Trine Michelsen

Katrine Michelsen (21 January 1966 – 17 January 2009) was a Danish model and actress. Career Michelsen's first role as an actress was a small role in Cyklen, a project film at the Danish film academy. Shortly after school she got a role in a TV play by Franz Ernst and Astrid Saalbach. In the play, she is a strong and politically committed woman. Later she became a nude model in Ekstra Bladet and . This gave her roles in two horror films and two erotic films in Italy from 1986. In La Bonne by Salvatore Samperi, Trine Michelsen is a maid who arouses the inhabitants of a house erotically. The film was a success in Italy. The following year came Sergio Bergonzelli's which was even more erotic. The same year she played opposite Donald Pleasence in the splatter film Spettri directed by . Her last Italian film was the 1987 thriller Le foto di Gioia by Lamberto Bava. Her only American film came in 1988 in a small role in The Girl in a Swing, Gordon Hessler's adaptation of Richard Adams' novel by the same name. Lack of success made her focus on her modelling career, but she returned to acting in 1994 playing a prostitute in 's unemployment drama Eva. In 1998 she was the most nude collectivist in Lars von Trier's Dogme-film The Idiots.