Nationality Danish | Name Ole Bornedal Role Film director | |
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Children Fanny Bornedal, Claudia Bornedal, Peter Bornedal, Johan Bornedal Awards Robert Award for Best Danish Film Nominations Robert Award for Best Director Movies and TV shows Similar People Natasha Calis, Helle Fagralid, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport, Jeffrey Dean Morgan | ||
Sam Raimi & Ole Bornedal Talk 'The Possession' At Movie's Premiere
Ole Bornedal (born 26 May 1959) is a Danish film director, actor and producer.
Bornedal was born in Nørresundby, Denmark. He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake (Nightwatch) in 1997, starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, he directed I Am Dina. Other Danish films include The Substitute (2007), Just Another Love Story (2007), and Deliver Us from Evil. In 2012, he directed the English-language film The Possession. He was one of the producers of Mimic. In 2014 he wrote and directed the epic historical drama 1864, the most expensive Danish TV series in history, chronicling the Second Schleswig War through the story of two brothers.
He is married to the Danish actress, Helle Fagralid, and has three children.