Sidse Babett Knudsen Movies & Biography

CAST

THE THREAD (2025)

Starring Daniel Auteuil, Grégory Gadebois, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Alice Belaïdi, Suliane Brahim, Gaëtan Roussel, Isabelle Candelier, Florence Janas, Aurore Auteuil and Laurent Bozzi. Directed by Daniel Auteuil.

Auteuil stars as Jean Monier, a well-past-his-prime defence lawyer who, ever since discovering he was responsible for a killer being exonerated, now prefers to work as a prosecutor. But one evening, Jean agrees to help his over-committed wife and fellow counsel Annie (Sidse Babett Knudsen) by meeting with Nicolas Milik (Grégory Gadebois), a shell-shocked father of five who has just been arrested for the murder of his troubled wife.

Milik’s predicament inexplicably touches Jean; the more he pieces together the events of the night in question, the more he becomes convinced of Milik’s innocence. Soon, Jean rediscovers his passion for his vocation and becomes obsessed with exposing the killer.

LIMBO (2022)

Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Sanjeev Kohli, Cameron Fulton and Lewis Gribben. Directed by Ben Sharrock.

Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.

REVIEWS Limbo - A witty yet humanising look at the refugee experience

THE TRANSLATORS (2020)

Starring Olga Kurylenko, Lambert Wilson, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Alex Lawther, Riccardo Scamarcio, Sara Giraudeau, Eduardo Noriega, Manolis Mavromatakis, Anna Maria Sturm and Maria Leite. Directed by Régis Roinsard.

The eagerly awaited final book of a best-selling Dragon Tattoo-esque French trilogy is about to be globally released, and nine international language experts have been hired to translate it into their native tongues (English, Danish, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Greek and German). With the stakes so high, the supercilious publisher (Lambert Wilson) has them on lock-down, confined together in a bunker – without any contact to the outside world – until the task is completed.

So when the first ten pages of the top-secret manuscript inexplicably leak online with a ransom threat, it’s evident that the thief could only be amongst them. Their increasingly paranoid and desperate captor is ready to do whatever it takes to unmask him... or her... or them.

INFERNO (2016)

Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy and Sidse Babett Knudsen. Directed by Ron Howard.

When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante’s “Inferno.”

REVIEWS Inferno - Robert Langdon's trail goes ponderously cold

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (2016)

Starring Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Tom Skerritt, Alexander Black, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Jane Perry, Michael Baral and Lewis Rainer. Directed by Tom Twyker.

Cultures collide when an American businessman is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise- cracking taxi driver and a beautiful Saudi doctor.

REVIEWS A Hologram for the King - A charming fish-out-of-water story

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2015)

Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna and Kata Bartsch. Directed by Peter Strickland.

Day after day, Cynthia and Evelyn act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn’s punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn’s obsession with erotic spells quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relationship to a breaking point.