Trine Dyrholm
Occupation(s)Actress
Singer
Songwriter
Years active1982–present
PartnerNiclas Bendixen

Trine Dyrholm (born in Odense, Denmark on April 15, 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national attention when she placed third in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress three times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress once as well as a two Robert Awards for acting.

Career

When Dyrholm was 8-years-old she began performing with the Odense orchestra. At the age of 10 she performed in Et juleeventyr (A Christmas Story) at the Odense Teater and in summer stock in Den Fynske Landsby. In 1987, at 14-years-old, Dyrholm made her breakthrough as the lead singer in Trine & The Moonlighters when the group placed third in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with the song Danse i måneskin (Dancing in Moonlight).[1] After her Grand Prix success, Dyrholm recorded a CD of her own songs.

Dyrholm attended the Statens Teaterskole (Danish National School of Theatre) from 1991 to 1995.[2] In 1995 she debuted in En skærsommernatsdrøm at Grønnegårds Teatret.[2] Dyrholm earned national recognition with her screen debut in the 1990 teenage romance Springflod for which she received the 1991 Bodil Award for Best Actress.[1] That same year she earned glowing reviews for her role in the TV production of Hosekrammeren.[1] Thereafter she appeared in Morten Lorentzen's film Casanova (1990), Cecilie (1991) and Thomas Vinterberg's De største helte (The Greatest Heroes) in 1996. In 1998 Dyrholm played the role of the hotel maid in the first Dogme 95 film, Festen (The Celebration).

In 2004, Dyrholm played the role of Kate in Kim Fupz Aakeson's drama Forbrydelser (International title: In Your Hands) for which she won both the Bodil Award and the Robert Award. In the 2005, Dyrholm again received the Bodil for her leading role in the thriller Fluerne på væggen (Flies on the Wall). The following year, Dyrholm again won both the Bodil and Robert awards for the quirky satire En Soap. In 2007, Trine Dyrholm was again nominated for both the Bodil and Robert awards for her supporting role in Simon Staho's film Daisy Diamond.

She sang songs for the comedy show "Mr. Nice Guy". Three songs from Mr. Nice Guy with lyrics by Peter Lund Madsen and Anders Lund Madsen and music is by Kim Larsen were released as an EP entitled Mr. Nice Guy. The songs were sung by the leading actress for the comedy play Trine Dylholm and musical accompniment by Emil de Waal's band.



were released as an EP of three songs which as of April 13, 2007 has been number one on the Danish music charts for more than a year (total of 62 weeks)[3]. Altogether it has more than 120 weeks (two years) on the charts.

Filmography

Year Danish Title International title Role Notes
2008 Disco ormene Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (voice) (post-production)
2008 Lille soldat Little Soldier Lotte (post-production)
2008 Usynlige, De Usynlige, De Agnes
2008 Dansen Everybody's Dancing Annika
2007 Daisy Diamond Daisy Diamond Director of animation film nominated for Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actress
nominated for Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress
2007 Fremkaldt Fremkaldt Rikke
2006 Offscreen Offscreen herself
nominated for Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress
2006 Happy Feet Happy Feet voice Danish version
2006 Der var engang en dreng Skymaster (film) Pancake Lady
2006 Istedgade Istedgade Sofie
2006 Sophie Sophie Sophie
2006 En Soap A Soap Charlotte won Bodil Award for Best Actress
won Robert Award for Best Actress
2005 Robotter Robots voice Danish version
2005 Fluerne på væggen Flies on the Wall My Larsen won Bodil Award for Best Actress
2005 Den store dag The Big Day Signe
2005 H.C. Andersens eventyr The Fairytaler Additional Voices TV (5 episodes, 2005)
2004 Forbrydelser In Your Hands Kate won Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actress
won Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003 Tvilling Gemini Julie
2003 Afgrunden The Tenth Muse (film) Siv
2002 Okay Okay Trisse
2002 Bungalow Bungalow Lene
2001 P.O.V. P.O.V. Kamilla
2001 Line Knutzon's Torben Toben Torben Toben Agga Television
2000 Edderkoppen Edderkoppen Topsy TV miniseries
1999 I Kina spiser de hunde In China They Eat Dogs Hanne
1999 Taxa Taxi Stine Jensen Television (35 episodes, 1997-1999)
1999 Indien India (1999 film) April
1998 Festen The Celebration Pia
1998 Kys, kærlighed og kroner Regular Thing Katja
1997 Herkules Hercules voice Danish version
1996 De Største helte The Biggest Heroes Pernille
1996 Skyernes skygge rammer mig Shadow of the Clouds Lis
1991 Cecilia Cecilia Cecilia Television
1990 Casanova Casanova Gurli
1990 Springflod Springflod Pauline won Bodil Award for Best Actress

Discography

References

  1. ^ a b c Piils, Morten"Trine Dyrholm - Danmark Nationalfilmografi". Danske Filmskuespillere. Retrieved 2008-08-03.,Gyldendal 2003
  2. ^ a b "Trine Dyrholm". Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  3. ^ danishcharts.com