Connie Nielsen
Connie Nielsen
Connie Inge-Lise Nielsenis a Danish actress whose first major role in an English language film was a supporting role in The Devil's Advocate; Nielsen later gained international attention for her role in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Her films include Mission to Mars, One Hour Photo, Basic, The Hunted, The Ice Harvestand Nymphomaniac. She starred as Meredith Kane on the Starz TV series Bossand was a lead character in the second season of The Following. She is set to play Queen Hippolyta...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 July 1965
CityFrederikshavn, Denmark
CountryDenmark
Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.