Lene Maria Christensen

Acting

Lene Maria Christensen

Born 1972-04-10 · Hillerød, Danmark

Lene Maria Christensen (born 10 April 1972 in Hillerød) is a Danish actress. Graduating from the Danish National School of Theatre in 1999, she works regularly in theatre, film, and television. She gained recognition in cinema for her roles in Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig, 2008) and A Family (En familie, 2011), performances that earned her several Bodil and Robert Awards for Best Actress. On television, her role in the drama series The Legacy (Arvingerne) won her a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Television Role. From 2020 onward, she continued her career with the thriller The Exception (Undtagelsen, 2020) and distinguished herself in the drama Rose (2022), which earned her both a Bodil Award and a Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in the films Unruly (Ustyrlig, 2022), Kingmaker (Mørkeland, 2024), and Honey (2025). On television, she featured in the series The Dreamer - Becoming Karen Blixen (2022), The Orchestra (Orkestret, 2024), and Uniformen (2026).

Acting credits

Home poster
7.8

In the hope of creating a better life, 6-year-old Maja and her parents leave Yugoslavia for Denmark, leaving behind Maja’s two older brothers with the promise they will join once the family is settled. But the new country proves difficult and unfamiliar, and the family struggles to adapt to a new language, culture, and way of life. As the years pass, Maja grows up and becomes a successful artist in Denmark, yet beneath her achievements, she carries a divide of joy, sorrow, and gratitude—torn between the life she has built and the painful sacrifices her parents made for their future.

Home

2026

Unruly poster
6.5

The year is 1933, and society has certain expectations of how young women should behave. 17-year-old Maren is wild and unruly and is in turn sent to the women's institution at Sprogø to become more compliant. The stay at Sprogø has the opposite effect on Maren, and she ignites a spark in Sørine, who after six years at the institution has become accustomed to the norms of the time and the expectations of the institution. Slowly the two begin to form an unbreakable bond, which will affect the rest of their lives.

Unruly

2023

Small Town Killers poster
5.7

The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian contract killer to do a hit on their spouses. But they have badly underestimated their wives, and this becomes the start of an absurd journey where Ib and Edward to their own horror end at the top of a kill list.

Small Town Killers

2017

Three of a Kind poster
7.0

Luis and her mother Christel are stunned when matriarch Vivi arrives unannounced for the holidays. The three women clash under one roof as secrets are revealed - and ultimately must decide if they will stay divided or finally come together.

Three of a Kind

2025

Rose poster
7.7

Over the course of a week, sisters Inger and Ellen find their relationship challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia to the group, receiving both pity and discrimination. On arrival, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.

Rose

2022

The Exception poster
5.2

When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide?

The Exception

2019

Marie Kroyer poster
6.2

Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and Marie’s life is crumbling as her dreams of a beloved wife, good mother and successful artist are unfulfilled. After hospitalizing her mentally ill husband Marie leaves for vacation, and in search for peace and comfort she finds herself falling in love with the young composer Hugo Alfven. Once again, internationally acclaimed Bille August exhibits the weaknesses of human beings in comparison to the ruthless nature. The grandeur scenery of deserted Scandinavian oceans speaks in volumes for the protagonists living in silence despite their lives being full of pains.

Marie Kroyer

2012

Brothers poster
6.8

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

Brothers

2004

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

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

Honey poster
6.6

Honey (13) is shy and lies about herself and her chaotic family, and generally finds it difficult to show who she is in her new class. She loves to play music – and is really good – just no one knows. Honey just wants a place in Liam's band Full Smash, so when she finds out that her dead, music-loving grandfather Marcel might not be dead at all, she decides to find him. Maybe he's just what she needs so she can finally learn to stand up for herself.

Honey

2025

Fidibus poster
5.5

Kalle, a nice middleclass kid, who because of a debt and old friendship ends up as a 'fidibus', a gofer, for the hash baron Paten. But only until Paten is anything but innocently jailed and asks Kalle to mind the store while he is gone. No one touches Paten's money, Paten's car or, least of all, Paten's girl, Saby, who is dumber than water.

Fidibus

2006

My Sister's Kids poster
5.4

Erik Lund is a professor in child psychology. When his sister and her husband go on vacation, he is left in charge of their five children. He really feels up to it, since he is now going to be able to try out his skills in child psychology. However, reality is something else than theory and children do not always do as they are supposed to, according to his book on child psychology. The children soon fool him into doing as they please when it comes to food and pleasures. However, soon they start to realise that if they can make him serve them hot dogs and hamburgers and let them watch TV as much as they like, they can also make him help them restore their old house, so that they won't have to move, as their parents want to. And, as their uncle is nice enough to help them, they also decide to try and get him a wife.

My Sister's Kids

2001

Summer of '92 poster
6.6

The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

Summer of '92

2015

Kingmaker poster
6.1

Ulrik Torp, once a fearless investigative journalist who is now tackling unemployment and a midlife crisis. He finds himself in the middle of a new political conspiracy.

Kingmaker

2024

Heritage poster
NR

In the midst of a family lunch, a daughter's gaze reveals the hidden fractures existing between her mother, grandmother, and herself, before a secret surfaces and jeopardizes everything.

Heritage

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

Terribly Happy poster
6.3

Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.

Terribly Happy

2008

Big Plans! poster
5.0

BIG PLANS follows the petty and irresponsible crook Willy, who has a massive fondness for music. Though he's 38 years of age he will not give up his lifelong dream of becoming a famous musician. When he gets paroled he therefore decides to revive his old band to prove to his eight-year-old son, Mikkel, that he isn't the failure everyone thinks he is.

Big Plans!

2005

A Family poster
6.1

Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family.

A Family

2011

Northwest poster
6.4

Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them.

Northwest

2013

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue poster
6.5

Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day!

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

2003

From Above poster
NR

An artist must claw his way through, seemingly, everything in this moving drama. He struggles with the relationship with his daughter, with his art and with the mental mechanisms that make it difficult for him to be part of the world that the rest of us live in. A tour de force of familiar faces who play dazzlingly in this life-affirming film about all the big and difficult things in life.

From Above

2023

The Three Musketeers poster
5.7

A classic story known all over the world that has captured and thrilled generations of children and adults now in puppet animation format. With all of the sense of childish enthusiasm intact, this romantic story disguised as humour and farce will once again delight.

The Three Musketeers

2006