FILM DIRECTOR

Susanne Bier

1960 - Today

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Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier made her feature film debut with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susanne Bier has received more than 1,330,960 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Susanne Bier is the 469th most popular film director (down from 458th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 228th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Film Director.

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  • 61.09

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  • 35

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  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Susanne Bier ranks 469 out of 2,041. Before her are Nadine Trintignant, Tom Holland, Patricio Guzmán, Mauro Bolognini, André Cayatte, and Mauritz Stiller. After her are Walter Frentz, Michael Radford, John Hughes, Robert Rossen, Richard Lester, and Moshé Mizrahi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Susanne Bier ranks 100. Before her are Kevin Carter, Ersin Tatar, Takashi Miike, Fabiola Gianotti, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, and Kim Wilde. After her are Axel Rudi Pell, Marcel Koller, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ahmed Jabari, Abdullah Abdullah, and Karch Kiraly.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Susanne Bier ranks 243 out of 1,032. Before her are Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922), Erik Scavenius (1877), Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Count Ingolf of Rosenborg (1940), and Christen Købke (1810). After her are Eugenius Warming (1841), Helena Christensen (1968), Hans Tausen (1494), Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), and Max Heindel (1865).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Susanne Bier ranks 6. Before her are Lars von Trier (1956), Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889), Bille August (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), and Thomas Vinterberg (1969). After her are Henning Carlsen (1927), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Erik Balling (1924), Urban Gad (1879), Benjamin Christensen (1879), and Nicolas Winding Refn (1970).

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