Susanne Bier

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1960-04-15 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Susanne Bier

Biography

Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010), the later of which earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire...

Production

2002

Open Hearts

as Director

2023

Bird Box Barcelona

as Executive Producer

2006

2006

2004

Brothers

as Director

2004

Brothers

as Screenplay

2000

2009

Brothers

as Writer

2010

1999

The One and Only

as Director

1991

2012

2014

Serena

as Director

1993

Family Matters

as Director

1997

Credo

as Director

1997

Credo

as Screenplay

2014

A Second Chance

as Director

2014

2014

Serena

as Producer

2002

The One and Only

as Executive Producer

2018

Bird Box

as Director

1989

Notes on Love

as Additional Writing

2018

Bird Box

as Executive Producer

1992

Letter to Jonas

as Director

2026

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