Jens Albinus

JJens Albinus (b. 1965, Bogense, Denmark) is an actor, playwright and director, a prominent figure in contemporary Danish theatre and cinema. He trained at Aarhus Theatre, where he worked until 1995, performing leading roles in both classical and contemporary works, from Holberg to Henrik Ibsen and Tony Kushner. Throughout his career, he has worked with some of Denmark’s leading theatre companies and institutions, and performed Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in 2003, as well as on stages in Germany and Switzerland. In cinema, he gained international recognition for his portrayal of Stoffer in Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (1998), followed by roles in Dancer in the Dark (2000) and Antichrist (2009). He also starred in Nils Malmros’s Facing the Truth, for which he received both the Bodil and Robert Awards in 2003. On television, he took the lead role in the crime series The Eagle (2004).