CONNIE NIELSEN (Denmark, 1965): ACTRESS

 

 Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen (born 3 July 1965) is a Danish actress.

She has starred as Lucilla in the films Gladiator (2000) and Gladiator II (2024) (both have posts in my blog) and as Queen Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe (2017–2021).

She has also starred in films such as Soldier (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Basic (2003) (it has a post in my blog), The Hunted (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Nymphomaniac (2013), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Inheritance (2020), Nobody (2021) and its sequel Nobody 2 (2025): good comedy thriller film.

She also had roles as New York Police Department Detective Dani Beck, the temporary partner of Christopher Meloni's Elliot Stabler in the NBC crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2006), the Starz political drama series Boss (2011–2012), the Fox crime thriller series The Following (2014), and the TNT limited drama series I Am the Night (2019), and starred in the Channel 4 drama series.