Ole Bornedal (born 26 May 1959) is a Danish film director, actor and producer. Bornedal was born in Nørresundby, Denmark. He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake (Nightwatch) in 1997, starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, he directed
I Am Dina. Other Danish films include
The Substitute (2007),
Just Another Love Story (2007), and
Deliver Us from Evil. He directed the English-language film
The Possession (2012) and was one of the producers of the horror film
Mimic. In 2014 he wrote and directed the epic historical drama
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