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Susanne Bier

Copenhagen, DenmarkBorn April 15, 1960

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 debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010), the later of which earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), Love Is All You Need (2012), Serena (2014), and Bird Box(2018). She directed the BBC One / AMC miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on television, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. She also directed the HBO psychological miniseries The Undoing (2020), the Showtime historical anthology series The First Lady (2022), and the Netflix mystery series, The Perfect Couple (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Susanne Bier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography17

Practical Magic 2
F

Practical Magic 2

2026·2 grades
Bird Box
C

Bird Box

2018·4 grades
A Second Chance

A Second Chance

2015
Serena

Serena

2014
Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need

2012
In a Better World

In a Better World

2010
Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007
After the Wedding

After the Wedding

2006
Brothers

Brothers

2004
Open Hearts

Open Hearts

2002
Once in a Lifetime

Once in a Lifetime

2000
The One and Only

The One and Only

1999
Credo

Credo

1997
Like It Never Was Before

Like It Never Was Before

1995
Family Matters

Family Matters

1993
Letter to Jonas

Letter to Jonas

1992
Freud Leaving Home

Freud Leaving Home

1991