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Liv Hansen
Danish actress and illustrator
Studio Notes
Reflections on acting and illustration - from a Danish actress working between disciplines, languages, and moments of stillness.


Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles
I’ve worked in London, trained in Los Angeles, and taped scenes from a desk in Copenhagen. The work has shown up in chunks— sometimes...

Liv Hansen
Jul 8


How to Become a Voice Actor (Without Sounding Like Everyone Else)
There’s a lot of advice out there on how to become a voice actor — some of it great, some of it mostly about microphones. Lists of...

Liv Hansen
Jul 7


Voiceover as Character Work: A Different Kind of Acting
How voice work stretches the actor’s instinct. Somewhere along the way, I stopped seeing voiceover as something separate from acting....

Liv Hansen
Jul 5


Notes from the Train: Character Work in Everyday Moments
How character work begins before the script. A quiet moment on a coastal train — where characters sometimes begin to form. I saw a man...

Liv Hansen
Jul 5


A Voice for Characters — Building Emotion Behind the Mic
I’ve voiced a mix of work over the years — mostly narration, commercial reads, and the occasional character in a short film. Some scripts...

Liv Hansen
Jul 4


How I Work Through a Scene as a Danish Actress
I’ve started thinking about characters on trains, in line at the post office, while folding towels. The process doesn’t always begin on...

Liv Hansen
Jul 4


Casting Conversations: Notes from a Danish Actress with an American Voice
I’ve had casting conversations where someone pauses and says, “You’re Danish?” Sometimes there’s a look at the CV. Sometimes just a...

Liv Hansen
Jul 4


On Set, Between Scenes: Notes from a Working Actress
I’ve been on a lot of sets — large, small, some held together by gaffer tape and takeaway coffee. The glamour isn’t always real, but the...

Liv Hansen
Jul 2


Day-to-Day Voiceover Work in Copenhagen
There’s something about small spaces. Not claustrophobic — just focused. The voiceover studios I work with here in Copenhagen are...

Liv Hansen
Jul 1


Working as a Danish Voiceover Artist in Copenhagen: A Quiet Craft
There’s a particular kind of silence that lives in a recording booth. Not the absence of sound - more a stillness that hums just beneath...

Liv Hansen
Jun 26


Subtle Tools for Self-Tapes (and Scenes that Matter)
Finding a Frame Somewhere between taped-up curtains, soft daylight, and a stack of books balanced behind a tripod, I’ve learned to build...

Liv Hansen
Jun 25


The Characters You Walk Past
There’s something about the characters we’re not meant to notice. Not the lead. Not even the named supporting role. The one standing...

Liv Hansen
Jun 25


Dansk skuespiller i Hollywood: Noter fra en rejse
At rejse har altid være en måde for mig at mærke livet på — at være til stede i nuet, opdage det ukendte og finde nye sider af mig selv....

Liv Hansen
Jun 24


Acting in Canada: Tips for International Actors from a Danish Actress
As a Danish actress who lived and worked in Canada for a time, I had the opportunity to experience a cting in Canada and Vancouver’s...

Liv Hansen
Jun 23


Between takes
Between takes. Staying with the character. The moments between takes are often what I remember most. When everything’s still for a...

Liv Hansen
Jun 21


Acting in English: How I Found My Voice as a Danish Actress
When I first moved abroad at sixteen, I didn’t think much about my accent. I was focused on fitting in at school, learning to navigate a...

Liv Hansen
Jun 21


Studio Note: What Happens Off-Camera
I had a short script in my bag I wasn’t really thinking about — one I’d stuffed in on the way out the door that morning. It was a day I...

Liv Hansen
Jun 13


Search History 👽
If you’ve searched my name, this page is probably why you’re here. I’m a Danish actress and illustrator based in Copenhagen. I work...

Liv Hansen
Jun 8


The Line That Lives in the Red Light
There’s this moment in voiceover work that never quite stops feeling strange. As a Danish voiceover artist based in Copenhagen, I’ve...

Liv Hansen
Jun 8


What Do They Want with Earth?
(Studio Notes — Vancouver) One of my earliest roles in Vancouver was in a science fiction short called Close Contact , directed by Ron...

Liv Hansen
Jun 8
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