Susanne Bier is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy-winning writer and director whose work pairs global backdrops with an intimate focus on family and emotion, making her Denmark's leading female filmmaker and a global powerhouse.

Her 1999 comedy The One and Only was Denmark's most-watched domestic film in twenty years. Open Hearts (2002) and Brothers (2004) followed, winning awards at the Robert Festival, Toronto, and Sundance. After the Wedding (2006) earned an Oscar nomination and was later remade in English, while Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) marked her English-language debut. In 2010, In a Better World won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Bier later directed Love Is All You Need (2013) and A Second Chance (2014), and won an Emmy for AMC's The Night Manager (2016). She went on to direct Netflix's Bird Box (2018), the most-watched film in Netflix history, HBO's The Undoing (2020), and Showtime's The First Lady (2022), starring Viola Davis.