---
name: "Meta Louise Foldager"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/meta-louise-foldager-srensen"
fi1m_id: "meta-louise-foldager-srensen"
imdb_id: "nm0284070"
tmdb_id: 42099
wikidata_id: "Q12326773"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 October 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-06T04:27:56.725509+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."
---

# Meta Louise Foldager

## Identity

Meta Louise Foldager

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/meta-louise-foldager-srensen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** meta-louise-foldager-srensen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0284070
- **TMDB ID:** 42099
- **Wikidata ID:** Q12326773
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12326773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42099

Producer. Born 16 October 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 October 1974
- **Active:** 2009–2017
- **Also known as:** Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Meta Foldager
- **Frequently works with:** [Charlotte Gainsbourg](https://film.one/person/charlotte-gainsbourg.md), [Lars von Trier](https://film.one/person/lars-von-trier.md), [Louise Vesth](https://film.one/person/louise-vesth.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 55 (1), 2010s 75 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 62 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, History 1, Horror 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $58m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12326773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42099

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Melancholia*](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md) (80), [*A Royal Affair*](https://film.one/film/a-royal-affair.md) (70)
- **Apple TV:** [*Antichrist*](https://film.one/film/antichrist.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen is a Danish film and television producer. She graduated with a master's degree in film and media science from the University of Copenhagen in 1999.

She founded her own company, Meta Film, in 2010 and co-founded SAM Productions in 2014 with screenwriters Søren Sveistrup and Adam Price to focus on television projects. Foldager Sørensen produced Lars von Trier's *Antichrist* (2009) and *Melancholia* (2011), and was a producer on Nikolaj Arcel's *A Royal Affair* (2012), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. She has also produced *Summer of '92* (2015) and served as executive producer on series including *The Chestnut Man* (2021) and *Ragnarok* (2020).

In 2004 she received the Natsværmerpris for emerging Danish filmmakers, and she shared the Nordic Council Film Prize for *Antichrist* in 2009.

*Sources: dfi.dk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Wife* (2017), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wife.md)
- *A Royal Affair* (2012), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-royal-affair.md)
- *Melancholia* (2011), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md)
- *Antichrist* (2009), Fi1m 55, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/antichrist.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Last Resort* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Kingmaker* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Nurse* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Empire* (2023), Producer
- *Elvira* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Orchestra* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Borgen - Power & Glory* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Chestnut Man* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Ragnarok* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Until We Fall* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Aniara* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Friheden* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Border* (2018), Executive Producer
- *I am William* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Ride Upon the Storm* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *The Wife* (2017), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wife.md)
- *Mercur* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Swinger* (2016), Producer
- *What We Become* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Summer of '92* (2015), Producer
- *In Your Arms* (2015), Executive Producer
- *A Royal Affair* (2012), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/a-royal-affair.md)
- *Rainbow Monkeys* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Rupture* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Rebounce* (2011), Producer
- *Melancholia* (2011), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md)
- *Truth About Men* (2010), Producer
- *Antichrist* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/antichrist.md)
- *Go with Peace Jamil* (2008), Producer
- *Island of Lost Souls* (2007), Producer
- *The Boss of It All* (2006), Producer
- *Twinkle Twinkle Little Star* (2006), Producer
- *Angels in Fast Motion* (2005), Producer
- *My Dad Is a Champ* (2005), Producer
- *King's Game* (2004), Producer
- *Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)* (2004), Co-Producer
- *Rule No. 1* (2003), Associate Producer

## Gallery

- ![Meta Louise Foldager](https://film.one/media/person/100594/gallery-88c66e5b12c5.jpg) Meta Louise Foldager — MetaFoldager, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Meta_Louise_Foldager.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Meta Louise Foldager mottar Nordiska rådets filmpris som tilldelades Lars Von Tries Antichrist. Vid prisutdelninge vid Nordiska rådets session i Stockholm 2009](https://film.one/media/person/100594/gallery-a9d0b3df1634.jpg) Meta Louise Foldager mottar Nordiska rådets filmpris som tilldelades Lars Von Tries Antichrist. Vid prisutdelninge vid Nordiska rådets session i Stockholm 2009 — Magnus Fröderberg, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Meta_Louise_Foldager_mottar_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_som_tilldelades_Lars_Von_Tries_Antichrist._Vid_prisutdelninge_vid_Nordiska_radets_session_i_Stockholm_2009.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Meta Louise Foldager tar emot Nordiska rådets filmpris 2009 vid sessionen i Stockholm 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/100594/gallery-2628085c7b86.jpg) Meta Louise Foldager tar emot Nordiska rådets filmpris 2009 vid sessionen i Stockholm 2009. — Magnus Fröderberg, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Meta_Louise_Foldager_tar_emot_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2009_vid_sessionen_i_Stockholm_2009.jpg/1280px-Meta_Louise_Foldager_tar_emot_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2009_vid_sessionen_i_Stockholm_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Nordic Council Film Prize 2023: Nordic Council Film Prize (won), for *Empire*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2011: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *Melancholia*
- Nordic Council Film Prize 2009: Nordic Council Film Prize (won), for *Antichrist*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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