Known for Acting
Anne Louise Hassing is a Danish actress who graduated from the Statens Teaterskole in 1997. She is the daughter of chief physician Folmer Hassing Nielsen and pediatric dentist Linnea Rasmussen. She made her film debut in Nils Malmros' The Pain of Love (1992), for which she won both a Robert and a Bodil for best female lead. She again received a Bodil in 1999, this time for her next film performance in Lars von Trier's Idiots. She has also participated in the film adaptations of Jane Aamund's novels Klinkevals and Juliane as well as in the TV series Strisser på Samsø and De pokker's parents. 2004-2007 she had great success with her role as Ida in the drama series Krøniken. It won her the award for Female TV Actress of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2007, she participated in the TV series Wild with Dance with Michael Olesen. The pair achieved a 6th place. Anne Louise Hassing is a Buddhist and affiliated with the Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect. She is married to the musician Peter Hellemann.
Born
September 17, 1967 (age 59)
Birthplace
Horsens, Denmark
Filmography
22 films, 25 shows


Sidste Tjek Ind på Badehotellet
2025
country: Denmark


A Boy's Dream
2023 · 30m
country: Denmark
Elias dreams of a family. Christian is happy about their free existence in an open relationship, where they have time and money to travel, buy expensive designer furniture and love each other. Elias has been able to keep his longing at bay for a long time, but when he starts his new job as a psychologist at a school home, it is as if the burden is overflowing. He must face the fact that a life without a human responsibility for others than himself can never be a happy life for him.


The Complaint
2023 · 44m
country: Denmark
Mona is participating in a weekend team building event with her colleagues, when she receives an anonymous complaint from HR for inappropriate workplace behavior. Now, a game of "whodunnit" unfolds, as she tries to smoke out the colleague, who filed the complaint against her.


The Idiots Who Started The Party
2020 · 59m
country: Denmark
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The Idiots' during the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 put Denmark on the film world map. Another eight films under the strict Dogme rules followed and created great international careers for several of the talents in front of and behind the handheld camera. Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Lone Scherfig, Sonja Richter and many more of the country's greatest filmmakers look back on when Denmark became Dogme.


City singler - Gammel vin på nye tasker
2020
country: Denmark
Trine, Kaya, and Anne Sofie take you on a rollercoaster ride through their wonderful, awkward, beautiful, and imperfect lives in City Singlers' 10th anniversary show.


City Singler 3 - Trimmet I 3-Kanten
2015
country: Denmark


Speed Walking
2014 · 1h 48m
country: Denmark
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion.
Den perfekte middag
Den perfekte middag
2013
country: Denmark


Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.


The Hunt
2012 · 1h 56m
country: Denmark
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
City singler 2 - Frækkere i 2'eren
City singler 2 - Frækkere i 2'eren
2012 · 1h 44m
country: Unknown
In this sequel, City Singler 2 features the same outspoken quartet: Denmark's funniest women letting loose in this live recording at the Aarhus Concert Hall.


Over the Edge
2012 · 1h 39m
country: Denmark
Just as David and Freja arrive at their newly bought country house close to the Cliffs of Møn the harmony is disturbed by an inexplicably suicide. When David realizes that their new craftsman Roar is linked to the person who fell of the cliff he starts being suspicious. David is also certain that Roar is hitting on Freja. She denies this and all Davids theories. David joins forces with the widow Veronica to solve the case and prove to Freja that he is right. But the closer he gets the truth the further away he gets from Freja. David has to risk everything to unveil circumstances that go far beyond his imagination...


This Life
2012 · 2h 2m
country: Denmark
The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.


City Singler Sko, Håb & Kærlighed
2010
country: Unknown
"Sex and the City" has met its match with this live show which premiered March 2010 at the Glass Hall in Tivoli. This naughty and seductive perforamance is a perfect female counterpart to the Sons of the Desert.


A Family
2010 · 1h 42m
country: Denmark
Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family.


Beast
2009 · 15m
country: Denmark
Ten year old Benjamin and his mother live on an isolated farm under the violent reign of his father. Mother takes the beating and tries to cover up to keep things normal. But when Benjamin one day witnesses this beating, his suspicions are turned into facts. Benjamin wants his father to apologize to his mother for hitting her. Benjamin naively believes that things can be set straight with words alone. When Benjamin worsens the situation by taking his father's puppy as a hostage things escalate to a point where his mother has to step up and do what she should have done a long time ago.


Father of Four: Living Large
2006 · 1h 30m
country: Denmark
It's summer, it's sunny and it's Sunday. The car is packed, and Dad and the kids are on the way to Bornholm on vacation. But then comes the postman with a registered letter to Uncle Donald. He has inherited an estate on Funen, and he must urgently turn to take over the castle.


Juliane
2000
country: Denmark
Christianshavn 1894 - Headstrong Juliane fights alongside her husband Otto for love and family in strike-ridden Christianshavn. The couple has been married for five years and has two children together. Trade union politics are taking up more and more of Otto's life, and Juliane cannot even get him to tone it down at family gatherings, so Juliane has her hands full keeping track of the home and the children. The family argues about big and small things, from the sisters' disagreement about women's liberation to Otto's political involvement.


Two Penny Dance
1999 · 1h 35m
country: Denmark
The story of Juliane, a young woman who learns how to take her fate in her own hands and to trust nobody but herself. The plot is set in the Copenhagen tenements of the 1880s. Juliane is trapped in an unhappy marriage to a man who suffers extended periods of insanity. They have two children. She struggles to improve her social status, however, striving to attain the level of her two elder sisters is not easy. The great upheaval comes when she meets Otto, a smith, younger than Juliane, and in many ways her opposite. He is an ardent socialist, whereas she believes in herself. It is love at first sight when they meet and waltz on the pavement, but their passion really bursts into flame as time goes by. At last Juliane has found a man as strong-willed as she is.


The Humiliated
1998 · 1h 19m
country: Denmark
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".


The Idiots
1998 · 1h 50m
country: Denmark
A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of 'idiots'. Their primary activity becomes going out into the world of 'normal' people and pretending to be mentally incompetent. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy, and, by every possible means, to make those around them miserable.


Pain of Love
1992 · 2h
country: Denmark
A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.