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She is probably best known for her performance in the 2002 film Open Hearts by Susanne Bier, for which she was nominated for both the Bodil Award and the Robert Award.
Writing and directing the films in collaboration, they first made the children's film Thomas er fredløs from 1967 and then experienced a breakthrough with The Ballad of Carl-Henning, inspired by the French New Wave and won the Danish Film Critics Award for Best Danish Film on 1969.