Kasper Leisner

Acting

Kasper Leisner

Born

1975-04-29 (51)

Place of birth

Danmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Kasper Leisner is a Danish actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Special Unit - The First Murder poster
7.1

Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes. Soon, Otto finds himself not only battling powerful enemies but also confronting his own dark side in his quest to solve the case.

Special Unit - The First Murder

2025

Kontra poster
4.8

The extrovert, yet slightly naive Fanny (18) has just relocated to a new high school and is struggling to navigate the social hierarchy where status and likeability seems to be measured only by cute outfits, going to the right parties, and having enough followers. Fanny desperately tries to find acceptance but after a humiliating night, she decides to join forces with Lilja (18), the class’s unapproachable, yet confident outsider. The encounter with Lilja turns Fanny’s world upside down, marking the beginning of a whirlwind friendship journey between the two. With a defiant attitude and without looking back, the girls venture out of their high school microcosm and embarks on a fast-paced journey. But climbing the social ladder requires sacrifices, and the girls struggle to not lose themselves in the process.

Kontra

2024

Vilde sind poster
NR

Fifteen-year-old Daniel dreams of a new start with his father in Copenhagen, but this takes a heavy toll on his mentally fragile mother.

Vilde sind

2022

Salmon poster
6.5

The young chef August has big dreams and gets the chance in a recognized Michelin kitchen. He is tested professionally and mentally by the kitchen's harsh, uncompromising and eccentric head chef, but at the same time has towering expectations of himself. It creates a cavalcade of problems and lies over the course of an evening.

Salmon

2024

2010s · 10 titles

Sex, Drugs & Taxation poster
6.1

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Sex, Drugs & Taxation

2013

One-Two-Three Now! poster
6.2

Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time.

One-Two-Three Now!

2016

Itsi Bitsi poster
4.9

1962 is the year when an entire generation lives life as though it was their last day. Young activist Eik Skaløe has his entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, and she falls in love with him. But Iben is a child of the times, and freely accepts the order of the day: free love and sex. She renounces personal right of ownership and will not settle for one man when she can have several. In typically romantic fashion, he begins a struggle to win all of her love. As a poet, writer and singer he constantly confesses his love to her. But Eik must accept defeat, and in 1968 he travels without his beloved Itsi Bitsi to Nepal, the Land of Dreams in the East. A journey from which he will never return.

Itsi Bitsi

2015

The Casting of an Innocent Woman poster
6.0

Young actress Sara is at the brink of a breakthrough. She has an audition for a potential lead role - the first in her career - in a feature film with a heavy subject matter. The mood in the room is accordingly tense. All eyes on Sara. As the casting takes a turn for the strange, Sara needs to face a dark chapter in her own past.

The Casting of an Innocent Woman

2018

Heavy Load poster
6.4

The two estranged brothers Emil and Magnus travel to Spain to bring home the body of their drunken and now dead father. What Emil doesn’t know is that Magnus has only agreed to go because of their father’s valuable Rolex watch which can save his bleeding finances. But when it turns out the transportation of the body will cost more than 10,000 Euro, Magnus convinces his reluctant little brother to run away with the body hidden in a roof box on top of a way too small rental car. Soon the two brothers find themselves on a wild escape from the police, and their father’s last trip forces them to face their own problems.

Heavy Load

2019

The Shooter poster
5.2

The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.

The Shooter

2013

Vogn 347 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vogn 347

2011

The Oasis poster
NR

Tom is a lonely soul who never really understood that thing called love, to him a great and uncharted mystery. But upon meeting Laura he is suddenly and unexpectedly made to feel the effects of love for the first time. Now, caught in a love triangle, Tom is about to discover exactly what lengths he'll go to for the woman he loves.

The Oasis

2013

The Way to Mandalay poster
6.5

The Way to Mandalay tells the story of one of Denmark's greatest and most beloved musicians. The film takes us on a journey from Mogenson's childhood to manhood and throughout his career which spanned more than twenty years, first with great success in a popular vocal group and later as a successful solo artist. There is a long period that John Mogensen can never be satisfied and he is confused by what are the things he truely loves and is willing to do everything for. Is it the music, the stage, the fame or his family?

