Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Birthday: 1970-07-27
Place of Birth: Rudkobing, Denmark
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 (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.
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Black Hawk Down
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
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Enigma
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to en...
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the wa...
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Stealing Rembrandt
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. ...
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Virtue
1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leavin...
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Nightwatch
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the ...
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Shadow of the Sword
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on ri...
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Wimbledon
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high a...
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Wildside
Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. B...
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Wonderful and Loved by All
Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relation...
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The Bouncer
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marr...
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Angel of the Night
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfri...
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The Baker
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first ...
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Virtuality
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-yea...
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Triple Dare
Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as ju...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Lou...
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Foreign Fields
Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witness...
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Blackthorn
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, a...
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that ...
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Headhunters
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenar...
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At World's End
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get...
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Oblivion
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation t...
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The Flash
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in ...
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Misery Harbour
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante...
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Himmerland
An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death....
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Mama
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little...
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The Other Woman
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And whe...
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Filthy Gorgeous
This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Ro...
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A Thousand Times Good Night
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top...
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A Second Chance
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down ...
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost ...
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4...
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Shot Caller
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime w...
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time tha...
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village....
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Bent
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...
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Antenneforeningen
One evening, the cable TV connection disappears in an apartment building. The residents are told tha...
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Small Crimes
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home look...
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Firewall
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's t...
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3 Things
Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police....
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My Fathers' Daughter
Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a...
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Domino
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himsel...
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Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in t...
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Exit Plan
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats p...
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Slaget på tasken
A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employee...
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Kingdom of Heaven
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series ...
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The Silencing
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff s...
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The Day We Died
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015...
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A Taste of Hunger
Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet resta...
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God Is a Bullet
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated...
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Against the Ice
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a wealthy couple — the Parrishes — as her next victims. She infiltrates the pai...
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The Good Cop
A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a...
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Klown Forever
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a sol...
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