Jesper Christensen

Actor

Awards & Festivals - Selection

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

Film / TV

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

2016 | Inbetween Worlds | Independent Artists Filmproduktion | ZDF | TV movie | Director: Feo Aladag | Nomination: Grimme Award

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

2015 | Me & Kaminski | X-Filme | X-Filme | feature film | Director: Wolfgang Becker | lead

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

2013 | Sisters | Dreamtool Entertainment | feature film | Director: Anne Wild | ensemble lead

2013 | The Last Sentence | Film i Väst | feature film | Director: Jan Troell | lead, Chicago Film Festival

2011 | The Debt | Miramax | feature film | Director: John Madden

2011 | Melancholia | Zentropa | feature film | Director: Lars von Trier

2011 | Verschollen am Kap | TV60 Film | ZDF | TV movie | Director: Andreas Senn | 2 parts

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 | Original | feature film | Director: Brondsted & Tublin

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 | One Shot | feature film | Director: Linda Vendel

2008 | The Young Victoria | feature film | Director: Jean-Marc Vallee

2008 | Flame & Citron | feature film | Director: Ole Christian Madsen

2008 | Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment | feature film | Director: Jan Troell | nom. Golden Globe Award

2007 | Forestillinger | TV series | Director: Per Fly

2006 | James Bond 007 - "Casino Royale" (Bond 21) | feature film | Director: Martin Campbell

2006 | Shaking Dreamland | feature film | Director: Martina Nagel

2005 | Manslaughter | feature film | Director: Per Fly

2005 | The Interpreter | feature film | Director: Sydney Pollack

2005 | Revelations | TV series | Director: Lili Zanuck, among others

2003 | Make Believe | feature film | Director: Kjiell Grede

2003 | Baby | feature film | Director: Linda Wendel

2003 | Arven | feature film | Director: Per Fly

2002 | Okay | feature film | Director: Jesper W. Nielsen

2002 | Minor Mishaps | feature film | Director: Annette K. Olesen

2001 | Italian for Beginners | feature film | Director: Lone Scherfig

2001 | Uprising | feature film | Director: Jon Avnet

2000 | The Bench | feature film | Director: Per Fly

1999 | In China They Eat Dogs | feature film | Director: Lasse Spang Olsen

1997 | Barbara | feature film | Director: Nils Malmros

1996 | The White Lioness | feature film | Director: Per Berglund

1996 | Hamsun | feature film | Director: Jan Troell

1995 | White Lies | feature film | Director: Mats Aréhn

1992 | Sofie | feature film | Director: Liv Ullmann

1990 | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | feature film | Director: Kjell Grede

1988 | Skyggen af Emma | feature film | Director: Soren Kragh Jacobsen

1987 | Hip hip hurrah! | feature film | Director: Kjell Grede

1980 | It's a World Full of Children | feature film | Director: Aase Schmidt

1978 | Winterborn | feature film | Director: Astrid H. Jensen

1977 | Havoc | feature film | Director: Ole Roos

1976 | Ein Kapitel für sich | mini series | Director: Eberhard Fechner

1976 | Tadelloesser & Wolff | mini series | Director: Eberhard Fechner

Theatre

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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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