate Man (2018), and Daniel (2019), as well as the television series Follow the Money (2016–2019).
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18. Dejan Čukić
1966-. (aged 60)
actor
television actor
screenwriter
television director
film actor
Dejan Čukić is a Montenegrin-Danish actor. He appeared in the Wallander TV film series as Lars in The Ghost, based on the novel by Henning Mankell. He also played Cardinal Giulano della Rovere in the TV drama series Borgia.
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19. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
1982-. (aged 44)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after visiting London while at school and watching the West End production of the musical Chicago. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting...
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20. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
1970-. (aged 56)
actor
television actor
screenwriter
film actor
stage actor
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. His breakthrough role was in Denmark with the film Nightwatch in 1994. He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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21. Lars Mikkelsen
1964-. (aged 62)
video game actor
street artist
film actor
television actor
mime artist
Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. He is known for his roles as Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the Danish police procedural The Killing, the character Charles Augustus Magnussen in the third series of the BBC programme Sherlock, fictional Russian president Viktor Petrov in the American political thriller TV series House of Cards, mage Stregobor on the...
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22. Pilou Asbæk
1982-. (aged 44)
voice actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk is a Danish actor, best known for his role as troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish television political drama Borgen, and as Euron Greyjoy in the television series Game of Thrones.
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23. Claes Bang
1967-. (aged 59)
stage actor
television actor
voice actor
actor
film actor
Claes Kasper Bang is a Danish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading role of Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and for the role of Fjölnir in Robert Eggers's 2022 film The Northman. In 2019, he played the role of Sasha Mann for...
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