Lasse Spang Olsen

Lasse Spang Olsen is a Danish film director, stuntman and -coordinator, TV- and podcast-producer, actor and writer. Lasse has directed and produced films and TV since 1983, bringing tales to life with a brilliance of imagination mingled with flashes of marvelous explosions and various clever stunts unique to Lasse's personal touch on films and TV.

Lasse was born in Virum to writer and illustrator Ib Spang Olsen and artist and painter Nulle Ingeborg Øigaard. Lasse did his first work as a stuntman at 12 years old during the filming of a Danish children's show called "Bamse og Kylling". He was educated as a cinematographer at Nordisk Film and Danmarks Radio. Since then he has directed Danish classics such as "In China They Eat Dogs" and "Old Men in New Cars" and furthermore done stunts and FX on more than 500 films worldwide.

At the 9th Robert Awards in Denmark Lasse Spang Olsen won for 'best short featurette' for bringing his father's legacy to life in the film "Little Boy on Østerbro" through his father's drawings illustrating the now faded landscape of his childhood in the neighborhood of Østerbro in Copenhagen.