Anders Danielsen Lie


Anders Danielsen Lie is a Norwegian actor, musician and physician.
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Education

Danielsen Lie studied Ancient Greek, musicology and medicine at the University of Oslo.

Career

Acting career

Danielsen Lie made his film debut when he was 11 years old in the title role of Herman by Erik Gustavson. After that, he didn't act for 16 years, but then he was approached by director Joachim Trier to audition for Trier's film Reprise. He got the role, and took a year off from medical school to star in the film. He has since acted in several of Trier's films, with leading roles in Reprise, Oslo, August 31st and The Worst Person in the World, also known as the Oslo trilogy. Oslo, August 31st was selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw included Danielsen Lie on his top ten list of the best male performances of 2011. In 2016 he starred alongside Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas' supernatural psychological thriller film Personal Shopper, which was selected for main competition at the 69th Cannes film festival. Danielsen Lie is known for playing emotionally complex, sometimes mentally disturbed, characters. In 2018 he portrayed Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks in Paul Greengrass' docudrama 22 July. Danielsen Lie has played Norwegian, English and French-speaking roles. He performed two different versions of his role in The Night Eats the World, one in English and one in French. In 2017 he made his stage acting debut in the role of obituary writer Daniel Woolf in Patrick Marber's play Closer.
Danielsen Lie played major roles in the 2021 films The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier and Bergman Island by Mia Hansen-Løve. Both films were selected for main competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. For his part in The Worst Person in the World he received the 2022 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the performance was named one of the 10 best movie performances of 2021 by Time magazine. The film was also declared the best film of 2021 by Vanity Fair and The Atlantic. In March 2023 it was announced that he was set to work with Glenn Close on director Charlie McDowell's film adaptation of Tove Jansson's novel The Summer Book. He plays iconic jazz pianist Bill Evans in the upcoming feature film Everybody Digs Bill Evans by director Grant Gee.

Music

Danielsen Lie is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar and drums. On 11 April 2011 he released This Is Autism, a concept album with music written, performed and produced by himself, loosely based on recordings from his childhood. On 2 February 2024 he released his second studio album, IDIOSYNCRASY.

Medical career

Anders Danielsen Lie is a medical doctor and in-between movies maintains his practice working as a general practitioner with patients in Oslo. While promoting Bergman Island, he insisted "It doesn't really work and I would never recommend that anybody else combine the two". However, he has continued to maintain both a successful acting career and his medical practice since graduating from medical school. After shooting The Worst Person in the World in the fall of 2020, he started working as a medical supervisor for the COVID-19 vaccination center and contact trace team in the Nordre Aker borough of Oslo.
In 2007 Danielsen Lie and psychologist Maria Øverås authored a Norwegian language non-fiction sexual education book for young adults. The book received an award from the Royal Ministry of Culture and Equality for best non-fiction and was also nominated for the Brage Prize, one of Norway's most prestigious literary awards. He has also written extensively on public health-related topics for Norwegian newspapers and magazines.

Personal life

Danielsen Lie is the son of Amanda Award-winning actor Tone Danielsen. He met Norwegian model Iselin Steiro in 2007, and they married on 5 July 2008. They have two daughters together.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990HermanHerman
2006ReprisePhillip
2011Oslo, August 31stAnders
2014Fidelio: Alice's OdysseyFelix
2015This Summer FeelingLawrence
2016Personal ShopperErwin
2016Approaching the UnknownGreenstreet
2016NobelLieutenant Jon Petter Hals
2017Cleo & PaulDavid
2018The Night Eats the WorldSam
201822 JulyAnders Behring Breivik
2021The Worst Person in the WorldAksel
2021Bergman IslandJoseph/Himself
2022Sick of MyselfDoctor
2024Handling the UndeadDavid
2024Mothers' InstinctSimon
2024The Summer BookFather
2024Quisling: The Final DaysPeder Olsen
2025Sentimental ValueJakob
TBA Everybody Digs Bill EvansBill Evansin main competition at 2026 Berlinale