Casper Kjær Jensen To Lead Nikolaj Arcel’s Hans Christian Andersen Biopic
Casper Kjær Jensen has been cast as Hans Christian Andersen in Nikolaj Arcel’s upcoming feature My Fairytale Life.
The announcement was made this afternoon during a presser at Cannes held by Zentropa.
My Fairytale Life is described as an “epic feature film” about the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Arcel has reteamed with co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen (The Last Viking), with whom he also wrote The Promised Land, on the project.
Casper Kjær Jensen graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2024. He previously featured in Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever and the HBO series Kamikaze. He also has several stage credits, including Jeppe On The Hill at the Royal Danish Theatre and Romeo and Juliet at Betty Nansen Teatret in Frederiksberg. Later this year, he will star in a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. My Fairytale Life will be Jensen’s feature film credit.
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