Kirsten Olesen

Kirsten Olesen

Born: May 10, 1949
in Aarhus, Danmark

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Stains
Title: Stains
Character: Sonya
Released: November 15, 2022
Type: Movie
An artist finds herself at a residency in the northern part of Jutland. Her need for control in every aspect of her life is challenged… both by herself and by an older artist who is seemingly able to see right through her younger counterpart.
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As in Heaven
Title: As in Heaven
Released: September 19, 2021
Type: Movie
One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.
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The Food Club
Title: The Food Club
Character: Marie
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
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Title: Finding Home
Released: December 1, 2018
Type: TV
The year is 1899. The young girl Marie Jensen lives at an orphanage with her two younger siblings Karl and Sofie. Their father is a sailor and has not been home for years. He was last seen in Norway but everybody is convinced he was lost at sea – except Marie. One morning the beautiful freighter ‘Hope’ comes to town with Skipper Andersen and his wife Mrs. Agnete on board. To Marie’s distress, they adopt Karl and Sofie, and Marie now faces being left alone. But quickly she comes up with a plan. At night, she cuts her long hair and disguises herself as a boy, adopts the name of Martin and signs on as a deck boy on ‘’Hope’. The ship takes Marie and her siblings on an eventful journey from the coast of Denmark to Norway and Iceland. A journey full of secrets, friendship, love and adventure – all in the hope of finding her father and reuniting her family. 'Finding Home' is a story about a young girl’s fight to break free of the path that society has destined for her and instead becoming a strong and independent woman.
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Wildwitch
Title: Wildwitch
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a very special Wild Witch and that her blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bravita Bloodyoung.
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Robin
Title: Robin
Character: Gerda
Released: April 14, 2017
Type: Movie
You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something you see every day. Her name is Robin and she not only claims to have witnessed a gruesome murder but also to having killed her assailant in self-defense. The problem is that the police doesn’t find any trace to prove what happened to her. It remains a complete mystery. Robin feels abandoned by the police, who clearly think she’s the victim of an overactive imagination. Ever her husband and her sister have all the trouble in the world to believe her. She reaches a chilling conclusion. If she didn’t kill the murderer, he must still be out there, wanting to end what he started.
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Ein Sommer in Dänemark
Title: Ein Sommer in Dänemark
Character: Ida
Released: October 30, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: This Is Us
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Tommys mom
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Tommy is not doing much of anything with his life or the money he has inherited except smoking weed. His parents have high hopes for him and he is bound to disappoint them. Then one day a Thai prostitute on the run from criminal forces her way into his apartment and Tommy finds himself at a crossroad.
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The Sun Has Died
Title: The Sun Has Died
Released: April 27, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman is terrorized while working the night shift, cleaning a remote kindergarten, in this intense first-person horror film.
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In Your Arms
Title: In Your Arms
Character: Mor
Released: January 25, 2015
Type: Movie
When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish—to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
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Title: The Legacy
Character: Veronica
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: TV
The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.
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Hvor lyset kommer ind
Title: Hvor lyset kommer ind
Character: Lawyer
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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Something in the Air
Title: Something in the Air
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
When clairvoyant Pernille meets Journalist Daniel, who is on a mission to write an exposé about Fact & Fiction in the clairvoyant world, Daniel falls in love with her. And funnily enough, she hadn't seen it coming.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Hanne Thomsen
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
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Rebounce
Title: Rebounce
Character: Marianne
Released: April 28, 2011
Type: Movie
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability admirably. REBOUNCE is an intense drama. Louise's mother is just out of prison and in the eyes of a teenager she's cool, tough and enchanting. To win her love, Louise follows her lead and enters a world of partying, drugs, fast cash and men. Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget that she is just a teenager
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When Heaven Falls
Title: When Heaven Falls
Character: Else
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Sara was placed in care aged 11. Now 28 she hears her mother has died. She goes to the funeral and realises her brother and father don't recognise her so keeps quiet about her identity. When watching her father's house, she finds out she has two younger sisters, and realises that what's going on connects to her childhood...
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Daisy Diamond
Title: Daisy Diamond
Character: Præst
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
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Title: Lysets nøgle
Character: Maren
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II
Title: The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II
Character: Fortæller (voice)
Released: March 29, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to rescue his father, who has been kidnapped, and find the lost treasure. But the fearful and dangerous Black Brotherhood lies in wait.
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Bare Holger
Title: Bare Holger
Character: Astrids mor
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Accused
Title: Accused
Character: Dommer
Released: January 28, 2005
Type: Movie
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life is exposed.
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In Your Hands
Title: In Your Hands
Character: Fængselsinspektøren
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
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Trækfugle
