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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
🎂 Jul 27, 1970 (55)
Rudkobing, Denmark Top 1000
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).
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Kingdom of Heaven
2005
The Flash
2023
Oblivion
2013
Black Hawk Down
2001
Gods of Egypt
2016
Mama
2013
Shot Caller
2017
The Other Woman
2014
Enigma
2001
Wimbledon
2004
The Silencing
2020
Firewall
2006
Headhunters
2011
God Is a Bullet
2023
Bent
1997
Against the Ice
2022
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
2023
Exit Plan
2019
Domino
2019
A Taste of Hunger
2021
The Baker
2007
Blackthorn
2011
Nightwatch
1994
Klown Forever
2015
A Thousand Times Good Night
2013
At World's End
2009
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
2004
The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2007
Small Crimes
2017
Wildside
1998
Shadow of the Sword
2005
The Day We Died
2020
A Second Chance
2014
Stealing Rembrandt
2003
Angel of the Night
1998
Foreign Fields
2000
The Bouncer
2003
Triple Dare
2006
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
2002
The Good Cop
2004
Misery Harbour
1999
The Kautokeino Rebellion
2008
Himmerland
2008
3 Things
2017
Wonderful and Loved by All
2007
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
1970-07-27 · Rudkobing, Denmark
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 (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.