Lone Scherfig

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-05-02 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Søborg, Danmark

Lone Scherfig

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lone Scherfig (born May 2, 1959) is a Danish film director. She graduated Danish Film School in 1984, and began her career as a director with Kaj's fødselsdag "A Birthday Trip". She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere, 2000), a romantic comedy which among its many international awards won the Silver Berlin Bear (Jury Prize) at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival. It is credited as the most profitable Scandinavian film to date. Most recently she's directed An Education (2009), based on an autobiographical article by British journalist Lynn Barber. T...

Production

2000

2009

An Education

as Director

2007

Just Like Home

as Director

2011

One Day

as Director

2010

Donkeys

as Characters

1990

2018

Backstabbing for Beginners

as Executive Producer

2014

The Riot Club

as Director

1998

On Our Own

as Director

2007

2017

Their Finest

as Director

2023

The Movie Teller

as Director

2006

Red Road

as Writer

2016

1998

On Our Own

as Writer

2019

The Kindness of Strangers

as Executive Producer

2000

2024

The Girl with the Needle

as Executive Producer

2020

The Day We Died

as Executive Producer

1984

Den onde cirkel

as Director

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