Connie Nielsen

Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen (born 3 July 1965) is a Danish actress whose first major role in an English-language film was a supporting role in The Devil's Advocate (1997). Her films include Gladiator (2000), Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Basic (2003), The Hunted (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), and Nymphomaniac (2014). She starred as Meredith Kane on the StarzTV series Boss (2011–2012) and was a lead character in the second season of The Following. She has joined the DC Extended Universe, appearing as Hippolyta in its films Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).
== Early lifeEdit ==
Nielsen was born in Frederikshavn and grew up in the village of Elling,[1] Denmark. Her father, Bent Nielsen, was a bus driver, and her mother was an insurance clerk, who also acted and wrote musical reviews.[2][3][4] She was raised a Mormon.[5] She began her acting career working alongside her mother on the local revue and variety scene. At 18, she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as an actress and model, which led to further work and study in Italy—at drama school in Rome and in master classes with Lydia Styx, a teacher at Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Milan. She lived in Italy for many years before moving to the United States, where she still resides.
== Career ==
Nielsen's feature film debut was the Jerry Lewis French film Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir in 1984, followed by a role in the Italian mini-series Colletti Bianchi in 1988. She appeared in the Italian film Vacanze di Natale '91 (1991) and the French film Le Paradis Absolument (1993).[6]
She moved to the United States in the mid-1990s and made her first appearance in a major English-language film in 1997 as Christabella Andreoli in The Devil's Advocate, starring opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. This first minor breakthrough led to roles in the films Permanent Midnight (1998), Rushmore (1998), and Soldier (1998).[7]
In 2000, Nielsen appeared as Lucilla in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, starring opposite Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. Since then, she has starred in American films including Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), The Hunted (2003), and Basic (2003), for which she had to cut off most of her hair. She also starred in the French thriller Demonlover (2002), directed by Olivier Assayas. She played the Irish mother to an orphan in A Shine of Rainbows (2009).[8]
In 2004, Nielsen made her Danish film debut in the drama, Brødre (also known as Brothers), for which she won the Danish Best Actress Award, the Bodil, as well as Best Actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. She was also nominated for Best Actress at the European Film Awards. In 2006, Nielsen appeared in several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Dani Beck. She filled in for Mariska Hargitay, who was on maternity leave at the time of filming.[9]
Alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jamie Bell and Uma Thurman, Nielsen appeared in the 2014 Lars Von Trier film Nymphomaniac.[10] Nielsen was featured in a series of promotional posters prior to the film's release, a campaign The Independentdescribed as "shocking", writing, "Connie Nielsen appears somewhat moist in this poster for Nymphomaniac".[11]
In 2015, she appeared on the latest TV-2 album Det gode liv where she sang along with Steffen Brandt on the track "Brev til Mona" In September 2018 she appeared as a cast member of the CBS drama FBI with Jeremy Sisto and Missy Peregrym. The pilot aired in Sept, 25 and was repeated Sept,29.
== Personal life ==
From 2004 to 2012, Nielsen dated Metallica drummer and fellow Dane Lars Ulrich. They have one son together, Bryce Thadeus Ulrich-Nielsen (born 21 May 2007, in San Francisco, California).[12] She has an older son, hip-hop producer Sebastian Sartor (born 27 November 1989), from a previous relationship.[13]
Nielsen is multilingual and speaks eight languages: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, and some Spanish.[14]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1984	Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir	Eva 	Credited as Connie Nielson
1991	Vacanze di Natale '91 	Brunilde/Vanessa 	
1997	The Devil's Advocate 	Christabella Andreoli	
1998	Permanent Midnight 	Dagmar 	
1998	Rushmore 	Mrs. Calloway 	
1998	Soldier 	Sandra 	
2000	Innocents 	Megan Denright 	
2000	Mission to Mars 	Terri Fisher 	
2000	Gladiator 	Lucilla 	Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Action
Nominated—Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2002	One Hour Photo 	Nina Yorkin 	Nominated—Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2002	Demonlover 	Diane de Monx 	
2003	The Hunted 	Abby Durrell 	
2003	Basic 	Osborne 	
2004	Brødre 	Sarah 	Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actress
2004	Return to Sender 	Charlotte Cory 	
2005	The Great Raid 	Margaret Utinsky 	
2005	The Ice Harvest 	Renata Crest 	
2006	The Situation 	Anna Molyneux 	
2007	Battle in Seattle 	Jean 	
2009	A Shine of Rainbows 	Maire 	
2010	Kidnappet 	Susanne 	
2011	Perfect Sense 	Jenny 	
2013	Nymphomaniac 	Joe's Mother 	Part 1
2013	The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden 	Baroness Von Wagner 	Narration/voice
2014	3 Days to Kill 	Christine Renner 	
2014	Return to Zero 	Dr. Claire Holden 	
2014	All Relative 	Maren 	
2015	The Runner 	Deborah Price 	
2016	Ali and Nino 	Duchess Kipiani 	
2016	The 11th 	Katrine Firth 	
2016	Løvekvinnen 	Mrs Grjothornet 	
2016	The Confessions 	Claire Seth 	
2017	Stratton 	Sumner 	
2017	Wonder Woman 	Queen Hippolyta 	
2017	Justice League 	Queen Hippolyta 	
2018	The Catcher Was a Spy 	Koranda 	
2019	I'll find you 	Lena 	Completed
2019	Tonight at Noon 	Laura 	Completed
2020	Wonder Woman 1984 	Queen Hippolyta 	Post-production
TBA 	Inheritance 	Catherine 	Post-production
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1993 	Voyage 	Ronnie Freeland 	Television movie
1994 	Le paradis absolument 	Sarah 	Television movie
2006 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Detective Dani Beck 	6 episodes
2008 	Danny Fricke 	Danny Fricke 	Television movie
2011–2012	Boss 	Meredith Rutledge Kane	16 episodes
2014 	The Following 	Lily Gray 	10 episodes
2014–2015	The Good Wife 	Ramona Lytton 	4 episodes
2015 	Unveiled 	Joan McAllen 	Television movie
2018 	FBI 	Ellen Solberg 	Episode: "Pilot"
2018 	Liberty 	Katrina 	Miniseries
2019 	I Am the Night 	Corinna Hodel 	Limited Series
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