Iben Hjejle

Acting

Iben Hjejle

Born March 22, 1971 · København, Danmark (age 55)

Iben Hjejle (born March 22, 1971) is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the John Cusack film High Fidelity (2000). In Denmark, she is best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas (Far from Las Vegas), and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her former real life boyfriend. She also plays Christensen's girlfriend in the sitcom Klovn (C…

Known For

ShabholmShabholm · 2023
Shabholm
4.82023
MovieAnimationComedy
An oil sheik has bought Bornholm and turned the Danish island into a Middle Eastern holiday paradise – for shababs only.
High FidelityHigh Fidelity · 2000
High Fidelity
7.12000
MovieDramaComedy
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
DefianceDefiance · 2008
Defiance
6.82008
MovieDramaHistory
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
ChériChéri · 2009
Chéri
6.12009
MovieDramaComedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Stockholm EastStockholm East · 2011
Stockholm East
5.42011
MovieDrama
Stockholm East is the love story between two strangers, bound together by a tragedy that has taken its toll on both their lives and relationships. When Johan and Anna meet at the railway station connecting Stockholm with the idyllic suburbs where they both live, they embark on a dangerous journey of passion and lies.
PossessedPossessed · 1999
Possessed
4.91999
MovieHorror
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.
The Good CopThe Good Cop · 2004
The Good Cop
6.42004
MovieActionComedy
A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
MifuneMifune · 1999
Mifune
7.01999
MovieDramaComedy
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.

Movies

ShabholmShabholm · 2023
Shabholm
4.82023
MovieAnimationComedy
An oil sheik has bought Bornholm and turned the Danish island into a Middle Eastern holiday paradise – for shababs only.
High FidelityHigh Fidelity · 2000
High Fidelity
7.12000
MovieDramaComedy
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
DefianceDefiance · 2008
Defiance
6.82008
MovieDramaHistory
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
ChériChéri · 2009
Chéri
6.12009
MovieDramaComedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Stockholm EastStockholm East · 2011
Stockholm East
5.42011
MovieDrama
Stockholm East is the love story between two strangers, bound together by a tragedy that has taken its toll on both their lives and relationships. When Johan and Anna meet at the railway station connecting Stockholm with the idyllic suburbs where they both live, they embark on a dangerous journey of passion and lies.
PossessedPossessed · 1999
Possessed
4.91999
MovieHorror
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.
The Good CopThe Good Cop · 2004
The Good Cop
6.42004
MovieActionComedy
A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
MifuneMifune · 1999
Mifune
7.01999
MovieDramaComedy
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.
Sweet DreamsSweet Dreams · 2003
Sweet Dreams
6.42003
MovieDramaRomance
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
Dreaming of JuliaDreaming of Julia · 2003
Dreaming of Julia
6.02003
MovieComedyDrama
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
Annas dagAnnas dag · 2003
Annas dag
6.52003
Movie
A single mother and her young son experience a turbulent 24 hours when her ex-husband/their father is about to marry another woman.
MaretMaret · 2023
Maret
5.52023
MovieDrama
After losing part of her memory, Maret, 44, sets out to find out who she used to be. She learns about the many different life paths she followed, in none of which anything was ever really achieved. A profoundly unhappy person in a never-ending, headlong rush. A doctor on the island of Lanzarote offers to put this restlessness to an end through brain surgery. A promise of peace and satisfaction. Will Maret proceed with the surgery that would take away part of her being - or not?
Flickering LightsFlickering Lights · 2000
Flickering Lights
7.12000
MovieActionComedy
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
The Idiots Who Started The PartyThe Idiots Who Started The Party · 2020
The Idiots Who Started The Party
6.02020
MovieDocumentary
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.
Fuck UpFuck Up · 2012
Fuck Up
5.42012
MovieCrimeComedy
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
Klown ForeverKlown Forever · 2015
Klown Forever
5.82015
MovieComedy
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
The EclipseThe Eclipse · 2009
The Eclipse
6.02009
MovieDramaHorror
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.
Gustav III:s äktenskapGustav III:s äktenskap · 2001
Gustav III:s äktenskap
8.02001
MovieDramaHistory
At 30 years old King Gustav III has a number of great projects behind him already, but his most demanding in front of him - to consummate his marriage and put an heir on the throne. With both determination and anxiety the king begins his amorous battle to secure succession.
The Boss of It AllThe Boss of It All · 2006
The Boss of It All
6.62006
MovieComedy
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to play the part.
The Emperor's New ClothesThe Emperor's New Clothes · 2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
6.82001
MovieComedyDrama
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs IIOld Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II · 2002
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
6.82002
MovieActionComedy
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
Every Child is Made of FireEvery Child is Made of Fire · 2013
Every Child is Made of Fire
2013
MovieDrama
Every Child is Made of Fire tells the story about Anne, a woman in her late thirties who leaves her job as an engineer to start working at a home for disadvantaged youth. Here she meets Mikael who has killed his father with a knife. It is a meeting between a person who wants to provide care, and a person who is obviously in need of so - a meeting that gets unexpected and dramatic consequences.
Mugge & Super HappyMugge & Super Happy · 2025
Mugge & Super Happy
3.82025
MovieAnimationComedy
When the codes for Sofia and Mugge's ingenious new game invention, Super Happy, are stolen and misused by an unknown mastermind, the two friends must embark on an adventurous virtual world to save all the inhabitants of the town of Basserup from being swallowed up by the game forever.
Freak Out!Freak Out! · 2014
Freak Out!
3.72014
MovieDocumentary
Long-haired, barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs... The sixties, right? Not quite. In 1900 a group of middle class kids revolted against their time and started the original alternative community - Monte Verità, the mountain of truth. A community based on veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love. This creative documentary mixes interviews, archive and animation in a beautiful combination bringing you straight back to the early 1900 as seen through the eyes of these young radicals. The documentary Freak Out tells the untold story of the birth of the alternative movement and unfold the uncanny similarities between our time and what they revolted against in the early 1900s.

