From www.dr.dk (Denmarks Radio)
"Trine Michelsen dead of cancer.
20. January 2009, 08:24 danish time.
The fotomodel and actress Trine Michelsen has died of the cancer disease that has taunted her for seven years, writes 'Ekstra Bladet.
Trine Michelsen died saturday night on the palliative clinic 'Håndværkergården', which has specialized in easing pain at incurable patients. By her side she had her father, the former Bogart TV host Ole Michelsen.
- There is nothing that will cause her pain anymore. She is free of her sufferings. An event lasting for seven years. Now it is over and leaves a very big empty space that I now have to get used to, he says to 'Ekstra Bladet'.
Trine Michelsen, that would have celebrated her 43th birthday tomorrow, was hit by a special kind of bone cancer in her left shoulder that spread to the lungs and the rest of her body.
Nude model and Dogme actress.
In the 1980's Trine Michelsen was known a nude model and movie actress in the 'lighty dressed category'. It was also as this she was the draw in Lars von Triers dogme-movie 'Idioterne'.
Before her ilness she had an open riot with her father regarding failure in her childhood. They were reconciled early in the course of her ilness.
Trine Michelsen will be removed to the mortuary from Frederiksberg Church and later burried beneath her mother on Gentofte Church yard."