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Paprika Steen

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Paprika Steen

Born November 3, 1964 in Frederiksberg, Denmark48 films

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Paprika Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1949 to win both Best Actress (for Okay) and Best Supporting Actress (Open Hearts) in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.

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Dancer in the Dark posterFirst watchDancer in the Dark20007.8as Woman on Night ShiftSelma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Celebration poster7.7The Celebration1998Adam's Apples poster7.5Adam's Apples2005The Idiots poster6.5The Idiots1998Help! I'm a Fish poster6.7Help! I'm a Fish2000Open Hearts poster7.1Open Hearts2002Love Is All You Need poster6.0Love Is All You Need2012Mifune poster7.0Mifune1999Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever poster6.2Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever2023

Filmography

48 films as actor
  1. TBAThe X-Gene ProjectKaren Hamilton
  2. TBARitaEllen
  3. TBADream Come TrueMikaela
  4. 2025MangoJoan
  5. 2023Nightwatch: Demons Are ForeverKramer
  6. 2023Tove’s RoomTove Ditlevsen
  7. 2019DominoHanne Hansen
  8. 2018That Time of YearKatrine
  9. 2016UndercoverHanne
  10. 2016Antboy 3Alicia Dufort
  11. 2014Silent HeartHeidi
  12. 2014The Psychiatric WardAcacia
  13. 2013WeekendfarHelle
  14. 2012Love Is All You NeedBenedikte
  15. 2012Keep the Lights OnKaren
  16. 2011SuperclasicoAnna
  17. 2010SkeletonsJane
  18. 2010Everything Will Be FineSiri
  19. 2009ApplauseThea Barfoed
  20. 2008Fear Me NotSigrid
  21. 2007The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1Ursula Østdal
  22. 2007The SubstituteUlla Harms, Vikaren
  23. 2006Snart kommer tidenRebecca
  24. 2005Forty Shades of BlueLonni
  25. 2005Run
  26. 2005Adam's ApplesSarah
  27. 2003Stealing RembrandtCharlotte
  28. 2002The Boy Who Wanted to Be a BearFemale Bear (voice)
  29. 2002Open HeartsMarie
  30. 2002OkayNete
  31. 2001Prop and BertaBerta (voice)
  32. 2000Help! I'm a FishMother (voice)
  33. 2000Dancer in the DarkWoman on Night Shift
  34. 2000MaxZeborah
  35. 2000Solen er så rødMoren
  36. 1999The One and OnlyStella
  37. 1999MifunePernille
  38. 1999The Little Knight(voice)
  39. 1998The CelebrationHelene
  40. 1998The IdiotsHigh Class Lady
  41. 1997Hannibal and JerryMor
  42. 1996The Biggest HeroesLisbeth
  43. 1996Den store kul-turElisabeth
  44. 1995Just a GirlSeamstress
  45. 1994Frække Frida og de frygtløse spionerLonni
  46. 1993Black HarvestPige på Ravnsholt
  47. 1993Last RoundSosters semme
  48. 1988Rami og JulieLinda