Peter Aalbæk Jensen

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Peter Aalbæk Jensen, born 8 April 1956 in Osted, is a Danish film producer. In 1992 he started Zentropa with director Lars von Trier and later built the large Filmbyen studio area. His father was writer Erik Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa helped launch the Dogme95 movement and produced films such as Dogville (2003) with Nicole Kidman, Dancer in the Dark (2000) with Björk, The Five Obstructions, and the Oscar-nominated After the Wedding (2006). He has executive-produced more than 70 feature films and many TV productions, and he started many subsidiary companies, being seen as the most important Danish film producer since the 1990s. In autumn 2008 he was a judge on Denmark’s Got Talent. In 2017 nine women accused him of sexual harassment and workplace bullying.