The Danish Girl
“Find the courage to be yourself.”
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Pretty Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Danish Girl performed
Budget
$15.0M
Worldwide Gross
$64.2M
Gross Profit
$49.2M
Return
4.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$9M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lili
Eddie Redmayne
Lili
Gerda
Alicia Vikander
Gerda
Hans
Matthias Schoenaerts
Hans
Henrik
Ben Whishaw
Henrik
Warnekros
Sebastian Koch
Warnekros
Dr. Hexler
Pip Torrens
Dr. Hexler
Dr. Buson
Nicholas Woodeson
Dr. Buson
Ulla
Amber Heard
Ulla
Elsa
Emerald Fennell
Elsa
Rasmussen
Adrian Schiller
Rasmussen
Niels
Henry Pettigrew
Niels
Ursula
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Ursula
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