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name: "Ole Christian Madsen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ole-christian-madsen"
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imdb_id: "nm0535234"
tmdb_id: 56195
wikidata_id: "Q939321"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "18 June 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-23T13:44:06.177940+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."
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# Ole Christian Madsen

## Identity

Ole Christian Madsen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ole-christian-madsen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ole-christian-madsen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0535234
- **TMDB ID:** 56195
- **Wikidata ID:** Q939321
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Christian_Madsen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q939321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535234/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56195

Producer and director. Born 18 June 1966 in Roskilde, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 18 June 1966, Roskilde, Danmark
- **Also known as:** OC Madsen
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Christian_Madsen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q939321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535234/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56195

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Banshee*](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md) (72)

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## Biography

Ole Christian Madsen is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Born on 18 June 1966 in Roskilde, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in its "Golden Year" alongside Thomas Vinterberg and Per Fly. He began his career directing television series before making his feature debut with *Sinan's Wedding* (1997).

His feature films include *Kira's Reason: A Love Story* (2001), which won Bodil and Robert awards, *Angels in Fast Motion* (2005), *Prague* (2006), *Flame & Citron* (2008) and *SuperClásico* (2011). On television he has directed episodes of *Rejseholdet*, *Edderkoppen* and ten episodes of the American series *Banshee* (2013–2016), on which he also served as executive producer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, banshee.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Banshee* (2013), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Boundless* (2024), Director, Script Consultant
- *The Shift* (2022), series, Director
- *The Idiots Who Started The Party* (2020), as Sig selv
- *The Day We Died* (2020), Writer, Director
- *The Kindness of Strangers* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Backstabbing for Beginners* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Itsi Bitsi* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Banshee* (2013), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md)
- *Banshee: Origins* (2013), series, Director
- *Superclasico* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Flame & Citron* (2008), Screenplay, Director
- *Prague* (2006), Director
- *Angels in Fast Motion* (2005), Director, Screenplay
- *Kira's Reason: A Love Story* (2001), Director, Writer
- *Unit One* (2000), series, Director
- *The Spider* (2000), series, Director, Creator
- *Pizza King* (1999), Director
- *Taxa* (1997), series, Director
- *Sinan's Wedding* (1997), Director, Writer
- *Kun for forrykte: Eik Skaløe og Steppeulvene* (1988), Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Ole Christian Madsen](https://film.one/media/person/1339942/gallery-94cac9483a4a.jpg) Ole Christian Madsen — Rastrojo (D•ES), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Ole_Christian_Madsen_-_Seminci_2011.jpg/1280px-Ole_Christian_Madsen_-_Seminci_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ole Christian Madsen](https://film.one/media/person/1339942/gallery-8ab10652c989.jpg) Ole Christian Madsen — Image via TMDB
- ![Ole Christian Madsen](https://film.one/media/person/1339942/gallery-7ea5a893f65f.jpg) Ole Christian Madsen — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Robert Award for Best Director 2002: Robert Award for Best Director (won), for *Kira's Reason: A Love Story*
- Robert Award for Best Screenplay 2002: Robert Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *Kira's Reason: A Love Story*

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

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