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Sofie Gråbøl (Danish pronunciation: [sofiːˀə ˈɡ̊ʁʌb̥øl]; born 30 July 1968) is a Danish actress. She has starred in a series of films, starting with the lead role in the 1986 film version of Tove Ditlevsen's novel Barndommens gade and at 17 playing alongside Max Von Sydow in Pele the Conqueror. On television she has starred in Taxa, Nikolaj og Julie, and achieved international fame as lead character Detective Inspector Sarah Lund in two series of Forbrydelsen (The Killing). Forbrydelsen played on BBC4 with great success winning a BAFTA award and achieving Gråbøl celebrity status in the UK.
Gråbøl is an actress famous in Denmark with a wide body of work from comedy to Shakespeare. Despite having had no formal training, and only entering acting on the encouragement of her mother as a teenager, she has worked continuously. Responding to a newspaper ad, she got the role of young girl in a film about Paul Gauguin. "I thought it would be like a summer holiday job," she said. "Then one film led to another and suddenly I was an actor and I never really felt that I had made the decision." She said, "I felt at home in the language of acting."
Val McDermid (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.
McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife, and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student from a state school in Scotland (Kirkcaldy High School), and became President of the Junior Common Room. After graduation she became a journalist, and worked briefly as a dramatist. However, her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery, did not appear until 1987.
McDermid's notable characters are a lesbian journalist, Lindsay Gordon; a private investigator, Kate Brannigan; and a psychologist, Tony Hill, who suffers from sexual dysfunction. Her books mainly fall into three series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, and, beginning in 1995, the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, the first entry in which, The Mermaids Singing, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill/Jordan series has been adapted for television under the name Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green. McDermid states that Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is her favourite novel.[citation needed]
Actors: Sofie Gråbøl (actress), Trine Dyrholm (actress), Sedsel Andersen (miscellaneous crew), Thure Lindhardt (actor), David Dencik (actor), Janus Billeskov Jansen (editor), Jens Albinus (actor), Kirsten Olesen (actress), Dejan Cukic (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Laura Drasbæk (actress), Michael Fleischer (producer), Noomi Rapace (actress), Morten Suurballe (actor), Charlotte Munck (actress),
Plot: A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4 month old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
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