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Danish beauty Connie Nielsen consistently lights up the screen
with an eclectic bevy of film roles. However, it was her portrayal of Princess
Lucilla, opposite Russell Crowe's Maximus in Ridley Scott's Academy Award-winning
Gladiator (2000), which first garnered a mass appeal. She most recently won
Best Actress Awards from the Danish Academy Awards and from the San Sebastian
Film Festival for her role in the Danish drama Brødre (2004) (aka Brothers),
which has been picked up for distribution by Focus Features and IFC Films. Up
next, she will soon be seen in the World War II epic The Great Raid (2005) opposite
Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes and James Franco for director John Dahl and produced
by Miramax; the dramatic thriller Return to Sender (2004) directed by Bille
August, which premiered at The Toronto Film Festival in 2004; and the black
comedy The Ice Harvest (2005) with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Randy
Quaid, directed by Harold Ramis for Focus Features. In 2003, Nielsen starred
as an industrial spy in a corporate war in the critically acclaimed suspense
thriller Demonlover (2002), directed by Olivier Assayas and co-starring Chloë
Sevigny and Gina Gershon. Her other lead roles range from The Hunted (2003)
by director William Friedkin (with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro); to
Basic (2003) by director John McTiernan (opposite John Travolta and Samuel L.
Jackson); to One Hour Photo where she starred opposite Robin Williams; to Mission
to Mars opposite Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle; to The Devil's Advocate
starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. Additionally, Nielsen has received a Best
Actress Award from the Empire Awards for her role in the Gladiator, and has
given unforgettable performances as a German heroin junkie in Permanent Midnight
opposite Ben Stiller and as an unmatronly Texas mother in Rushmore opposite
Bill Murray. Other film credits include The Innocents opposite Jean Hughes Anglade,
Voyage with Rutger Hauer and Eric Roberts.
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