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Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1983-10-16

Place of Birth

Skanderborg, Danmark

Johanne Louise Schmidt

Biography

Johanne Louise Schmidt (born 16 October 1983 in Skanderborg) is a Danish actress. Graduating from the Danish National School of Theatre in 2009, she began her career on stage and joined the permanent ensemble Det Røde Rum at the Royal Danish Theatre in 2011. She achieved cinematic prominence by portraying the recurring role of Rose, the assistant in Department Q, in the film adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's crime novels: The Absent One (Fasandræberne, 2014), A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P, 2016), and The Purity of Vengeance (Journal 64, 2018). On television, she notably appeared in the drama series DNA (2019) and Min kamp (2021). She continues her film career with roles in The Exception (Undtagelsen, 2020), Bamse (2022), and Beginnings (Begyndelser, 2026). Alongside her live-action work, she regularly performs voice-over and dubbing for animated films in Danish.

Known for

Krejlerkongen

Krejlerkongen

Carmen Curlers

Carmen Curlers

In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

DNA

DNA

Five years after his daughter disappeared, a mistake in the National Police's DNA register makes it possible for the officer Rolf to finally find out what happened to her.

White Sands

White Sands

To solve the brutal murder of a young German surfer, two officers are secretly sent to the tourist paradise Hvide Sande on Denmark's west coast. No one in the city trusts the police, so they go undercover as a happily married couple from the big city.

Oxen

Oxen

War veteran and former hunter soldier Niels Oxen, Denmark's most decorated soldier ever. Sent home with war trauma, he tries to create meaning in life and to make everyday life fit together.

Borgen - Power & Glory

Borgen - Power & Glory

Foreign Minister Birgitte Nyborg finds her career in jeopardy when a dispute over oil in Greenland threatens to become an international crisis.

Rivalerne

Rivalerne

A biologist's struggle to rewild a river divides the town of Elverkilde, shatters her family, and uncovers dark secrets from the past.

A Conspiracy of Faith

A Conspiracy of Faith

Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.

The Purity of Vengeance

The Purity of Vengeance

Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

Snow Angels

Snow Angels

Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.

The Exception

The Exception

When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide?

The Absent One

The Absent One

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

Unsinkable

Unsinkable

The brand new and unsinkable rescue boat RF2 goes down on one of its first rescue missions in 1981, Hirtshals. 9 men died. Henrik, the son of the captain of RF2, starts an investigation as his father is set to blame for the accident. However, Henrik faces opposition from the townspeople, meanwhile grief threatens to tear Henrik's family apart. The film is inspired by true events.

Hex

Hex

The idealistic Lærke is put to the test when she drags her boyfriend and child to her parents' St. Hans Eve party, because what should have been a cosy family moment soon turns into a psychological power struggle between two generations. When Lærke ends up being brought down by her own principles, she throws herself into a last childish attempt to take back control.

The Land of Short Sentences

The Land of Short Sentences

Marie's life gets turned upside down when the love of her life, Rasmus, takes on a teaching job at a local school in West Jutland, Denmark. Rather unwillingly, Marie joins Rasmus in moving their roots from Copenhagen to the windy town, Velling. While Rasmus is an immediate match to the local ways, it becomes a culture chock for Marie, who time and time again proves herself a misfit to the locals. However, as she gradually learns to listen more and talk less, she realizes that she might need Velling as much as Velling needs her – and her advice column for the local newspaper.