Trine Michelsen

Trine Michelsens first role as an actress was a small role in Cyklen, a project film at the Danish film academy. Shortly after school she got a role in a TV play by Franz Ernst and Astrid Saalbach. In the play she is a strong and politically committed woman. Later she became a nude model in Ekstra Bladet and Ugens Rapport.

This gave her roles in two horror films and two erotic films in Italy from 1986. In La bonne by Salvatore Samperi,[2] Trine Michelsen is a maid who arouses the inhabitants of a house erotically. The film was a success in Italy. The following year came Sergio Bergonzellis Tentazione which was even more erotic. The same year she played opposite Donald Pleasence in the splatter film Spettri directed by Marcello Avallone. Her last Italian film was the 1987 thriller Le foto di Gioia by Lamberto Bava.

Her only American film came in 1988 in a small role in The Girl in a Swing, Gordon Hesslers adaptation of Richard Adams’ novel by the same name. Lack of success made focus on her model career, but she returned to acting in 1994 playing a prostitute in Vibeke Gad's unemployment drama Eva. In 1998 she was the most nude collectivist in Lars von Triers Dogme-film The Idiots.[3]

Trine Michelsen was the daughter of journalist and author Ole Michelsen and his wife Nina Varberg, who died in a car accident four years after Trine's birth. She was without contact to her father for years until they were reconciled in the 1990s.[4]

In April 2005 she told publicly that she had cancer. In December it had spread to most of the body. Trine Michelsen died 17 January 2009 in a nursing home in Emdrup.[5] She was buried at Frederiksberg Church.[6]

• La bonne (1986)
• Tentazione (1987)
• Spettri (1987)
• Le foto di Gioia (1987)
• The Girl on a Swing (1988)
• Trines fantasier (1994)
• The Idiots (1998)
• De ydmygede (1998)
• Antenneforeningen (1999)