Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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“As an actor you have a character who's defined by his skills as a swordsman, and then you take away that one thing. as an actor you live for those moments. Physically, it was a nightmare at the beginning because I had to have my arm down my left leg and my stump up here, but now it's fine.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Oblivion (2013)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Gods Of Egypt (2016)

The Silencing (2020)

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor, producer and screenwriter, born on July 27th, 1970 in Rudkøbing, Denmark. He grew up in Tybjerg, a small village between Ringsted and Næstved in southern Zealand. Coster-Waldau graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993. His breakthrough performance in Denmark was his role in the film Nightwatch (1994). Since then he has appeared in numerous films in his native Scandinavia and Europe in general, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013).

Coster-Waldau made his stage debut as Laertes in Hamlet at the Betty Nansen Theater. His role in the film Nightwatch (1994) brought him fame in his native country as he then went on to play in Simon Staho's Wildside (1998), which he also cowrote, and starred in Danish films such as Misery Harbour (1999). He made his British debut alongside Clive Owen, Jude Law and the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in Bent (1997), based on the play of the same name, revolving around the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. In the U.S, Coster-Waldau’s debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played Detective John Amsterdam in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), as well as appearing as Frank Pike in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He became widely known for his role as Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, for which he received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018 and in 2019. Coster-Waldau most recently starred in the films Shot Caller (2017), Domino (2019), The Silencing (2020), and the Netflix film Against the Ice (2022).

Coster-Waldau is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to critical issues such as gender equality and climate change. In early 2018, he and several other Danish artists signed a manifesto demanding zero tolerance for sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the Danish film and stage arts industry. In June 2018, he kicked off The Lion's Share fund's launch, an action in which when an advertising campaign uses an image of an animal, the advertiser will donate 0.5% of the paid media spending of that campaign to the fund. In 2019 he travelled to Rwanda to report the progress of the country, and to Peruvian Amazonia on occasion of the Amazon rainforest wildfires to offer insights into the effects of climate change.