Stine Fischer Christensen

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Stine Fischer Christensen at the American Hamptons International Film Festival (2011)

Stine Fischer Christensen (born February 3, 1985 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish actress. She became known to a wide audience through the role of Anna in Susanne Bier's family drama After the Wedding (2006), for which she was awarded the most important Danish film prizes, Bodil and Robert .

biography

Training and first film roles

Stine Fischer Christensen is the younger sister of the filmmaker Pernille Fischer Christensen . Her childhood was overshadowed by the cancer death of her imaginative father, with whom she had a close bond. The 16-year-old then left her parents' home in Hellerup and moved to Copenhagen . Fischer Christensen attended a media school there with the aim of becoming a photographer. As a child in the 1990s, she appeared in short films made by her 16-year-old sister. These include Poesi Album and India (1999), which was shown in the Cinéfondation series at the Cannes Film Festival and won a prize. After her first experiences in front of the camera, the Dane was far from embarking on an acting career before she got a job as usher at the Copenhagen theater Østre Gasværk at the age of 14, where she was able to observe the actors' work up close.

Fischer Christensen made her feature film debut with a small supporting role in Rumle Hammerich's Unge Andersen (2005). After participating in the Emmy award-winning historical drama, the Dane began to take acting more seriously and in the same year secured a place at the National Danish Theater School in Copenhagen, where she trained as an actress until 2009. In 2006 Susanne Bier entrusted her with a role in her feature film After the Wedding (2006) alongside well-known mimes such as Rolf Lassgård and Sidse Babett Knudsen . In the Oscar- nominated family drama, the 20-year-old was seen as a betrayed young bride who meets her birth father (played by Mads Mikkelsen ) at the wedding . The part of Anna represented the breakthrough as a film actress in her home country and at the beginning of February 2007 Fischer Christensen won the award of the Danish Film Academy, Robert , for best supporting actress . A few weeks later she was also successful in the same category at the Bodil Awards. This victory was particularly in the focus of the Danish press, as at the same time her sister Pernille won the award for the best Danish film of the year for her debut feature film, En Soap .

After the success of After the Wedding , Fischer Christensen concentrated more on her acting studies and rarely ventured out to film. While the soft-voiced actress took on the title role of a porn star who died of drugs in Anders Morgenthaler's animated film Princess (2006) alongside Thure Lindhardt as a dubbing actress in 2006 , Morgenthaler also used her in his feature film debut Echo during the 2007 summer vacation . The filmmaker discovered Fischer Christensen after working in the student film Aftenland (2003). In Echo , a drama about a divorced policeman (played by Kim Bodnia ) kidnapping his son, the young actress slipped into the role of a quirky saleswoman who serves as a surrogate mother. The reward for the part of Angelique was a renewed nomination for Bodil for Best Supporting Actress , which she lost to Charlotte Fich ( unconditionally ).

Theater debut and roles in international cinema

In autumn 2007, the acting student made her theatrical debut alongside Ulf Pilgaard , Thomas Bo Larsen and Stine Stengade in a small role in a production of Thomas Vinterberg's Das Fest am Østre-Gasværk-Theater. A year later she was awarded the Shooting Star Award at the 58th Berlin Film Festival for her acting performance in After the Wedding together with actors such as the German Hannah Herzsprung or the Romanian Anamaria Marinca .

As part of her acting training, she planned to play another theater role in John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' in 2008, while at the end of August 2008 she attracted attention through an advertising campaign for the Swedish furniture company Ikea in Denmark when she spent several days in the shop window of a branch in Aarhus inhabited. In 2009 she took on the leading role in the Danish fairy tale adaptation De vilde svaner Poster based on the work of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen , while in 2010 she took on a small role as a prostitute in Mikkel Munch-Fals ' award-winning drama Nothing's All Bad - Smukke mennesker .

In 2010, the German director Christian Schwochow entrusted her with the title role in his German-language feature film Die Insichtbare , although Fischer Christensen spoke no German. In the drama, the Dane can be seen as the silent drama student Fine, who drive the compulsion to succeed and the family burden with a disabled sister to the edge of the abyss. Schwochow became aware of Fischer Christensen through her successful role in After the Wedding . “I saw the film, was fascinated and invited Stine to Berlin. It was immediately clear: This is my fine, ” said Schwochow. The script was translated for the actress. “Of course I learned my text in German, but that's different than when you play in a language that you speak. I had to learn a completely new way of working, ” says Fischer Christensen. In 2011, the Danish actress was rewarded with winning the Acting Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .

In 2013, Fischer Christensen played the leading female role in the American drama Culling Hens . In the low-budget production , she can be seen as the naive and uneducated wife of a field worker who falsely suspects her husband of sodomy .

Filmography (selection)

Fischer Christensen at the Hamptons International Film Festival (2011)
  • 1997: Tifanfaya (short film)
  • 1999: India (short film)
  • 2003: Aftenland (short film)
  • 2005: Unge Andersen
  • 2006: After the wedding (Efter brylluppet)
  • 2006: Princess (voice)
  • 2007: Echo (Ekko)
  • 2008: Elsker ikke (short film)
  • 2009: The wild swans (De vilde Svaner)
  • 2010: Protectors - For Life and Death ( Livvagterne ; TV series, an episode)
  • 2010: Nothing's All Bad - Smukke mennesker (Smukke mennesker)
  • 2011: The invisible one
  • 2013: Culling Hens
  • 2017: The charmer (Charmøren)
  • 2017: Darkland (Underverden)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Stine Fischer Christensen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ekelund Zemanova, Christina: Interview: Stine, Snak Hoejere ... In: Politiken , June 16, 2006, p. 3
  2. ↑ a b Interview at cineuropa.org, January 3, 2008 (English; accessed October 5, 2008)
  3. ↑ a b c Piil, Morten: Pure Talent at dfi.dk, February 1, 2008 (English; accessed October 5, 2008)
  4. ↑ Krogh, Bodil: Klassikere på Østre Gasværk at jp.dk, May 11, 2007 (Danish; accessed October 5, 2008)
  5. ↑ Bartlitz, Tamara ( ddp Basisdienst): hristian Schwochow is shooting his second feature film in Berlin - Danish Stine Fischer Christensen plays "The Invisible" . August 18, 2010, 12:08 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  6. ↑ Description ( Memento of May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at cullinghens.com (accessed on May 10, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer Christensen, Stine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish actress
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark