Sandra Yi Sencindiver
Portrait by @stewartbywater. Alien image by FX/@patrickbrownphoto
Sandra Yi Sencindiver is an American-Danish-Korean actor, writer and director known for her work across international television, theatre and gaming. Born in Busan, South Korea, and raised between the U.S. and Denmark, she is fluent in English and Danish, and trained at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.
Her screen credits include standout roles such as Susanne in The Bridge and Yuji Li in Geek Girl. She has also appeared in acclaimed Nordic dramas including Bäckström, The Killing, The Protectors, Below The Surface and most recently Oxen.
Outside of her acting roles, Sandra has been heavily involved with the Danish theatre scene, in both acting and staging, and is an award-winning director.
She is well-known for her activism in making Danish film and television more diverse and inclusive, being one of the initiators of the campaign A Bigger Picture which was a call to action addressing the very homogenous white casting in major Danish television and film projects in 2023. A campaign which went viral when Lars von Trier infamously said to “f’*k off!” and has been covered in Deadline and Variety.
Additionally, she has recently written and directed the award-winning short Watch, about a woman who seeks out a childhood friend to confront and make amends the wrongs of their past and her second short film Seeking Hwa Sun was nominated for the Danish Academy Award Robert (2025).
As well as on screen and stage, Sencindiver has also lent her voice to the characters of Ljufvina and Yanli in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, respectively.
Sencindiver has also lent herself to numerous sci-fi and fantasy roles in her career, with characters such as Enjoiner Rue in Apple’s Foundation and Lady Amalisa in Amazon’s The Wheel of Time. She can soon be seen in FX/Hulu’s Alien: Earth in the major supporting role of Yutani.