The Way to Mandalay

2018

The Gentle Pain poster
7.5

One can't help wondering whether, some quarter-century ago, Carsten Brandt had the slightest inkling of the epic dimension the project he was then starting to conceive – The Gentle Pain – would take on in the subsequent decades. For it became epic in just about every sense of the word: the film is very long; it tells a multi-layered story characterised as much by its digressions as by its main narrative thread, which concerns a filmmaker’s attempts to make sense of the life of Thorkild Hansen, a Danish traveller/historian/writer internationally probably best known for his non-fiction novel Processen mod Hamsun (1978); and it took a long time to finish – and then sat on a shelf due to legal battles galore. What is now finally revealed is a monument of modern(ist) cinema: a work that as much charts one man’s journey into his soul as a voyage of discovery into another artist’s mind.

The Gentle Pain

2019

Series credits

True Detective poster
8.3

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

True Detective

2014

Krejlerkongen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krejlerkongen

2015

The Sommerdahl Murders poster
5.9

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

The Sommerdahl Murders

2020

The Chestnut Man poster
7.5

At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

The Chestnut Man

2021

The Killing poster
8.0

The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

The Killing

2007

Darkness: Those Who Kill poster
6.9

Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.

Darkness: Those Who Kill

2019

Rita poster
7.5

Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.

Rita

2012

Follow the Money poster
6.8

'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people who are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex world of economic crime that takes place in banks, the stock exchange, and in boardrooms.

Follow the Money

2016

Anna Pihl poster
7.6

A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.

Anna Pihl

2006

Anna Pihl poster
7.6

A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.

Anna Pihl

2006

ZULU Comedy Galla poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

ZULU Comedy Galla

2010

Warrior poster
6.0

A war veteran plagued by guilt over his final mission teams up with his best friend's widow to infiltrate a dangerous Copenhagen biker gang.

Warrior

2018

Below the Surface poster
6.4

An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.

Below the Surface

2017

Tinkas Christmas Adventures poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tinkas Christmas Adventures

2017

Minkavlerne poster
9.2

No synopsis available yet.

Minkavlerne

2019

Tinka and the mirror of the soul poster
6.6

The last time we met Tinka, she introduced the Collection, where representatives from the four regions of the Kingdom of the Gnomes and a single person together ruled and decided. However, the new form of government does not work as Tinka had hoped, and she has therefore begun to doubt her abilities as the leader of the elves. When Ingi puts Tinka on the trail of a family secret, she and Lasse search for answers in the human world, and here Tinka awaits a surprise that puts the entire existence of the Kingdom of the Elves at risk.

Tinka and the mirror of the soul

2022

Tinka and the King's Game poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tinka and the King's Game

2019

The Orchestra poster
7.1

Jeppe Nygren takes over as deputy conductor of the Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra and is warmly welcomed by his new conductor, who speaks candidly about the musicians' peculiarities and olates. The conflict-ridden Jeppe quickly gets an example of these olates and happens to give the embittered second clarinetist Bo with a cursed promise of a solo part. But it has far-reaching consequences.

The Orchestra

2022

Between Us poster
8.7

Life consists mostly of everyday life and it is easy to forget to care for love. The series is a warm dramedy about two couples, their four perspectives, their trust and lack of trust in their relationships, and how even minuscule details end up having major consequences in their lives.

Between Us

2019

Off the Record poster
7.0

A team of journalists investigates a story uncovering injustice and power abuse, despite facing personal and professional challenges.

Off the Record

2024

Secrets poster
6.0

Siblings Eva and Mads battle personal demons – Eva's crumbling business and secret affair, Mads's descent into addiction – as they strive to break free from destructive patterns, testing the limits of familial bonds.

Secrets

2024

Big Lars poster
NR

Get ready to get to know 'Big Lars' - because Lars Hjortshøj is tired of being 'Little Lars'. Tired of kind of silly roles with a stupid beard, tired of murky jobs, tired of being a man that has stalled in his midlife and never gotten the respect, he deserves. Because of that Lars ventures into a range of projects in his try to achieve real acknowledgement.

Big Lars

2020

Kristian poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kristian

2009

Hullet i hækken poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hullet i hækken

2024

Ungeren poster
7.0

Iben and her boyfriend Alex are among the leading figures at the Youth House in Copenhagen; a sanctuary for the city's young people who do not fit in elsewhere. When the Copenhagen Municipality suddenly sells the house to the religious sect, Faderhuset, they and the other young residents come under immense pressure. While Iben tries to draw the attention of politicians and the press, Alex joins a faction of the house that no longer believes in peaceful solutions. "Rebels - Never Surrender" is based on real events leading up to the demolition of the Youth House in 2007, but above all, it is the story of a group of young people who take to the barricades for the right not to conform.

Ungeren

2024

Den Store Julefortælling poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Den Store Julefortælling

2026