Christian Tafdrup

Acting

Christian Tafdrup

Born

1978-04-08 (48)

Place of birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Christian Tafdrup (born April 8, 1978, in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish actor, director and screenwriter. He made his feature directorial debut with Parents (2016), followed by A Horrible Woman (2017) and the psychological horror film Speak No Evil (2022). As an actor, he has appeared in films and television series including After the Wedding, Borgen and Lærkevej.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 12 titles

After the Wedding poster
7.2

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

After the Wedding

2006

Daisy Diamond poster
5.6

A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.

Daisy Diamond

2007

Crying for Love poster
3.8

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«

Crying for Love

2008

Baby poster
9.0

Sex, drugs and money are the cornerstones in the lives of these rootles young people living in a big city. Leni and Nova are sisters and they both long to find and understand love. But it is not easy when you're impulsive and irrational and don't fit in to the established society. Nova is a bit more boundary pushing than her sister and one day she takes it a step too far.

Baby

2003

Princess poster
6.0

The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.

Princess

2006

A Soap poster
5.5

32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of a trans woman Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed and some white curtains bring the two of them together.

A Soap

2006

I'll Come Running poster
5.9

A young Danish man traveling through Texas hooks up with an Austin girl, and even though they're not planning to see each other again, tragic circumstances lead her to his doorstep in Denmark.

I'll Come Running

2008

I'll Come Running poster
5.9

A young Danish man traveling through Texas hooks up with an Austin girl, and even though they're not planning to see each other again, tragic circumstances lead her to his doorstep in Denmark.

I'll Come Running

2008

Nynne poster
4.8

The life of Nynne is based on GUCCI bags and Chanel products, carpaccio and countless visits to cafés, loose relationships with men who screams 'good luck!' when they cum, unused memberships to the local gym and a lenient relationship with mixing champagne, white wine, red wine, cognac, gin, tequila and beer. It goes with out saying: Nynne has yet to experience her Kodak moment.

Nynne

2005

The Big Day poster
4.6

Anne has started a wedding planning biz with happily flaming designer Lars and grumpy accountant Jesper. Hoping to make a big public splash, they land upcoming event that will marry TV chat hosts Anders and Signe. Instant attraction between Anne and Anders is complicated even further by her planned nuptials with boring b.f. Simon.

The Big Day

2005

Veninder poster
3.2

Four friends rent a summer house in Tisvilde to celebrate one of their 40th birthdays. They are wonderful in their own ways; articulate, unsentimental, and with a good dose of self-insight and humor. They are all at different stages in their love lives. It will be a day where everything is turned upside down, analyzed, and when they part ways on Sunday, they will all have grown a little, experienced a lot, and talked a lot...

Veninder

2005

Gustne Gensyn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gustne Gensyn

2006

Series credits

Krejlerkongen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krejlerkongen

2015

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

Borgen poster
8.1

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

Borgen

2010

Tæt på sandheden poster
7.8

Last chance to laugh at the past week before the next one hits you. Comedy show where the week's news and current trends are given the loving but firm treatment by Jonatan Spang.

Tæt på sandheden

2017

Lige i skabet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lige i skabet

2017

Sommer poster
7.6

Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

Sommer

2008

Carmen Curlers poster
6.8

In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

Carmen Curlers

2022

Park Road poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Park Road

2009

Sæt pris på Danmark poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sæt pris på Danmark

2017

Ride Upon the Storm poster
6.6

The story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons - he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into making desperate choices in order to either gain his love or break free from him.

Ride Upon the Storm

2017

Tinkas Christmas Adventures poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tinkas Christmas Adventures

2017

Med på noderne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Med på noderne

2017

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

Oxen poster
6.7

War veteran and former hunter soldier Niels Oxen, Denmark's most decorated soldier ever. Sent home with war trauma, he tries to create meaning in life and to make everyday life fit together.

Oxen

2023

Couple Trouble poster
6.0

A love story about a 30 something couple on the edge of divorce. Through flashbacks told from the office of the couples’ counselor, we experience Anders and Lise’s relationship over the course of the past seven years.

Couple Trouble

2018

Grow poster
6.0

When newly graduated stockbroker Adam discovers his father has died, he leaves his stressful life to return to his roots, taking on his father's role as the leader of a biker gang. At the same time, Adam's brother Jakob has left this messy family and taken a job with the police anti-drug department. This Danish thriller sees the two brothers ending up on a collision course with each other as they choose opposite paths in life.

