Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis

Acting

Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis

Born

1965-11-21 (60)

Place of birth

Herning, Denmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 8 titles

Begravelsen poster
NR

When Marit reluctantly attends her father's funeral, unpleasant secrets emerge and she has to confront her dysfunctional family once and for all.

Begravelsen

2002

We Shall Overcome poster
7.2

A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.

We Shall Overcome

2006

Take the Trash poster
6.6

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

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

Skymaster poster
6.7

Life becomes troublesome when 10-year-old Kalle's newborn sister has a birth defect on her back resembling wings. Only he sees the true miracle of his sister's odd appendages. When she is sent to the renowned Plastic Palace Clinic of cosmetic surgery for an amputation, Kalle sets out on a rescue mission. On the road, he meets Alf, a reclusive mechanic, who agrees to help. Together, they take off in Alf's vintage Cadillac in a race against time through an autumn-colored world of song and dance.

Skymaster

2006

I Was a Swiss Banker poster
2.1

Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling black money across the border for reinvestment. But then a split second reaction changes his entire life. Flagged down one day by a customs officers, Roger loses his cool and makes a run for it. His only means of escape: diving headlong into Lake Constance, thereby catapulting himself out of his life as a banker and into a totally new universe, populated with shy mermaids decked out in Lara Croft gear, and cunning magpie witches in helicopters. As in a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Roger has to pass three tests to cast off the witch’s curse and find happiness. His underwater journey through an intoxicatingly beautiful Switzerland is enhanced by the enchanting songs of sirens – a fable full of lust for life and love.

I Was a Swiss Banker

2007

Halalabad Blues poster
6.0

A warm-hearted and biting romance about the impossible love between a Danish woman and a Turkish man

Halalabad Blues

2002

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

1990s · 5 titles

The Idiots poster
6.5

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of 'idiots'. Their primary activity becomes going out into the world of 'normal' people and pretending to be mentally incompetent. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy, and, by every possible means, to make those around them miserable.

The Idiots

1998

Love at First Hiccough poster
6.0

Anja is a beautiful and very well proportioned high school senior... and still a virgin. She insists that she wants her first time to be with a guy, who knows what it's about. Her rich (and arrogant, pretentious and obnoxious) boyfriend Peter serves the purpose, and he's more than willing. In fact, he's pushing forward as much as he can, but Victor, a freshman who has a serious crush on Anja, has other plans. Her first time should definitely not be with this buffoon, and he's ready to take it VERY far!

Love at First Hiccough

1999

The Humiliated poster
6.9

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".

The Humiliated

1998

Baby Doom poster
6.1

Max is a programmer, Nicoline is a chef, and they are both young, in love, and ambitious. Then lightning strikes: they have a baby. From that day on, nothing is ever the same again. Max, who has just been promoted, is certain he has everything well in hand. He has just invented the LifeOrganizer interactive personal scheduler designed to make life easier. But having to endure a baby with colic, piled-up washing and missed deadlines, Max and Nicoline's bachelor lifestyle is put to the test. There are only 24 hours in a day, or are there? With many wacky smiles and lashings of gallows-humour Peter Gren Larsen depicts the stressed out situation young couples face when baby throws a spanner in your career. Max and Nicoline go through an awful lot, including a trial separation, before they accept that kids change your life.

Baby Doom

1998

Café Hector poster
7.5

Café Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uffe is definitely not "in." He can't get a cappuccino, but he is given permission, just this once, to use the toilet. But Uffe is prepared for the situation. He can't take any more humiliation and he is armed!

Café Hector

1996

Series credits

Krejlerkongen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krejlerkongen

2015

Krejlerkongen poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Krejlerkongen

2015

Spørg Charlie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spørg Charlie

2006

Til middag hos... poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Til middag hos...

2010

Klipfiskerne poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Klipfiskerne

2013

Kender du typen poster
6.5

Follow lifestyle experts try to guess which famous person is the weeks guest, solely based on their home

Kender du typen

2011

Taxa poster
7.4

TAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.

Taxa

1997

Live from Bremen poster
5.0

Live from Bremen has been described as the successor to Casper and the Mandril Agreement, as the show has the Mandril Agreement's Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj as permanent fixtures, as well as Casper Christensen as lead author and man of ideas. The show is broadcast live from Bremen, the former Private Theater in Copenhagen, and is followed by Casper Christensen's talk show ALOHA! sent from the same place. Live from Bremen is inspired by the American sketch and satire show Saturday Night Live.

Live from Bremen

2009

Lige i skabet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lige i skabet

2017

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 Djævleræs poster
NR

Zulu Djævleræs is a Danish reality television programme, currently hosted by Julie Ølgaard. Every episode consists of 3 heats. The first two heats consists of all-men and all-women driving against each other. In the third heat, "Djævleheatet", the couples themselves choose who is to drive. This heat includes obstacles, which change from episode to episode. In the third heat the drivers fights for double points.

ZULU Djævleræs

2007

Sæt pris på Danmark poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sæt pris på Danmark

2017

Lykke poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lykke

2011

Deja-vu med Frøkjær poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deja-vu med Frøkjær

2021

Nynne poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nynne

2006

På tværs af Danmark poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

På tværs af Danmark

2020

Hotellet poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hotellet

2000

Dansk films bedste poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dansk films bedste

2022

Hos Hans poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hos Hans

2018

What do the Danes believe in? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

What do the Danes believe in?

2025

Finn'sk fjernsyn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Finn'sk fjernsyn

1999

Da jeg var ung poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Da jeg var ung

2026

Behind the camera