The Keys to the City of the 27th Umbria Film festival were presented to Trine Dyrholm, an award-winning Danish actress.

Trine’s career began in 1990 with her screen debut in the teen drama Springflod, for which she received a Bodil Award for best actress and immediately gained national recognition. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 1995, and in 1996 was cast in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Greatest Heroes and in 1998 in Festen – Family Feast, the first film produced by the Dogme 95 film movement.

In 2010 she received both the Robert Award and the Bodil Award for her performance as Marianne, Anton’s (Mikael Persbrandt) ex-wife, in Susanne Bier’s film In a Better World, which won the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Trine collaborated again with Susanne Bier in the film Love Is All You Need, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan as a daring hairdresser.

A few years later she starred opposite Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen in Nikolaj Ardel’s Royal Affair, while in 2015 she played a role in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, for which she won a Robert Award and the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

Trine plays the role of Nico in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s 1988 film of the same name Nico, which was voted best film at the Venice Film Festival. Trine then stars in May el-Toukhy’s acclaimed film Queen of Hearts at the Sundance Film Festival where she plays the role of Anne, a successful lawyer who jeopardizes her career and personal life by risking an affair with her teenage stepson.

She won the Best Actress Award at the Zurich Film Festival and FEST International Film Festival, the Best Actress Award at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and another Robert Award for Best Actress.

Recently, she played the role of Queen Margrete in Margaret: Queen of the North, directed by Charlotte Seiling: the most expensive Danish-language film ever produced in Denmark. Trine also stars in the film The Almond and the Seahorse, based on the West End London play, with Rebel Wilson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Celyn Jones.

She recently starred opposite Julianne Moore in the TV series Mary and George. Prior to this she filmed the HBO TV station series Rematch with Christian Cooke, and starred in the film Poison with Tim Roth.