Actor: Connie Nielsen

Connie Nielsen worked across Europe in French and Italian productions before Hollywood, and speaks several languages fluently, which shaped a career of composed, slightly remote characters.

Gladiator gave her Lucilla, whose position requires her to conceal everything she thinks for the entire film, and she plays it almost entirely with the eyes.

The Devil’s Advocate and Mission to Mars filled the early American work, and she returned to prominence as Hippolyta in the Wonder Woman films.

Nymphomaniac for Lars von Trier is the outlier, and she has moved between Danish and American work consistently.