Susanne Bier
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Bier in 2011 | |
| Born | 15 April 1960 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Alma mater | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Architectural Association in London, National Film School of Denmark |
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| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse(s) | Tómas Gislason (198?–?; divorced) Philip Zandén (1995–?; divorced) Jesper Winge Leisner (?-present) |
| Children | Gabriel Bier Gislason, Alice Bier Zandén |
Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager).
Bier made her feature film debut with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She has directed a string of films including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006), and In a Better World (2010), where After the Wedding earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), Love Is All You Need (2012), Serena (2014), and Bird Box (2018).
On television, she directed the BBC One / AMC miniseries The Night Manager (2016) earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. She also directed the HBO psychological miniseries The Undoing (2020), the Showtime historical anthology series The First Lady (2022), and the Netflix mystery series The Perfect Couple (2024).