TV Shows

WallanderWallander · 2005
Wallander
6.92005
SeriesDramaMystery
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
SkavlanSkavlan · 2009
Skavlan
5.02009
Series
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."
The RainThe Rain · 2018
The Rain
7.22018
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
KlovnKlovn · 2005
Klovn
8.52005
SeriesComedy
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.
DicteDicte · 2013
Dicte
6.92013
SeriesCrimeDrama
Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.
All ExclusiveAll Exclusive · 2022
All Exclusive
10.02022
SeriesComedyDocumentary
In a new documentary interview experiment, the focus is on the meeting between Casper Christensen and his hand-picked guests - where the viewers get a completely new insight into the lives and personalities of both Casper and the guests.
ZULU Comedy GallaZULU Comedy Galla · 2010
ZULU Comedy Galla
10.02010
SeriesComedyFamily
Hvem vil være millionær? ClassicHvem vil være millionær? Classic · 1999
Hvem vil være millionær? Classic
1999
SeriesFamily
Den Danske version af 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire',
Anna PihlAnna Pihl · 2006
Anna Pihl
7.62006
SeriesCrimeDrama
A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.
Live from BremenLive from Bremen · 2009
Live from Bremen
5.02009
SeriesComedy
Live from Bremen has been described as the successor to Casper and the Mandril Agreement, as the show has the Mandril Agreement's Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj as permanent fixtures, as well as Casper Christensen as lead author and man of ideas. The show is broadcast live from Bremen, the former Private Theater in Copenhagen, and is followed by Casper Christensen's talk show ALOHA! sent from the same place. Live from Bremen is inspired by the American sketch and satire show Saturday Night Live.
Far from Las VegasFar from Las Vegas · 2001
Far from Las Vegas
6.72001
SeriesComedy
Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003.
Med på noderneMed på noderne · 2017
Med på noderne
2017
SeriesFamily
SecretsSecrets · 2024
Secrets
6.02024
SeriesDrama
Siblings Eva and Mads battle personal demons – Eva's crumbling business and secret affair, Mads's descent into addiction – as they strive to break free from destructive patterns, testing the limits of familial bonds.
Ditte & LouiseDitte & Louise · 2015
Ditte & Louise
6.32015
SeriesComedy
Two actresses in their forties meet at a casting. Since they are both struggling to get jobs they decide to team up and make their own thing. But it's uphill, and they're certainly over the hill, in the eyes of the industry. Despite their differences, the two women become friends.
LøgnenLøgnen · 2025
Løgnen
9.02025
SeriesDrama
100% Sjov100% Sjov · 2024
100% Sjov
10.02024
SeriesComedyFamily
Zulu BingoZulu Bingo · 2003
Zulu Bingo
8.02003
SeriesFamily
Den hemmelige tunnelDen hemmelige tunnel · 1997
Den hemmelige tunnel
7.71997
SeriesFamily
Hjernemassage med Jan HellesøeHjernemassage med Jan Hellesøe · 2021
Hjernemassage med Jan Hellesøe
2.02021
SeriesFamily
12 uger i helvede12 uger i helvede · 2021
12 uger i helvede
2021
SeriesDocumentary
Deja-vu med FrøkjærDeja-vu med Frøkjær · 2021
Deja-vu med Frøkjær
2021
Series
Riising Late NightRiising Late Night · 2019
Riising Late Night
2019
Series
Dansk films bedsteDansk films bedste · 2022
Dansk films bedste
7.02022
SeriesDocumentary
Troldspejlet & Co.Troldspejlet & Co. · 2019
Troldspejlet & Co.
2019
Series