Søren Pilmark is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 actor.

With Natasja Crone Back

Natasja Crone Back

Natasja Crone Back is a Danish journalist and TV-show presenter. She is well known from several big shows on Danish television....

, he is notable for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 12 May 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the first time in 36 years that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers' win the previous year in Stockholm...

 in a seemingly endless string of rhyming couplets.

His best known works internationally are the film Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights

Flickering Lights

Flickering Lights is a 2000 Danish action-comedy directed by Anders Thomas Jensen.-Plot:Four small-time gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they steal over 4,000,000 Danish kroner which they were supposed to bring him...

), directed by Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...

, and the mini-series Riget

The Kingdom (TV miniseries)

The Kingdom is an eight-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994, and co-directed by Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred. It has been edited together into a five-hour movie for distribution in the United Kingdom and United States...

, directed by Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

. He has also written and starred in comedy productions; firstly in the "Pallesen-Pilmark Show" in 1984, and then in the "Ørkenens sønner" series. He has also dubbed Rocky in Chicken Run

Chicken Run

Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films...

and O'Malley in The Aristocats

The Aristocats

The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970 and stars Eva Gabor and Phil Harris, with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar the butler, the villain of the story...

in Danish.
He was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Film" in 2007 for the film "Helmer og søn".

Currently he is starring as Bahnsen in commercials for DSB together with Harry, a purple puppet with red hair.

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