Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

In 2010, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen came to international prominence in the role of journalist Katrine Fønsmark, one of the central protagonists of the multi-award-winning series Borgen. The Danish political drama charted the unexpected rise to power of the first female prime minister of Denmark. Borgen won the International Award at the 2012 BAFTA Television Awards, and Sørensen was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2014 Robert Awards and the 2013 Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for her role in the series. In addition to being a huge success in both the U.K. and Denmark, Borgen has been well-received in the U.S., with Newsweek calling Borgen "the best TV show you you've never seen." Additionally, Borgen has been sold to more than 70 countries, making it the most successful exported Danish television series to date.

Sørensen appeared in HBO's award-winning, critically acclaimed and highly rated television series Game of Thrones. The fantasy show, adapted from George R. R. Martin's novels by creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

While studying at the prestigious Danish National School of Theatre in 2005, Sørensen made her television debut in the thrilling crime drama The Eagle. She then came to the attention of the critics with her performance as Roxie Hart in the 2007 Copenhagen Det Ny Teater production of Chicago, which was hugely successful and led to Sørensen's repeat performance of Roxie in the acclaimed London production at the Cambridge Theatre in 2008.
Sørensen has starred in several major television series, including the BBC Three comedy drama series Bluestone 42. She also starred in the 2013 television series Marple: Endless Night, playing the part of Greta Anderson.

On the feature-film side, Sørensen starred opposite Antonio Banderas in the Spanish sci-fi thriller Automata, which premiered at the 2014 San Sebastian International Film Festival. In 2013, Sørensen was nominated for a Bodil Award in the Best Supporting Actress category by the Danish Film Critics Association and won Best Actress at the Festroia International Film Festival for her performance in the Danish film Someone You Love. In the film, Sørensen played Julie, the grown-up daughter of world-famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob, who reunites her father with his estranged grandson Noa. Also in 2013, she starred in the Norwegian film Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance), alongside Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz and Pål Sverre Hagen.

In 2011 and 2012, Sørensen starred in the title role of two films. She played Julie in Julie, the story of a young tennis star who falls in love with her trainer, based on the play Miss Julie, by August Strindberg; and later as the 19th century Danish artist Marie Krøyer in Marie Krøyer, the biographical drama of Krøyer's marriage to fellow painter P. S. Krøyer. Sørensen was again nominated for a Robert Award for this performance.

In 2009, Sørensen starred as Beate in At World's End and was nominated for Best Actress at both the Zulu Awards and the Robert Festival (Danish BAFTA) for her performance. Sørensen played Sarah in 2008's award-winning Danish thriller Kandidaten (The Candidate), in which a defense attorney is thrown into a tangled web of blackmailers, killers and the unravelling of his father's death. That same year, she appeared in the Danish comedy Anja og Viktor: Braendende Kaerlighed (Anja & Viktor: Burning Love) as Regitze.

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