Lars Knutzon

{{Short description|Danish actor and director}}

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Lars Knutzon (born 1 October 1941) is a Danish actor and director, best known to international audiences for his role as Bent Sejrø in the Danish TV drama Borgen.[http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/01/borgen-its-spoiling-killing "Borgen: It's spoiling for a killing", New Statesman, 17 January 2013. Accessed 12 February 2013]

He is the son of actor, director and theatre director Per Knutzon and cabaret singer Lulu Ziegler and was trained in acting at the Odense Theatre in 1967 and was then employed by the theatre.

Lars Knutzon has worked for many years as director and actor in a number of Danish theatre and has also played a number of roles in TV, on radio and in film.{{cite web |url=http://www.danskefilm.dk/index2.html |title=Lars Knutzon| publisher=Danske Film | language=Danish | accessdate=2013-01-07}}

On the stage he has appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Don Quixote, Koks i Kulissen, Waiting for Godot, Woyzeck, Slutspil and Hamlet.

On television Knutzon has appeared in Krøniken, TAXA, A great family, Ludo, Kald mig-Liva, Bryggeren, all four seasons of Borgen.{{cite web |url=http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/lars-knutzon-aka-bent-sejr.html |title=Lars Knutzon aka Bent Sejrø| publisher=Mark Wadsworth | accessdate=2013-01-07}} and Christmas series Nissebanden, Alletiders Nisse and Jul in Kronborg.