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Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. In May 2012, he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in the film The Hunt.
Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher. He has starred in popular Danish movies such as Flickering Lights (Danish: Blinkende lygter), The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere), Adam’s Apples (Danish: Adams æbler), Valhalla Rising, his film debut Pusher, and Pusher II. Mikkelsen’s longest running role was as a policeman in the Danish television series Unit One (Danish: Rejseholdet). He also starred as Tristan in the Jerry Bruckheimer production of King Arthur, as well as playing the villain Le Chiffre in the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. Also in 2006 he took the lead role in the Oscar nominated After the Wedding (Danish: Efter brylluppet).
In 2008, when the Quantum of Solace video game was released, Mikkelsen reprised Le Chiffre, voicing the character throughout. Also in 2008, Mikkelsen, along with fellow James Bond villain Richard Kiel, was invited by Swiss watchmaker Swatch to Bregenz, Austria to present the Swatch 007 Villain Collection.
In 2010, he starred in the remake of Clash of the Titans, as Draco, the leader of the king’s guard alongside Sam Worthington.
In 2012, he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in the film The Hunt.
He is set to star in the new 2012 TV series Hannibal as Dr. Hannibal Lecter opposite Hugh Dancy as Special Agent Will Graham.
In 2013, upcoming projects he is involved in include The Stolen [IMDb / Official Site] and The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman [IMDb] with Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood.
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor)
By: Anders Frejdh
Published:
2007-09-01
I first met Mads Mikkelsen in London in 2007. A lovely man in real life and very much the opposite to Le Chiffre, the role he played in Casino Royale (2006).
The talented Copenhagen-born actor is the top male star in his native Denmark and is acclaimed throughout Scandinavia. As a child he trained as a gymnast and then became a professional dancer before studying drama at the Arhus Theatre School. In Denmark, he became famous overnight, as the star of the police series Unit 1, which won an International Emmy as Best Drama Series.
Among his many and varied film roles, he is best know for his starring role in Susanne Bier’sOpen Heartsfor which he won a Zulu Award and was nominated for Best Actor for the Danish Academy’s Robert Award and the Danish Film Critics’ Bodil Award in 2003. Other leading roles include I Am Dinaopposite Gerard Depardieu, Shake it All Aboutdirected by Hella Joof, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himselfdirected by Lone Scherfigand two comedies, Flickering Lightsand The Green Butchers, both of which were directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. The latter garnered Mikkelsen a nomination for Robert and Bodil Awards as Best Actor in 2005.
Mikkelsen made his Hollywood debut opposite Clive Owenand Keira Knightleyin King Arthurdirected by Antoine Fuqua. As Tristan, he played the understated hawk-loving Knight of the Round Table.
In Adams Apples, again directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, Mikkelsen starred as a delusional priest, a performance which has won him a Best Actor Zulu Award. The film was the Danish selection as Best Foreign Film in the 2006 Academy Awards® and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Mikkelsen recently starred in Susann Bier’s new film After the Weddingand will next be seen in the Swedish thriller Exitdirected by Peter Lindmark.
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Mads Mikkelsen
Danish actor (born 1965)
Not to be confused with Michael Madsen.
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 Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2008), Johann Friedrich Struensee in A Royal Affair (2012), his Cannes Film FestivalBest Actor Award-winning performance as Lucas in the Danish film The Hunt (2012), Kaecilius in Marvel's Doctor Strange (2016), Galen Erso in Lucasfilm's Rogue One (2016), his BAFTA-nominated role as Martin in Another Round (2020),Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Dr Jürgen Voller in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), and Captain Ludwig Kahlen in The Promised Land (2023). Outside of film, he is known for his roles as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series Hannibal (2013–2015) and Cliff Unger in Hideo Kojima's video game Death Stranding (2019).
A. O. Scott of The New York Times remarked that in the Hollywood scene, Mikkelsen has "become a reliable character actor with an intriguing mug" but stated that on the domestic front "he is something else: a star, an axiom, a face of the resurgent Danish cinema".
Early life
Mikkelsen was born on 22 November 1965 in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of mother Bente (Christiansen) Mikkelsen and fathe "You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures. It's the simplest thing... to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure." Datastream Without his clients' knowledge Le Chiffre gambles with their funds, shorting on stocks for a major new airline, Skyfleet Enterprises. The dark brooding character is armed with platinum asthma inhaler and an evil eye for cards. He is a cold and friendless man who once commanded a powerful entourage but has lost credibility in recent years of his life and is struggling to keep on top of his game. Scheme When Le Chiffre is narrowly beaten by 007 at the table, this game becomes much more lethal and James Bond and this evil arch-villain commence a vicious game of cat and mouse - involving kidnapping and a brutal torture. I've Been Expecting You HeadquartersMI6
Actor: Mads Mikkelsen
Character: Le Chiffre
Movie: Casino Royale
Date of Birth: 22nd November 1965
Height: 5’ 11.5" (1.82m)
Appearance: Medium height and build with slick black hair, light skin and cool blue.
Distinguishing Feature: Deranged tear ducts in the left eye causing him to weep blood.
Status: Terminated
Organisations & Alliances: Quantum, Dimitrios, Valenka, Mollaka, Carlos, Mr. White, Kratt.
When his gambles go sour, Le Chiffre has one last shot at recouping his clients funds. He stages a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro in order to win back the lost funds. MI6 is keeping tabs on the villain and sends James Bond, the service's best poker player to beat Le Chiffre at his own game. His only hope to save face (and his life) with the mysterious organisation that has backed him to date is to face James Bond at the poker table.
Bond and Le Chiffre come face to face over the poker table, where the villain expresses faux curiosity over 007's cover identity by exclaiming "Mr. Beech... or is that Bond? I am a little confused."
Le Chiffre operates out of a luxury yacht that allows him to meet anywhere fr