Trine Dyrholm Biography

Trine Dyrholm (born in Odense, Denmark on 15 April 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national attention when she placed third in the Danish, Dansk 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 eight years old, she began performing with the Odense orchestra. At the age of 10, she performed in Et juleeventyr (A Christmas Carol) 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). 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. In 1995, she debuted in En skærsommernatsdrøm at Grønnegårds Teatret. 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. That same year, she earned glowing reviews for her role in the TV production of Hosekrammeren. Thereafter she appeared in Morten Lorentzen's films Casanova (1990) and Cecilie (1991), and then 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 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 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 accompaniment by Emil de Waal's band. The EP has been number one on the Danish music charts for a total of 62 weeks. Altogether, it has stayed in the Top 20 from 17 December 2004 until 2 November 2007, more than 136 weeks on the charts.

Filmography

Year	Danish Title	International title	Role	Notes
2012	Den Skaldede Frisør	Love is All You Need	Ida
2012	En Kongelig Affære	A Royal Affair	Juliane Marie
2011	Værelse 304	Room 304	Helene
2010	Hævnen	In a Better World	Marianne
2008	Disco ormene	Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms	(voice)
2008	Lille soldat	Little Soldier	Lotte
2008	Usynlige, De	Troubled Water	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	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

• 1987: Danse i Måneskin, Eldorado Records
• 1988: Blå & Hvide Striber, (with Rock-Nalle), Banzai Records
• 1988: Et Frossent Ojeblik, It's Magic
• 2004: Mr. Nice Guy
• 2005: Den Store Day