Gråbøl has lived in Copenhagen all her life. Both her parents, father Kaj Fladhede Gråbøl and mother Mette Koustrup, were architects. She has an older brother, Niels Gråbøl, who is a director and the ex-husband of … See more

In the early years of her career she studied theology and worked in a bookstore. Responding to a newspaper advertisement at the age of 17, she was given the role of an artist's nude model in Oviri, a 1986 film about … See more

Gråbøl divorced her husband, the film director Jacob Thuesen, in 2006. They have two children: a son, Bror, and a daughter, Gudrun.
In 2012 she was diagnosed with cancer, had surger… See more