Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier, born Lars Trier in Kongens Lyngby on 30 April 1956, is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late 1960s as a child actor on the Danish television series Secret Summer, his career has spanned more than five decades. He is considered a major figure of the European film industry, and he and his works have been variously described as ambitious and provocative as well as technically innovative, with films that offer confrontational examinations of existential, social, psychosexual and political issues.