Connie Nielsen
Connie Nielsen
Connie Inge-Lise Nielsenis a Danish actress whose first major role in an English language film was a supporting role in The Devil's Advocate; Nielsen later gained international attention for her role in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Her films include Mission to Mars, One Hour Photo, Basic, The Hunted, The Ice Harvestand Nymphomaniac. She starred as Meredith Kane on the Starz TV series Bossand was a lead character in the second season of The Following. She is set to play Queen Hippolyta...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 July 1965
CityFrederikshavn, Denmark
CountryDenmark
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.
I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.