Anders Danielsen Lie

Anders Danielsen Lie (; born 1 January 1979) is a Norwegian actor, musician and physician.

Education Danielsen Lie studied Ancient Greek (1997–1998), musicology (2001–2003) and medicine (1999–2007) at the University of Oslo.

Career Acting career Danielsen Lie made his film debut when he was 11 years old in the title role of Herman (1990) by Erik Gustavson. After that, he didn't act for 16 years, but then he was approached by director Joachim Trier to audition for Trier's film Reprise. He got the role, and took a year off from medical school to star in the film. He has since acted in several of Trier's films, The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw included Danielsen Lie on his top ten list of the best male performances of 2011. In 2016 he starred alongside Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas' supernatural psychological thriller film Personal Shopper, which was selected for main competition at the 69th Cannes film festival. Danielsen Lie is known for playing emotionally complex, sometimes mentally disturbed, characters. In 2018 he portrayed Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks in Paul Greengrass' docudrama 22 July. Danielsen Lie has played Norwegian, English and French-speaking roles. He performed two different versions of his role in The Night Eats the World, one in English and one in French. In 2017 he made his stage acting debut in the role of obituary writer Daniel Woolf in Patrick Marber's play Closer (1997).

Danielsen Lie played major roles in the 2021 films The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier and Bergman Island by Mia Hansen-Løve. Both films were selected for main competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. For his part in The Worst Person in the World he received the 2022 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the performance was named one of the 10 best movie performances of 2021 by Time magazine. The film was also declared the best film of 2021 by Vanity Fair and The Atlantic. In March 2023 it was announced that he was set to work with Glenn Close on director Charlie McDowell's film adaptation of Tove Jansson's novel The Summer Book. He plays iconic jazz pianist Bill Evans in the upcoming feature film Everybody Digs Bill Evans by director Grant Gee.

Music Danielsen Lie is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar and drums. On 11 April 2011 he released This Is Autism, a concept album with music written, performed and produced by himself, loosely based on recordings from his childhood.

In 2007 Danielsen Lie and psychologist Maria Øverås authored a Norwegian language non-fiction sexual education book for young adults (Sex og sånt, Gyldendal, ). The book received an award from the Royal Ministry of Culture and Equality for best non-fiction and was also nominated for the Brage Prize, one of Norway's most prestigious literary awards. He has also written extensively on public health-related topics for Norwegian newspapers and magazines.

Personal life Danielsen Lie is the son of Amanda Award-winning actor Tone Danielsen. He met Norwegian model Iselin Steiro in 2007, They have two daughters together.

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