Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1970-07-27 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Rudkobing, Denmark

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Biography

Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and Scandinavia, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S, his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down...

Acting

2001

Black Hawk Down

as MSG Gary Gordon

2001

Enigma

as Puck

2004

2003

1994

Nightwatch

as Martin

2005

2004

Wimbledon

as Dieter Prohl

1998

Wildside

as Ossy

1998

2003

The Bouncer

as Svend

2007

The Baker

as Bjorn

2009

Virtuality

as Commander Frank Pike

2006

Triple Dare

as Martin

2000

2011

Blackthorn

as Young James

2011

Headhunters

as Clas Greve

2009

At World's End

as Severin Geertsen

2013

Oblivion

as Sykes

2023

The Flash

as Pizza Guy

1999

Misery Harbour

as Espen Arnakke

2008

Himmerland

as Thomas

2013

Mama

as Lucas Desange

2016

2014

The Other Woman

as Mark King

2007

2014

A Second Chance

as Andreas

2017

Shot Caller

as Jacob 'Money' Harlon

2023

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

as Traveller Underwater (archived footage)

2008

1997

Bent

as Wolf

1999

2015

Klown Forever

as Nikolaj

2017

Small Crimes

as Joe Denton

2006

Firewall

as Liam

2017

3 Things

as Mikael

2025

My Fathers' Daughter

as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

2019

Domino

as Christian Toft

2019

Exit Plan

as Max Isaksen

1993

Slaget på tasken

as Christian

2005

Kingdom of Heaven

as Village Sheriff

2020

The Silencing

as Rayburn Swanson

2020

2017

Chicken/Egg

as Kenneth

2021

2023

God Is a Bullet

as Bob Hightower

2022

Against the Ice

as Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen

Production

2022

Against the Ice

as Producer

2022

Against the Ice

as Screenplay

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Virtue

as Producer

2023

The Flash

as Thanks

1998

Wildside

as Writer

2021

Flee

as Executive Producer

2017

3 Things

as Executive Producer

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