Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) 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 watching the West End production of the musical

Chicago while at school. She graduated from the Danish National School

of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the

television series The Eagle in 2005. She followed this by playing

Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of Chicago, and later on the

West End. Sørensen's breakthrough role was as journalist Katrine

Fønsmark in the television political drama Borgen

(2010â€"2013).Sørensen was born in Hillerød on 16 January 1982. She

grew up in Birkerød. Both her parents are doctors and she has two

elder sisters. Her early education was at the Bistrup School in

Birkerød and Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup. At the latter, she was

the student council chairman and editor of the school magazine.

Sørensen decided in her early teens not to follow her parents'

footsteps in pursuing a career in medicine after work experience with

her mother at a geriatrics ward. She stated, 'Being met with that

number of people who can no longer go to the bathroom or eat by

themselves, it was traumatising. I lived too much with their

misery.'While on a school trip to London at the age of 19, she watched

the West End production of the musical Chicago which motivated her to

become an actress. Sørensen spoke of the experience in an interview

for The Guardian, "It was so amazing and sexy, and I sat there

thinking, 'I want to be on that stage one day.'". Her motivation was

solidified by her participation in a mini-musical school organised by

the Gladsaxe Theatre which provided a six month introduction to

musical theatre. She continued her studies at the Danish National

School of Performing Arts, during which time Sørensen made her acting

debut in 2005 as a receptionist on the television series The Eagle.

The school forbid its students from having jobs so Sørensen feigned

illness to appear on the television show. Two years later she played

the lead role of Roxie Hart in the 2007 production of Chicago at the

Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen. The musical was critically acclaimed and

became the highest grossing Danish theatre production of the year. For

her performance she received a Reumert prize. Sørensen then reprised

the role in the West End production in 2008 at the Cambridge

Theatre.In 2010, she made her breakthrough by playing the idealistic

journalist, Katrine Fønsmark, in the DR fictional political drama

Borgen which charted the rise of Denmark's first female prime

minister. In order to prepare for the role, she spent a summer

training with television news teams and reporters. Sørensen received

critical acclaim for playing a strong female protagonist on the show,

and international recognition especially in the United Kingdom. For

the show's third season, Sørensen received a nomination for the

Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Television). She also

garnered her first nomination for the Robert Award for Best Actress in

a Leading Role for playing a criminal psychologist's secretary in the

action film Ved verdens ende (2009) with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Nikolaj

Coster-Waldau. In 2012, Sørensen portrayed painter Marie Krøyer in

the biographical film The Passion of Marie which earned her second

Best Actress nomination at the Robert Awards. The following year, she

appeared as Virgilia in the play Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston at

Donmar Warehouse, London.
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