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Susanne Bier
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Susanne Bier

Born April 15, 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark

11 films

Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010), the later of which earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), Love Is All You Need (2012), Serena (2014), and Bird Box(2018). She directed the BBC One / AMC miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on television, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. She also directed the HBO psychological miniseries The Undoing (2020), the Showtime historical anthology series The First Lady (2022), and the Netflix mystery series, The Perfect Couple (2024). C-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography 11

Bird Box (2018) movie poster
Bird Box2018
A Second Chance (2014) movie poster
A Second Chance2014
Serena (2014) movie poster
Serena2014
Love Is All You Need (2012) movie poster
Love Is All You Need2012
In a Better World (2010) movie poster
In a Better World2010
Brothers (2009) movie poster
Brothers2009
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) movie poster
Things We Lost in the Fire2007
After the Wedding (2006) movie poster
After the Wedding2006
Brothers (2004) movie poster
Brothers2004
Open Hearts (2002) movie poster
Open Hearts2002
The One and Only (1999) movie poster
The One and Only1999