Dorte Warnøe Høgh is a screenwriter and journalist, living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After 10 years of being a journalist, doing both radio and televison as a host, she decided to go to the Danish Filmschool and soon became a screenwriter. She did her first featurefilm The Inheritence with danish awardwinning director Per Fly and won several international prizes. In 2009 she was Oscar-nominated for The Pig, a shotfilm she wrote and also directed.
Today she is one of the most experienced danish women writers and showrunners on tv-series in Scandinavian. Both drama and crime has her interest.
Her latest work is When The Dust Settles, an original emsamble series, following eight characters 5 days before and 5 days after a terrorattack in Cph.
And the topcrime series based on a novel, The Chestnutman, viewed by millions from all over the world on Netflix.