--- name: "Anders Danielsen Lie" canonical: "https://film.one/person/anders-danielsen-lie" fi1m_id: "anders-danielsen-lie" imdb_id: "nm0509264" tmdb_id: 71610 wikidata_id: "Q4753762" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 January 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-30T20:15:03.302868+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Anders Danielsen Lie ## Identity Anders Danielsen Lie - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anders-danielsen-lie - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** anders-danielsen-lie - **IMDb ID:** nm0509264 - **TMDB ID:** 71610 - **Wikidata ID:** Q4753762 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Danielsen_Lie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4753762, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71610 Actor. Born 1 January 1979 in Oslo, Norway. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 January 1979, Oslo, Norway - **Active:** 2016–present - **Also known as:** Андерс Даніельс Лі, 安德斯·丹尼尔森·李 - **Frequently works with:** [Andrea Berentsen Ottmar](https://film.one/person/andrea-berentsen-ottmar.md), [Eskil Vogt](https://film.one/person/eskil-vogt.md), [Joachim Trier](https://film.one/person/joachim-trier.md), [Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/person/renate-reinsve.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 82 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 77 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $38m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Danielsen_Lie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4753762, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71610 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*The Worst Person in the World*](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md) (84) - **Disney+:** [*Sentimental Value*](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) (79) - **AMC+:** [*Personal Shopper*](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Anders Danielsen Lie > Anders Danielsen Lie plays men who are coming apart quietly and would rather not discuss it. His best work is with Joachim Trier; elsewhere, in both films we have reviewed, directors give him a scene or two and move on. Watch what Anders Danielsen Lie does when a scene is not about him. He listens, gives very little, and the little is exact: a man who has decided nobody present needs to know what he is thinking. He has spent most of his career playing people in the middle of a private crisis, thoughtful, sad and sometimes worse than sad, and he plays them without the signals most actors send to warn you a breakdown is coming. It is the least showy way to be noticed, and he has been noticed for it. The career divides neatly. A child part in *Herman* (1990), then sixteen years away studying medicine in Oslo, then Joachim Trier cast him as Phillip in *Reprise* (2006) and kept casting him: as the lead in the second of the Oslo films (2011), playing a man also called Anders; as Aksel in *The Worst Person in the World* (2021); as Jakob in *Sentimental Value* (2025). Four films across nearly twenty years, and his reputation rests on them, above all on that 2011 lead, which is the one people still point to. He has never trained as an actor and he still practises as a GP between films. Of the surgery he has said, "It's a good place to be if you want to study human drama," and whether or not that is the explanation, it fits. He plays men the way a good doctor looks at a patient: closely, patiently, and without deciding in advance what is wrong. Abroad he has been used more sparingly, and not always well. Olivier Assayas gave him Erwin in *Personal Shopper* (2016), where he and Sigrid Bouaziz get one good scene at a kitchen table and are then forgotten. Paul Greengrass cast him as the perpetrator in *22 July* (2018); Mia Hansen-Løve gave him two parts in *Bergman Island* (2021). Even at home, in *Sentimental Value*, Trier hands Jakob only a handful of scenes. We came out of that film wishing he had more of them. He and Reinsve were the couple in *The Worst Person in the World*, and when they share the frame here you remember it, which the new film does little with. The risk is obvious and he knows it. He has said he keeps ending up as the depressed, melancholy one and would like to do different things, and the parts that made his name are exactly that. A performer this careful can look, from a distance, like a performer doing one thing. The two films of his we have reviewed do not settle the question, because neither gives him room to. Somebody should. On the evidence so far he is at his best when a whole picture is built around a man who will not explain himself, and wasted when handed a table, a scene and a director who has moved on. ## Biography Anders Danielsen Lie is a Norwegian actor, musician and physician. He made his film debut at the age of 11 in the title role of *Herman* (1990). He trained in medicine at the University of Oslo, qualifying in 2007, and has continued to practise as a doctor alongside his acting career. Danielsen Lie is best known for his collaborations with director Joachim Trier. He played leading roles in *Reprise* (2006), *Oslo, August 31st* (2011) and *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), the last of which formed part of Trier's Oslo trilogy. *Oslo, August 31st* was selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Other credits include *Personal Shopper* (2016), *22 July* (2018) and *Sentimental Value* (2025), in which he plays Jakob. He is the son of actress Tone Danielsen. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, snl.no.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Sentimental Value* (2025), Fi1m 79, as Jakob — [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) - *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Aksel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md) - *Personal Shopper* (2016), Fi1m 76, as Erwin — [page](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Everybody Digs Bill Evans* (2026), as Bill Evans - *Low Expectations* (2026), as Johannes - *Brave New Love* (2026), as Andreas - *Detective Hole* (2026), series, as Anders Knutsen - *Sentimental Value* (2025), as Jakob — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) - *The Summer Book* (2025), as Father - *Humoretaten* (2025), series, as Anders Danielsen Lie - *Quisling* (2024), series, as Peder Olsen - *Quisling: The Final Days* (2024), as Peder Olsen - *First Case* (2024), as Alexis Servan - *Handling the Undead* (2024), as David - *Mothers' Instinct* (2024), as Simon - *Sick of Myself* (2022), as Doctor - *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), as Aksel — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md) - *Bergman Island* (2021), as Joseph / Anders - *Betrayed* (2020), as Knut Rød - *Seizure* (2019), series, as Max Sørensen - *22 July* (2018), as Anders Behring Breivik - *Cléo & Paul* (2018), as David - *The Night Eats the World* (2018), as Sam - *Rodin* (2017), as Rainer Maria Rilke - *Personal Shopper* (2016), as Erwin — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) - *Nobel* (2016), series, as Jon Petter Hals - *Approaching the Unknown* (2016), as Greenstreet - *This Summer Feeling* (2015), as Lawrence - *Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey* (2014), as Felix - *Deep Control* (2014), as Drug Boss - *Mammon* (2014), series, as Johannes Ritter Hansen - *Oslo, August 31st* (2011), as Anders - *Norwegian Cozy* (2011), series, as Terje - *Empty Barrels* (2010), as Nico - *Hidden* (2009), as Peter - *Reprise* (2006), as Philipp - *Rikets Røst* (2005), series, Actor - *Uti vår hage* (2003), series, Actor - *Herman* (1990), as Herman ## Gallery - ![Actor Anders Danielsen Lie at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/7522/gallery-927632d60130.jpg) Actor Anders Danielsen Lie at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Anders_Danielsen_Lie-0006.jpg/1280px-Anders_Danielsen_Lie-0006.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anders Danielsen Lie](https://film.one/media/person/7522/gallery-9946f771f9e2.jpg) Anders Danielsen Lie — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Anders_Danielsen_Lie-0031.jpg/1280px-Anders_Danielsen_Lie-0031.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anders Danielsen Lie at DIFF 2026, from the video: 'That's A Wrap! 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