Iben Hjejle
Born 22/03/1971
(53 years old)
Kodaň, Denmark
Biography
Danish actress Iben Hjejle had a breakthrough U.S. role in the film High Fidelity (2000) after acclaimed turns in the Denmark-filmed productions Portland (1996) and Mifune (1999). Hjejle, who lived in Massachusetts as a teenager, studied acting at The National Theatre School of Denmark, and teamed up with director Neals Arden-Oplev in the short film “Naked” (1991). Five years later, he cast her in Portland, marking her feature film debut as a woman abused by her lover in this nihilistic look at the human condition. She followed up with a co-starring turn in Mifune, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's feature, the third Dogme ’95 production. Here she gave a winningly feisty performance as an on-the-run prostitute who takes a job as a housekeeper for an odd family in an attempt to start a new life.
Director Stephen Frears, impressed with Hjejle's work, approached the actress about making her American film debut and subsequently cast her in the Chicago-set reworking of High Fidelity, Nick Hornsby's seminal novel about a pop music-obsessed thirtysomething man's relationship problems. John Cusack starred as the protagonist Rob and Hjejle played Laura, his live-in girlfriend and the latest in a line of women to break his heart. Since then Hjejle has starred in The Emperor's New Clothes and Dreaming of Julia, Flickering Lights in 2003 and Edward Zwick’s Defiance.
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Actress
Movies | |
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2023 |
Maret |
2022 |
Mugge & hans mærkelige hjerne |
2021 |
A Beautiful Curse |
2019 |
The Street Party |
2015 |
Klown Forever |
2013 |
Eskil & Trinidad |
2012 |
Fuck up! |
2011 |
Stockholm East |
2010 |
Klown |
Rosa Morena |
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2009 |
Chéri |
The Eclipse |
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The Escape |
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2008 |
Defiance |
Journey to Saturn |
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2006 |
Han, hun og Strindberg |
The Boss of It All |
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2004 |
Monsterthursday |
Strings |
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The Collector |
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The Good Cop |
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2003 |
Dreaming of Julia |
Sweet Dreams |
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The Bouncer |
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2002 |
Godt nytår, Danmark (TV movie) |
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II |
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2001 |
Emperor's New Clothes, The |
The Marriage of Gustav III (TV movie) |
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2000 |
Flickering Lights |
High Fidelity |
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1999 |
Mifune's Last Song |
Possessed |
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1997 |
Jacobs liste (TV movie) |
1996 |
Mors dag (TV movie) |
Portland |
Documentaries | |
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2014 |
Freak Out |
2003 |
Hjælp krigens ofre (TV movie) |
2001 |
Stjerner i manegen (TV movie) |
Short | |
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2019 |
Embraces & the Touch of Skin |
2014 |
Vokseværk |
2013 |
Every Child is Made of Fire |
2007 |
Boy Meets Girl |
2003 |
Annas dag |
2000 |
Bånd på livet (TV movie) |
1997 |
Sinan's Wedding |
1992 |
Nøgen |
Performer
Shows | |
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2022 |
All Exclusive |
2004 |
Bodilfesten 2004 |
2001 |
Viva |
1992 |
Gomorron |
Screenwriter
Series | |
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2001 |
Løjserne |