Grow

2020

Hos Hans poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hos Hans

2018

Dansk films bedste poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dansk films bedste

2022

Album poster
3.8

Across three decades – the 1970s to the turn of the millennium – the lives of three boys – Lars Rolsted, Jon Olufsen, and Martin Lund Jensen – are explored, teeming with grandparents, Marxists, expatriate Danes, stolen kisses, rockers, pushers and welfare clients, yuppies and small, polite suburban punks.

Album

2008

Christmas Wishes poster
4.0

Juleønsket is about 12-year-old Julie to whom Christmas is very important. Especially Christmas Eve. When she finds out that not all of her family members will be there on Christmas, she makes a wish. A wish so strong that it reaches the Angels.

Christmas Wishes

2015

OBLS poster
4.0

The main feature of OBLS are the group of homosexual men and women, all Danes, who talk openly about their lives as homosexuals. Topics vary from coming-out stories to political discussions. The discussions are inspired by on-screen stats from a poll among 1600 Danish homosexuals. In addition, various sketches are performed, including lesbian-stereotype figure Alex and hairdressers Bjørn and Benny. Each episode closes with an ABBA lipsync performance by a special guest.

OBLS

2003

Anstalten poster
9.0

We follow the residents and personnel of Lykkebo, a mental institution, while they face foreclosure.

Anstalten

2011

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gustne Gensyn

2006

Behind the camera

Speak No Evil poster
6.6

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Speak No Evil

2022

Speak No Evil poster
6.6

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Speak No Evil

2022

A Horrible Woman poster
6.3

When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.

A Horrible Woman

2017

A Horrible Woman poster
6.3

When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.

A Horrible Woman

2017

Parents poster
4.1

Parents tell the story of two parents who attempt to fill the void in their lives after their child moves out. Left with a feeling of needlessness, they try to rekindle the magic sparks from their younger days, returning to their old student apartment where they first fell in love. When one morning they wake up feeling thirty years younger, they are forced to come to terms with the fact that the past they once knew might no longer exist.

Parents

2016

Parents poster
4.1

Parents tell the story of two parents who attempt to fill the void in their lives after their child moves out. Left with a feeling of needlessness, they try to rekindle the magic sparks from their younger days, returning to their old student apartment where they first fell in love. When one morning they wake up feeling thirty years younger, they are forced to come to terms with the fact that the past they once knew might no longer exist.

Parents

2016

Let the Evil Go West poster
NR

A railroad worker stumbles upon a fortune under deeply disturbing circumstances. As horrifying visions and manifestations drive him towards madness, his wife becomes convinced that an evil presence has attached itself to their family.

Let the Evil Go West

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Altered Innocence Vol. 2 poster
NR

The next edition of Altered Innocence's collection of short films is finally here with over three hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films in two separately curated programs! Our 'Altered' program is a wild blast of strange and transgressive visions with films about virtual love dolls on a revenge tear, twinks eager to be annihilated, and a lesbian director obsessed with big boobs. The 'Innocence' program is a more tender and subtle program of loveliness with tales about brotherly love, modern transgender life, intergenerational relationships, and boys testing the limits of traditional masculinity.

Altered Innocence Vol. 2

2023

The Copyist poster
8.0

It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. He joins the reputable company Zentropa, where he is even lucky enough to meet the famous Lars von Trier (von Trier himself), who does not have many positive words for Tafdrup. Tafdrup tells aspiring young women that he is actually a director, and he therefore gets them to show up for auditions

The Copyist

1999

The Copyist poster
8.0

It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. He joins the reputable company Zentropa, where he is even lucky enough to meet the famous Lars von Trier (von Trier himself), who does not have many positive words for Tafdrup. Tafdrup tells aspiring young women that he is actually a director, and he therefore gets them to show up for auditions

The Copyist

1999

No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA. Based on the 1997 horror novel by Ryū Murakami.

Audition

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No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA. Based on the 1997 horror novel by Ryū Murakami.

Audition

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Awakening poster
6.6

Carsten is dating Melissa, who introduces him to her parents. On a camping trip with Melissa's family, Carsten finds that he shares a secret with Melissa's father.

Awakening

2008

Awakening poster
6.6

Carsten is dating Melissa, who introduces him to her parents. On a camping trip with Melissa's family, Carsten finds that he shares a secret with Melissa's father.

Awakening

2008

No artwork available
9.0

The film was shot in Copenhagen (Denmark).

Debutanten

2002