Director Suzanne Bier’s latest is the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple that drops Thursday, with Nicole Kidman and Eve Hewson starring. Bier has a considerable track record of hit films and series. It all began in Denmark, where she matriculated from music video and commercials to early feature films that included Freud’s Leaving Home, Family Matters and Credo. That led to her breakout with The One and Only, a massive hit that won a passel of Danish Film Academy Awards. She followed with Open Hearts, Brothers and After the Wedding. Then came her chance to direct in Hollywood, which began with the Benicio Del Toro-Halle Berry drama Things We Lost in the Fire. She returned to Denmark to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film for In A Better World and the Danish hit Love Is All You Need.
She has scored big hits with the Emmy-winning The Night Manager with Tom Hiddelston and Hugh Laurie, and then the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box, which became the most watched film in Netflix history when it premiered in 2018. She followed with the HBO limited series The Undoing with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, and the Showtime limited series The First Lady which starred Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Watch here as she explains how an accidental encounter with the film classic The Wizard of Oz at age 8 rocked her young world and guided Bier to a fine career behind the camera.
