1. Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen was born on 3 July 1965 and is a Danish actress.
19 Facts About Connie Nielsen
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Connie Nielsen has starred as Lucilla in the films Gladiator and Gladiator II and as Queen Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe.
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Connie Nielsen has starred in films such as Soldier, Mission to Mars, One Hour Photo, Basic, The Hunted, The Ice Harvest, Nymphomaniac, 3 Days to Kill, Inheritance, and Nobody.
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Connie Nielsen's father, Bent Nielsen, was a bus driver, and her mother, Laila Inge-lise Matzigkeit, was an insurance clerk, who acted and wrote musical reviews.
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Connie Nielsen was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon.
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Connie Nielsen began her acting career working alongside her mother on the local revue and variety scene.
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Connie Nielsen lived in Italy for many years before moving to the United States.
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Connie Nielsen appeared in the Italian film Vacanze di Natale '91 and the French film Le Paradis Absolument.
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Connie Nielsen moved to the United States in the mid-1990s, and made her first appearance in a major English-language film in 1997 as Christabella Andreoli in The Devil's Advocate, starring opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves.
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In 2000, Connie Nielsen appeared as Lucilla in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, starring opposite Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.
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Connie Nielsen starred in the French thriller Demonlover, directed by Olivier Assayas.
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Connie Nielsen played the Irish mother to an orphan in A Shine of Rainbows.
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Connie Nielsen was nominated for Best Actress at the European Film Awards.
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Connie Nielsen filled in for Mariska Hargitay, who was on maternity leave at the time of filming.
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Connie Nielsen was featured in a series of promotional posters prior to the film's release, a campaign The Independent described as "shocking", observing, "Connie Nielsen appears somewhat moist in this poster for Nymphomaniac".
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Connie Nielsen is known as Queen Hippolyta in DC Extended Universe franchise, appeared in four films beginning with Wonder Woman.
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From 2004 to 2012, Connie Nielsen dated Metallica drummer and fellow Dane, Lars Ulrich.
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Connie Nielsen had a son from a previous marriage to fellow actor Fabio Sartor; and Ulrich has two sons from a previous marriage.
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Connie Nielsen is fluent in her native Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish.