Sofie Gråbøl (Danish pronunciation: ; born 30 July 1968) is a Danish actress. She has starred in a number of films, with her breakthrough role in the 1986 Danish film Early Spring, directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen, playing the lead role in the film version of Tove Ditlevsen's novel Barndommens gade when she was 17 years old. On television she has starred in Taxa and Nikolaj og Julie.
Gråbøl has become known in Denmark for playing emotional roles, but she achieved international fame as a detective—the cool and distant lead character Inspector Sarah Lund in all three series of The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen) played on BBC4 with great success, winning a BAFTA award, and bringing Gråbøl celebrity status in the UK.
Gråbøl resides in Copenhagen where she has lived all her life. Both her parents, father Kaj Fladhede Gråbøl and mother Mette Koustrup were architects. She has an older brother Niels Gråbøl who is a director. Gråbøl's father left her mother when her mother was pregnant with Gråbøl and she was brought up by her mother. Her mother remarried a Maoist architect and for a time they lived in a commune. Gråbøl divorced her husband the film director Jacob Thuesen in 2006 and has two children by him, a son Bror who was 10 and a daughter Gudrun who was 13 years old in July 2014. In 2012 she was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery and chemotherapy and is now in remission.