Katrine Fønsmark

Katrine Fønsmark works as a television journalist in Copenhagen, sharp and ambitious in a newsroom hungry for the story behind the story. She is glamorous, self-possessed, and entangled with the political world she covers, including a complicated history with the campaign she is meant to report on objectively. She wants the scoop, and she wants to matter.

Borgen refuses to let Katrine be either ice-queen or ingenue, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen plays her with a watchful intelligence that never quite settles into cynicism. The show is as interested in newsroom compromise as in cabinet rooms, and Katrine is where that pressure shows first — ambitious, exposed, never simply likable.