Having grown up in Copenhagen after a childhood stint in Tanzania, Knudsen honed her craft at Paris’s Theatre de l’Ombre between 1987 and 1990 before returning to Denmark’s stage scene. She burst onto the screen with the improvised comedy Let’s Get Lost (1997), a performance that earned her both the Robert and Bodil Awards for Best Actress, and followed it with the box-office hit Den Eneste Ene (1…
