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Susanne Bier

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Susanne Bier

Born Apr 15, 1960 · 66 years33 titles 23 movies · 10 TV
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Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010), the later of which earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), Love Is All You Need (2012), Serena (2014), and Bird Box(2018). She directed the BBC One / AMC miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on television, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. She also directed the HBO psychological miniseries The Undoing (2020), the Showtime historical anthology series The First Lady (2022), and the Netflix mystery series, The Perfect Couple (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Susanne Bier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

수잔 비에르 · Susanne Bier · سوزان بيير

Born

Apr 15, 1960

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

7

Acting credits

21

Directing

9

Writing

10

Other crew

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Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

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