The British star portrays Einar Wegener, an artist who became one of the first-known recipients of a sex reassignment operation in 1931, taking the name Lili Elbe. Throughout the 1920s ...

Redmayne plays artist Einar Wegener, who, with the help of his loving wife Gerda - played by Alicia Vikander- prepares to undergo one of the first sex-change operations. The film, which has been ...

Her story is told in "The Danish Girl," starring Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne. Einar Wegener's transformation into Lili begins as a lark, when her artist wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) asks her to ...

The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born Einar Wegener and better known as Lili Elbe, and her spouse, the Art Deco portrait artist Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), born Gerda Gottlieb.

The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, who was born Einar Wegener and achieved success as a painter under that name before becoming one of the first people to receive gender reassignment surgery ...