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Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener sits with arms crossed in an artist's studio beside a large portrait painting in a scene from The Danish Girl (2015). Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, with short curled auburn hair and a tan sleeveless dress, in a scene from The Danish Girl (2015).
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The Danish Girl

film by Hooper [2015]
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Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener sits with arms crossed in an artist's studio beside a large portrait painting in a scene from The Danish Girl (2015).
Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl Actress Alicia Vikander as artist Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015).

The film The Danish Girl (2015) is a dramatization of the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter who was assigned male at birth and experienced gender dysphoria. Born Einar Wegener, Elbe underwent the world's first documented sex reassignment surgeries in the early 1930s. The film, starring Eddie Redmayne, is based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name, which retells Elbe's story of transitioning to a transgender woman. Elbe's journey involved moving to Paris with her wife, Gerda Gottlieb, where she felt freer to express her gender identity. She passed away in 1931 due to complications from her surgeries.1

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