Actor. Born 15/4 1972. Graduated from the National School of Performing Arts in 1995.
She made her feature film debut in 'Spring Tide' (1990), for which she was awarded a Danish Bodil Award. She subsequently appeared in a variety of films throughout the '90s, such as 'Cecilia' (1991), 'Casanova' (1991), 'In China They Eat Dogs' (1999), as well as in Thomas Vinterberg’s 'The Greatest Heroes' (1996) and his Dogme film 'The Celebration' (1998). She also starred in the popular Danish TV series 'Taxi' (1997-1999).
Through the '00s Dyrholm became one of Denmark’s most popular actors. She starred in Hans Fabian Wullenweber’s 'Gemini' (2003), Annette K. Olesen’s Dogme film 'In Your Hands' (2004), Pernille Fischer Christensen's 'A Soap' (2006) and Åke Sandgren's 'Flies on the Wall' (2005).
Dyrholm has since starred in a string of award-winning films, such as Susanna Bier’s Oscar-winning drama 'In a Better World' (2010), Nikolaj Arcel’s Oscar-nominated period drama 'A Royal Affair' (2012) and Thomas Vinterberg’s 'The Commune' (2016), the latter winning her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlinale. She also garnered awards and great praise for her performance in May el-Toukhy’s 'Queen of Hearts' (2019).
Her credits include roles in several foreign productions, such as 'Nico, 1988' (2017), which won the main award in the Horizons sidebar competition at the Venice Film Festival.
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