Sidse Babett Knudsen is a Danish actress who works in theatre, television, and film. Knudsen made her screen debut in the 1997 improvisational comedy Let's Get Lost, for which she received both the Robert and Bodil awards for Best Actress. Following the critical success of her debut, Knudsen has been considered one of the top Danish actresses of her generation. In 2000, she again won both best actress awards for the comedy romance Den Eneste Ene (English title: The One and Only). In 2016, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Courted (L'Hermine). Knudsen has also received award nominations for her roles in Monas Verden (Mona's World) and Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding). Knudsen achieved international recognition for her leading role as fictional Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish TV series Borgen.

Filmography

• Kill Jackie — Karenina
• 2026What Lies Between Us — Anne Sofie
• 202513 Days, 13 Nights — Kate
• Prime Target — Professor Andrea Lavin
• 2025The Family Plan 2 — Svetlana Romanova
• 2025The Great Arch — Liv von Spreckelsen
• 2024An Ordinary Case — Maître Annie Debret
• Danske tv-seriers bedste — Sig selv
• 2024Sons — Eva Hansen
• Agent — Sidse Babett Knudsen
• 2023Club Zero — Miss Dorset
• 2023Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction — The Grand Duchess
• 2023Oh My Goodness! — Mère Joséphine de la Rédemption
• 2023WOACA — WOACA
• Borgen - Power & Glory — Birgitte Nyborg
• 2020Limbo — Helga
• Roadkill — Madeleine Halle
• Ted Lasso — Bridget (voice)
• 2020The Idiots Who Started The Party — Sig selv
• 2020Wildland — Bodil
• 2019Captain Bimse — Sophie
• The Accident — Harriet Paulsen
• 2019The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle — Ohlmann
• 2019The Exception — Anne-Lise
• 2019The Translators — Helene Tuxen
• 50 Nuances de Grecs — Freya
• 2018Holly på Sommerøen — Charlotte skovmyre
• 2018In Fabric — Jill
• 2018Vitello — Vitello's Mother (voice)
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — Jill
• 2017The Eternal Road — Sara
• 2016150 Milligrams — Dr Irène Frachon, pulmonologist
• 2016A Hologram for the King — Hanne
• 2016Inferno — Elizabeth Sinskey
• Westworld — Theresa Cullen
• 2015Courted — Ditte Lorensen-Coteret
• 2015The Duke of Burgundy — Cynthia
• 2015Vitello Digs a Hole — Mother (voice)
• 1864 — Johanne Louise Heiberg
• 20141864: Brødre i krig — Johanne L. Heiberg
• 2014Speed Walking — Lizzi
• 2012Almost Perfect — Sandra
• Borgen — Birgitte Nyborg
• 2010Therapy — Puk
• ZULU Comedy Galla — Vært, Sidse Babett Knudsen
• 2009Above the Street, Below the Water — Anne
• 2009The Apple & The Worm — Sylvia (voice)
• 2008Take the Trash — Lotte
• 2007With Your Permission — Bente
• 2006After the Wedding — Helene
• 2006Søren Østergaards 'internationale' tivoli varieté
• 2004Bernie and Bingo — Bingo, The Penguin
• 2004Fakiren fra Bilbao — Louise
• Proof — Nina Kutpreka
• 2004Villa Paranoia — Olga Holmgård
• 2003Dogville — Thanks
• 2003Dogville: The Pilot — Grace
• 2003Old, New, Borrowed and Blue — Katrine
• 2002Klonkadonka! — Molly
• 2002The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear — Woman (voice)
• 2001Chop Chop — Rita
• 2001Mona's World — Mona
• 2000Max — Sarah 'Max' Engell
• 2000Miracle — Dennis Ps mor
• 1999Mifune — Bibi
• 1999The One and Only — Sus
• 1998Motello — Julie
• 1997A Quiet Death — Sally
• 1997Fanny Farveløs — Mother
• 1997Let's Get Lost — Julie
• Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery — Hulkende kvinde / Sobbing Woman
• Strisser på Samsø — Hanne Jensen
• Taxa — Milla
• 1997Thérapie russe — Mette
• 1996Charlot og Charlotte — Helle
• Charlot og Charlotte — Helle, gøgler
• 1995Debut
• Juletestamentet — Mercedes
• The Simpsons — a Danish Woman (voice)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2023Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard — Self
• 2014Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama — Self