Maibritt Saerens

Acting

Maibritt Saerens

Born 1970-05-25 · Silkeborg, Denmark

Maibritt Saerens (born May 25, 1970, in Silkeborg) is a Danish actress. Trained at the acting school of the Aarhus Theatre (Aarhus Teater), graduating in 1999, she began her career on stage before gaining public recognition on television in the series Krøniken (2004–2007). In cinema, she has appeared in films such as Take the Trash (Blå mænd, 2008), the Norwegian film Happy, Happy (Sykt lykkelig, 2010), The Talent Thief (Talenttyven, 2012), and Swinger (2016). On television, she has taken part in numerous Scandinavian and international series, including The Killing (Forbrydelsen, 2007), 2900 Happiness (2007–2009), The Heavy Water War (Kampen om det tunge vand, 2015), Follow the Money (Bedrag, 2016), and The Sommerdahl Murders (Sommerdahl, 2022–2023).

Acting credits

Happy, Happy poster
5.8

A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check when an attractive family moves in next door.

Happy, Happy

2010

Chasing Talent poster
4.8

Mark (Casper Crump) and Laura (Mille Lehfeldt) are lovers. He is a singer in a failed boyband. She is getting tired of playing second fiddle to the relationship. But one day Laura is measured by the talent seeker Aslan, and it turns out that she is unbelievably talented. Laura becomes confident and successful. At the same time, Mark’s career is going downhill. Mark discovers that talent can not only be measured but also stolen by Aslan’s machine. In the name of love Mark sucks all of the talent out of his unsuspecting girlfriend and shoots for the stars – with massive consequences at home.

Chasing Talent

2012

Take the Trash poster
6.7

Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life.

Take the Trash

2008

Arsenik og gamle kniplinger poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arsenik og gamle kniplinger

2002

Wallander: The Brothers poster
5.3

In the third Wallander film, starring Krister Henriksson, a bestial double murder is investigated in which the victims have been subjected to torture and where many point to the act of revenge. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.

Wallander: The Brothers

2005

Robin poster
3.8

You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something you see every day. Her name is Robin and she not only claims to have witnessed a gruesome murder but also to having killed her assailant in self-defense. The problem is that the police doesn’t find any trace to prove what happened to her. It remains a complete mystery. Robin feels abandoned by the police, who clearly think she’s the victim of an overactive imagination. Ever her husband and her sister have all the trouble in the world to believe her. She reaches a chilling conclusion. If she didn’t kill the murderer, he must still be out there, wanting to end what he started.

Robin

2017

The Headless Lover poster
NR

Maibritt Saerens is the two-timing bitch who kills her lover in front of her husband. They bury the lover in the backyard. But the lover returns from the dead. He’s not angry about being wasted, but he didn’t finish what he started; he didn’t come!

The Headless Lover

2011