Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale is a 2003 semi-biographical television miniseries that fictionalizes the young life of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was directed by Philip Saville and starred Kieran Bew as the title character.^[1] Four Hans Christian Andersen fairytales are included as short interludes of the story, and intertwined into the events of the young author's life.^[2]

Cast

• Kieran Bew as Hans Christian Andersen^[3]
• Emily Hamilton as Jette
• Flora Montgomery as Jenny Lind
• Simon Callow as Charles Dickens
• Edward Atterton as Prince Christian of Denmark
• Mathieu Carrière as Otto Goldschmidt
• Joe Prospero as Francis Dickens
• Charlie Hicks as Edward Dickens
• James Fox as Jonas Collin

Fairytales featured

• The Little Match Girl
• Thumbelina
• The Princess and the Pea
• The Nightingale
• The Tinderbox
• The Little Mermaid
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier
• The Ugly Duckling
• The Snow Queen