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Lone Scherfig

Lone Scherfig

Director · Born 1959-05-02 · Søborg, Danmark

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lone Scherfig (born May 2, 1959) is a Danish film director. She graduated Danish Film School in 1984, and began her career as a director with Kaj's fødselsdag "A Birthday Trip". She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere, 2000), a romantic comedy which among its many international awards won the Silver Berlin Bear (Jury Prize) at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival. It is credited as the most profitable Scandinavian film to date. Most recently she's directed An Education (2009), based on an autobiographical article by British journalist Lynn Barber. The independent film was nominated for three of the 82nd Academy Awards.

Directed

  1. One Day (2011) — Director
  2. An Education (2009) — Director
  3. The Riot Club (2014) — Director
  4. Their Finest (2017) — Director
  5. Italian for Beginners (2000) — Director
  6. The Kindness of Strangers (2019) — Director
  7. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002) — Director
  8. The Movie Teller (2023) — Director
  9. The Astronaut Wives Club (2015) — Director
  10. Better Times (2004) — Director
  11. Just Like Home (2007) — Director
  12. The Birthday Trip (1990) — Director
  13. On Our Own (1998) — Director
  14. Taxa (1997) — Director
  15. The Shift (2022) — Director
  16. Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken (1999) — Director
  17. Jeg er bare den logerende (2005) — Director
  18. Den onde cirkel (1984) — Director
  19. Honeytrap — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Insider (2025) — Sig selv
  2. FreeDogme (2000) — herself
  3. The Idiots Who Started The Party (2020) — Sig selv
  4. Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman (2017) — Self
  5. Ulla Terkelsen i Italien (2015) — Sig selv