Mads Mikkelsen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-11-22 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mads Mikkelsen

Biography

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (Danish: [ˈmæsˈme̝kl̩sn̩]; born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. He rose to fame in Denmark as an actor for his roles such as Tonny in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy (1996, 2004), Detective Sergeant Allan Fischer in the television series Rejseholdet (2000–2004), Niels in Open Hearts (2002), Svend in The Green Butchers (2003), Ivan in Adam's Apples (2005), and Jacob Petersen in After the Wedding (2006). Mikkelsen achieved worldwide recognition for playing the main antagonist, Le Chiffre, in the twenty-first James Bond film, Casino Royale (2006). His other film roles include Igor Stravinsky in Coco C...

Acting

2002

Open Hearts

as Niels

2005

1996

Pusher

as Tonny

2006

After the Wedding

as Jacob Pederson

2003

2004

Pusher II

as Tonny

1998

Wildside

as Jimmy

2008

2004

King Arthur

as Tristan

2003

2006

Exit

as Thomas Skepphult

2013

2006

Casino Royale

as Le Chiffre

2002

I Am Dina

as Niels

2001

2006

Prague

as Christoffer

2009

Valhalla Rising

as One-Eye

2009

1999

Bleeder

as Lenny

2009

The Door

as David Andernach

2001

Mona's World

as Casper

2012

A Royal Affair

as Johann Friedrich Struensee

2012

The Hunt

as Lucas

2012

Move On

as Sam Larkin

2003

Now

as Jakob (young)

2006

Gambler

as Himself

-

The Black Kaiser

as The Black Kaiser

2023

The Promised Land

as Ludvig Kahlen

2003

2012

NWR

as Self

2014

The Salvation

as Jon Jensen

2021

Being James Bond

as Self (archive footage)

1996

Café Hector

as Anders

2015

2024

Mufasa: The Lion King

as Kiros (voice)

2025

The Last Viking

as Manfred

1998

2018

Arctic

as H. Overgård

2021

Chaos Walking

as Mayor David Prentiss

2019

Polar

as Duncan Vizla

2018

At Eternity's Gate

as The Priest

1997

2020

Another Round

as Martin

2020

1999

Tom Merritt

as Elmer Karr

2016

Doctor Strange

as Kaecilius

2011

2016

The Phantom

as Le Fantôme

2006

2021

-

Last Meals

as Walter Karat

Production

-

The Black Kaiser

as Executive Producer

2019

Polar

as Executive Producer

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