I consider myself an actor who is too shy to stand in front of an audience and who would rather hide behind a computer and make funny faces at the mirror. The upside is - I can be anybody! I was once asked in a Podcast interview how a 44 year old mom of two could be the person behind an alcoholised, obnoxious uncle in the film “Checkered Ninja”. My answer was: “Because it’s my job!”

I have mostly been working in the Danish feature film industry where the budgets are lower and the weekly frame count is considerably higher than your average Hollywood animation feature but that has taught me to be fast, structured, keeping strict deadlines and to stick to my ideas and see them through.  My ambition is to be part of a bigger production where I can show my potential and take my animations to newer heights not restricted by a tight deadline and lacking rigs.   

My way into animation was through drawing and that could have taken me in any which direction in the animation pipeline but I discovered that it was the the process of coming up with ideas, acting them out, feeling the emotions of the character and seeing the audience react that got me hooked to character animation. Knowing that I got the director’s vision just right gives me a kick! Figuring out how that eyebrow is raised, feeling how those shoulders tighten, exploring the different ways a hand can pick up a cup…. I’m happy as a clam at high tide.

I have wanted to be an animator since I was 12 yeas old and I did my first cut-out animations with an 8mm camera. I was repeatedly told that that wasn’t an option in Denmark and that I should find a “real” career. But I discovered The Animation Workshop which back in 2001 was a very expensive 1 year course in animation. I scrimped and saved and worked long shifts in a kitchen for a year while I developed my portfolio for the admissions test. I got in! And while I went to the course The Animation Workshop was approved as a real education. I graduated from their first 3 ½ year Bachelor Degree in Character Animation in 2007.

When I’m not behind the computer you will find me in my garden working on my food forest or deeply engrossed in a fantasy book while listening to movie soundtracks. I live in Denmark outside of Copenhagen with my husband, two daughters and a cat.