Connie Nielsen Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an Empire Award for best actress in 2001 for her role in "Gladiator․"
• Has received a Bodi Award for Best Actress
• Founded the Human Needs Project in 2010
• Attended Piccolo Teatro di Milano to study acting
• Made her screen acting debut in the film "How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave" in 1984
• Quote: "I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order․ The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché․ If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are missing out․"
• Quote: "We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies․"
• Appeared in several European films before making her English-language debut in the 1997 movie, "The Devil's Advocate․"
• Best known for her role as Lucilla in "Gladiator" and as Nina Yorkin in "One Hour Photo․"
• Served as the keynote speaker at the 2013 Gates Foundation Sanitation Summit
• Fluent in eight languages, including Danish, German, Italian and Swedish