Rie Rasmussen, born in Denmark in 1976, is the daughter of an artist mother and an economist father. Raised in an extended family with nine siblings in the Danish countryside, she moved to New York at the age of 15 to pursue her passion for painting. Since then, she has traveled extensively and has lived in various locations, including Huntington Beach, California, where she briefly attended film school as a director in 1998.
While residing in Paris, Rasmussen was cast in Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale" and subsequently became the exclusive worldwide face of Gucci, chosen by director Tom Ford. At the age of 24, she wrote, directed, and acted in her first short film, "Thinning the Herd," which was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Rasmussen's second short film, "Il Vestito," was showcased at the Taormina film festival, which she also wrote and appeared in. Shot on location in Palermo, Sicily, as a black and white homage to Italian Neo-realism, "Il Vestito" marked a significant milestone in Rasmussen's career.
In 2005, she was cast as the lead in Luc Besson's "Angel-A," a French-speaking black and white fairy tale set in Paris. Rasmussen's first feature film, "Human Zoo," which she wrote, directed, and produced, was officially selected at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival and served as the opening night presentation in the Panorama program.
