Sebastian Jessen

Acting

Sebastian Jessen

Born 1986-07-07 · Søborg, Danmark

Sebastian Jessen is a Swedish actor, known for While We Live (2017), Love Is All You Need (2012) and 4Reality (2013).

Acting credits

In Love & War poster
4.3

Danish soldier Esben fakes his own death in an attempt to flee the war and reunite with his beloved wife Kirstine and their son Karl after being apart for three years. However, everything has changed while he has been away. A charming German officer has taken over the role as the family’s father and is courting Kirstine. While hiding in his own attic, Esben witnesses this very real nightmare and must do everything in his power to survive, win back the love of Kirstine and save his family.

In Love & War

2018

Help! I'm a Fish poster
6.6

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

Help! I'm a Fish

2000

Triple Dare poster
4.9

Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.

Triple Dare

2006

A Beautiful Life poster
6.9

When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.

A Beautiful Life

2023

Love Is All You Need poster
6.0

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

Love Is All You Need

2012

Flickering Lights poster
7.2

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Flickering Lights

2000

Mango poster
6.4

An ambitious hotelier and her reluctant daughter take a trip to Málaga, where they find what they've been craving in a farmer's idyllic mango orchard.

Mango

2025

Rich Kids poster
3.3

A story about a group of rich kids, from old money families, north of Copenhagen, from a world where people with ambition and power rule. Away from the superficiality and pretention of their social class, they live a secret life, in which power, money, sex, drugs and endless secrets dominate. A lifestyle only a few of them can survive and where most become scarred for life.

Rich Kids

2007

Boy poster
5.4

18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides.

Boy

2011

Collision poster
6.7

'Collision' centres on a married couple, Leo and Olivia. As they are facing a crisis in their marriage, their nine-year-old daughter, Liv, becomes a messenger between her mother and father. The film explores the break-up of a family and the decisions parents make in trying to find meaning and hope when everything is falling apart

Collision

2019

The Christmas Party poster
4.5

When Anders Bo begins his new job as a car salesman, he is given the special task of infiltrating the small competing car shop, Holger's Auto during their annual Christmas party and steal their customer file. As Anders Bo romps through the commotion and antics of the celebration, he realizes that his assignment in fact relates to an old family feud and that the odd and funny characters working there might have more to offer than meets the eye - especially Amalie, the beautiful daughter of the owner, Holger. In the middle of Christmas pudding and Christmas cheer Anders Bo suddenly learns to listen to his heart.

The Christmas Party

2009

Katja's Adventure poster
7.2

Danish Katja looks for a lost falcon while on vacation in Italy.

Katja's Adventure

1999

The Day After poster
NR

Andreas is warned by a mysterious stranger that his best friend Jannik is in danger. That's all he remembers from his night on the town last night. Was it something he dreamed? When the pieces start to fall into place, he realizes that everything he does is helping to facilitate his friends tragedy. with a circular approach to time, 'The Day After' plays with the idea of causality and the difficulties of accepting wrong doing.

The Day After

2009

Ecocide poster
NR

Noah, a charismatic advertisement executive, has just launched the ad campaign of his career for the company Nordic Meat. But when his little sister Naia begins live-streaming from the roof of a Nordic Meat factory, accusing the company of greenwashing and threatening to commit so-called “ecocide” by jumping off the building unless they meet her extremist activist network’s demands, Noah is forced to confront his own values and fight for what matters most.

Ecocide

2024

Toscana poster
5.9

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

Toscana

2022

Miracle poster
6.2

What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy in your class who doesn't yet sport pubes ...? For Dennis P. there's only one way out - pray. In this musical adventure the miracle comes in the shape of an angel clone looking suspiciously like Dennis P.'s late father. The angel issues Dennis P. with a license to perform medium grade miracles, but there's a string attached - Dennis P. must stop using swearwords. Dennis P. throws himself into readjusting his existence. But one miracle leads to another, and the 'adjustments' lead to grotesque consequences.

Miracle

2000

Insekt poster
NR

The decline of a young self-destructive woman on her path to liberation, as she is confronted with her past.

Insekt

2014

Bertram & Co poster
8.5

Bertram and his family seek compensation after being swindled by a shop manager. George, a relative of Bertram's, has an idea when he discovers that the shop will display the most valuable diamond in the world.

Bertram & Co

2002

The Stranger poster
3.8

Tommy is not doing much of anything with his life or the money he has inherited except smoking weed. His parents have high hopes for him and he is bound to disappoint them. Then one day a Thai prostitute on the run from criminal forces her way into his apartment and Tommy finds himself at a crossroad.

The Stranger

2015

Better Times poster
6.1

After their mother's death, Oskar leans on brother Karl. But Karl's bakery faces court due to their father's debt. United, can they save it?

Better Times

2023

No artwork available
NR

Kamille wants to quit smoking, as she has tried so many times before. In fact, she has taken quite a few pictures of herself with "the last cigarette" in her mouth. If she were pregnant, it would be so much easier to quit, Kamille jokes, but the idea of becoming a mother continues to buzz around in her head when she meets a guy.

Nikotin

2014

Almost Perfect poster
5.5

Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she realizes that the child may come to resemble the father and possibly get his less flattering characteristics. Anne feels compelled to find the sperm donor and ensure that he is as perfect as she imagines.

Almost Perfect

2012

While We Live poster
6.3

Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident.

While We Live

2017

Nothing's All Bad poster
6.4

Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man with a psychological disability. Four people yearning for love, four people, each hoping for a better tomorrow.

Nothing's All Bad

2010