Connie Nielsen

Actress

1965-07-03

Connie Nielsen is a Danish actress known for international film and television work. She has appeared in major historical and contemporary productions, including Gladiator and other high-profile roles. Her career spans European and American projects.

Quotes by Connie Nielsen

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
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I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.
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I drink red wine every night and chamomile tea before bed.
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As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity.
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The size difference on a Warner Bros. film versus the small productions I had been on in Europe was enormous. You go from 20 people on set to 150.
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We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
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For breakfast, I eat organic food with high fat content, such as whole milk yogurt, nuts, seeds, fresh fruit and a scrambled egg. I cook it in organic grape seed oil for its high omega content. I drink a cappuccino for its dose of milk and the coffee for its taste, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
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