Languages: Danish (mother tongue), English, German (fluent), French (basic knowledge)
Residence: Copenhagen
Place of birth: Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Height: 1.80m (5' 10.9“)
Chicago Film Festival: Best Actor für BEFORE THE FROST
European Film Award: 2x nominated
Bodil Award: 5x won, 3x nominated
Robert Festival: 4x won, 3x nominated
Guldbagge Awards 2009: won 'Best Supporting Actor' for EVERLASTING MOMENTS
Lübeck Nordic Film Days 2000: 'Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for his acting perfomance (special award)' for THE BENCH
2022 | Munch | Nordisk Film | feature film | Director: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
2020 | Lille sommerfugl | Snowglobe Films | feature film | Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | ensemble lead
2020 | Into the Darkness | Space Rocket Nation | Odin's Eye Entertainment | feature film | Director: Anders Refn | lead
2017 | AST - A Sexual Thriller | Kristún Entertainment | feature film | Director: Joel Colburn
2017 | Before the Frost | Nordisk Film | feature film | Director: Michael Noer | lead
2016 | Ditte & Louise | DR Fiction | DR | TV series | Director: Niclas Bendixen | 3 episodes
2015 | James Bond 007 - "Spectre" (Bond) | Eon Productions | Columbia | feature film | Director: Sam Mendes
2016 | The King's Choice | Film Väst | Beta Cinema | feature film | Director: Erik Poppe | lead, Berlin International Film Festival: Panorama Special
2013-2014 | The Legacy (OT: Arvingerne) | DR | DR | TV series | Director: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, among others | series regular
2013 | Nymphomaniac | Zentropa Entertainments | feature film | Director: Lars von Trier
2011 | The Debt | Miramax | feature film | Director: John Madden
2011 | Melancholia | Zentropa | feature film | Director: Lars von Trier
2010 | A Family | Zentropa Film | feature film | Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen | ensemble lead, Berlin International Film Festival: won FIPRESCI Prize, nom. Golden Berlin Bear
2009 | Storm | feature film | Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Berlin International Film Festival: 3x won, nom. Golden Berlin Bear, German Film Awards: 3x won, 2x nom.; German Film Critics Association Awards: 1x won, 3x nom.
2008 | Quantum of Solace (Bond 22) | feature film | Director: Marc Forster
2008 | Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment | feature film | Director: Jan Troell | nom. Golden Globe Award
2006 | James Bond 007 - "Casino Royale" (Bond 21) | feature film | Director: Martin Campbell
2005 | The Interpreter | feature film | Director: Sydney Pollack
Born 1948 in Copenhagen. Lived there ever since. Did 25 years of theatre, like Alceste in the Misanthrope, Richard in Richard lll (solo), Faust in Faust. Astrov in Vanja, a lot of worried men,- stopped doing it in 1998. Since then only worried men on film. (I love men, we’re so stupid.) Worked on more than 100 films by Per Fly, Sam Mendes, Lars von Trier, Marc Forster, John Madden, Lone Scherfig, Sydney Pollack, Jan Troell, and others. Since 2000 lives with Tove Bornhoeft, a wonderful Danish theatre manager/director/actress. Two grown up daughters. No animals now. Dogs, pigs, chickens, cats, birds, horses, fish, rabbits, – all gone now.
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