Lykke: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The series is about the two 25-year-old twins, happiness and Thomas, who have lost both their parents. One tries to find happiness through the career, the other through love. Thomas has for several years been treated for depression, while Happiness, however, has focused on his career. The start of the series, she seeks job in the communications department at the pharmaceutical giant SanaFortis, where she focuses on a meteoric career. In addition, we meet in the course of the series a wide range of other personalities who undergo astonishing changes when their perception of happiness in turn challenged. Happiness is a comedy about ambition and repressed instincts, the unclear border between dream and reality and the dream of happiness and well-ordered life, where everything can be planned - except for the case.

Series details

• Title: Lykke
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Danish
• Premiere date: 2011-01-02
• Final broadcast date listed: 2012-03-11
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: DR1
• Network country: Denmark
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7319
• IMDb ID: tt1532448
• TVDB ID: 217331

Cast and credited roles

• Mille Lehfeldt — Lykke
• Ann Eleonora Jørgensen — Charlotte
• David Dencik — Anders Assing
• Julie Christiansen — Ada
• Lars Brygmann — Flemming
• Laus Høybye — Thomas
• Louise Mieritz — Eva
• Mathilde Norholt — Maja
• Rasmus Botoft — Claus
• Søren Pilmark — Johannes Dam
• Timm Vladimir — Niels
• Casper Crump — Sigurd

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-01-02; final listed air date 2011-03-06.
• Season 2: premiered 2012-01-22; final listed air date 2012-03-11.

Source and licence

Adapted from Lykke on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.