Title: Trækfugle
Character: Henriette
Released: November 26, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Hotellet
Character: Alice Faber
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: TV
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Indien
Title: Indien
Character: Monica Hviid
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Albert
Title: Albert
Released: October 9, 1998
Type: Movie
When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Egon.
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Title: Bryggeren
Character: Magnella
Released: December 29, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Tre ludere og en lommetyv
Character: Donnas lærer
Released: April 4, 1993
Type: TV
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Spring Tide
Title: Spring Tide
Character: Paulines mor
Released: October 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he’s placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His new family greets him with warm hospitality. There’s also the beautiful countryside and, last but not least, the teen-aged daughter
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Medea
Title: Medea
Character: Medea
Released: August 8, 1989
Type: Movie
It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent. Medea is the tragic character that after helping Jason in the Voyage of the Argonauts (myth says that she has even sacrificed her own brother for Jason's success), she gets from him only betrayal, as he arranges to marry the King's of Corinth daughter. The king decides to exile Medea, as she is a danger for his daughter happiness, but Medea asks from him just a day… before she goes outside the borders. That day Medea gets her revenge.
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Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Title: Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Seven 12-year-olds fight against property speculators and local officials who intend to replace a treasured forest with a concrete building jungle.
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Time Out
Title: Time Out
Character: John's mother
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and admits to school. Later, however, there will be a violent showdown with the fanatic. But was this man, in fact, his father?
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Sorg-agre
Title: Sorg-agre
Character: Bondekonen
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: Movie
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Johannes' hemmelighed
Title: Johannes' hemmelighed
Character: Johannes' mor
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Johannes is upset because his parents have divorced and because his father never phones him. Before going to bed he wants his mother to read something from the Bible for him, instead of one of the usual stories from Superman. She reads some lines from the Revelation of St. John. Johannes asks her what "the end is near" means. She explains that it is when Jesus comes back, and sends the good people to Paradise and the evil ones to Hell. In the middle of the night Johannes sees a dazzling light and lots of water pouring out from the toilet. Suddenly an androgynous being is standing in the bathroom. Johannes thinks it's Jesus, and the being doesn't deny it. Johannes asks Jesus if his parents are going to Hell, as he thinks they are evil.
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Elise
Title: Elise
Character: Rachel
Released: September 6, 1985
Type: Movie
In a sexual and romantic drama of intrigue, lies, and gossip, a young woman over a long period of time, has children by both men, her husband and lover before her deception begins to fall apart. Elise (Ann-Mari Max Hansen) is an outgoing, happy woman married to Henry (Ole Ernst), the town doctor. Because of a mix-up one day, she finds herself first compromised and then romantically involved with William (Henning Jensen), a captain of the Dragoons. Her story is told from the viewpoint of the town vicar, who may not be such an innocent bystander as he first seems. Eventually, gossip begins to run rampant, and Elise's life heads for a radical change.
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My Granny's House
Title: My Granny's House
Character: Johanne
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
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The Boy Who Disappeared
Title: The Boy Who Disappeared
Character: Jonas's Mother
Released: February 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a girl his own age and a drunken ex-pilot, who offers him some warmth and understanding.
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Images of Liberation
Title: Images of Liberation
Character: Esther
Released: June 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in Copenhagen during World War II, the film follows a German officer who visits his Danish mistress in the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
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Truck-driver
Title: Truck-driver
Character: Gerda
Released: September 7, 1981
Type: Movie
This trucker road movie tells the story of four men driving 30-ton meat-carriers in shuttle service between Denmark and Italy. Against their will, the truckers get involved in criminal activities that flourish as a result of European custom service bureaucracy. Their bonding as friends and their strongly rooted family life help them through.
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Sigurd Fafnersbane
Title: Sigurd Fafnersbane
Character: Brynhild
Released: May 10, 1981
Type: Movie
An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.
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Title: Vores år
Character: Kim Rasmussen
Released: March 23, 1980
Type: TV
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That's me too
Title: That's me too
Released: February 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Stine is eighteen and has finished school. Her parents have are divorced, and the father has a new wife. Stine is not so anxious finding a regular job, She would like to be an actor.
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Title: Matador
Character: Agnes Jensen
Released: November 11, 1978
Type: TV
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
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Did Somebody Laugh?
Title: Did Somebody Laugh?
Character: Elisabeth
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: Movie
The late 1930s. A young enemployed, unskilled worker walks through the streets of Copenhagen, sustaining himself partly on the dole and free soup-kitchen meals and partly on day-dreams. He spends time at a cemetry studying headstone inscriptions. Mild-mannered and of poetic bent, he understands little of an intellectual friend's advice and shies away from the love of a woman who shares her bed with him.
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In My Life
Title: In My Life
Character: Kirsten
Released: August 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.