Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

At 53 years old, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has this physical status:

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, a Danish actor, producer, and screenwriter, was born on July 27, 1970.

In 1993, he graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen.

Coster-Waldau's breakthrough in Denmark came as a result of his role in the film Nightwatch (1994).

Since then, he has appeared in several films in his homeland Scandinavia and Europe in general, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). Gary Gordon, a Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon, appeared in Black Hawk Down (2001), his first film role in the United States.

He appeared in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), as well as playing as Frank Pike in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, a pilot.

He became 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 2019.

He is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, who has drawn global attention to pressing topics such as gender equality and climate change.

Early life

Coster-Waldau was born in Rudkbing, Denmark, as the son of Hanne Sborg Coster, a librarian, and Jürgen Oscar Fritzer Waldau (died 1998). He has talked to his father's alcohol use in his father's life as well as his parents' divorce. He has two older siblings and was mainly raised by his mother. He grew up in Tybjerg, a tiny village between Ringsted and Nstved in southern New South Zealand. Coster-Waldau attended the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (Danish: Statens Teaterskole), 1989 to 1993.

Personal life

Although Coster-Waldau is not religious, he was baptized and confirmed as a Lutheran in the Danish National Church during his youth, as the vast majority of Danes, and viewed his confirmation as a significant moment in his life as he first recognized as an adult.

In 1997, he married Nukáka, a Greenlandic actor and singer, and they live in Copenhagen with their two children and two dogs. Filippa's daughter appeared in The Girl and the Dogs, a Danish short film that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. Safina's other daughter appeared in a Danish Christmas television show Theo og Den Magiske Talisman in December 2018 as the main character Simone. In December 2018, more than 700,000 viewers watched the TV series. Josef Motzfeldt, a member of the Parliament of Greenland and former leader of the Community of the People Party, is his father-in-law.

Although his father was a fan of Arsenal, a trip to an Elland Road stadium in the early 1990s persuaded him to support Leeds United, and he is a member of the Leeds United Supporters' Trust.

Coster-Waldau, a coster-wise tale for children and adults alike, narrates one of the fairytales for GivingTales. "I am from Denmark and Hans Christian Andersen is a part of our heritage, and I am very proud to be a part of this initiative." "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a touching love tale that we can all relate to."

Since 2003, Coster-Waldau has supported the Danish Red Cross. In 2016, he declared a Game of Thrones protest in order to help the RED charity, which aims to raise concerns and combat AIDS.

He has been serving as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador since September 2016, assisting the UN' Sustainable Development Goals in reducing hunger, combating injustice, and combat climate change. Coster-Waldau worked with Google in 2017 to document the effects of global warming in Greenland, in order to raise concerns and highlight climate change. He wrote a pledge in Kenya on the occasion of International Women's Day in 2017, including those women who live in extreme poverty and are exposed to practices such as child marriage. After kicking off the women's amateur World Cup in September 2017, he was one of the speakers in The Spotlight Initiative, a European Union-United Nations initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls. In October 2017, he returned to the Maldives to report global warming effects, resuming his position as a United Nations Development Program Goodwill Ambassador.

In early 2018, he and several other Danish artists signed a manifesto demanding zero tolerance for sexism, sexual assault, and sexual assault in Denmark's film and stage arts industry. He started The Lion's Share fund in June 2018, a move in which an advertisement campaign uses an animal photograph, the advertiser will contribute 0.55 percent of the campaign's paid media budget to the fund. He travelled to Rwanda and Peruvian Amazonia on the occasion of the Amazon rainforest wildfires in 2019 to report the country's progress, as well as the effects of climate change.

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Career

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. 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 starred in his first British film Bent (1997).

In 2001, he began his U.S. career in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down as Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. Coster-Waldau says "My first U.S. movie was Black Hawk Down and a friend helped me put myself on tape up on the attic over my apartment in Copenhagen. We shipped it out and I got lucky." Coster-Waldau used his success to take roles on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly his native Scandinavia.

He had a leading role in Michael Apted's Enigma and played a villain in the action film My Name is Modesty (based upon the Modesty Blaise comic strip). Scott brought Coster-Waldau back for the 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven. Richard Loncraine cast Coster-Waldau for Wimbledon and Firewall. In 2007, he played John Amsterdam, an immortal New York homicide detective who becomes mortal after finding true love, in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam. As a result of filming that series' pilot, Coster-Waldau obtained his Screen Actors Guild card. He later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV Guide, "Finally getting my SAG card was huge for me...I got so excited I went straight to the SAG online shop and bought four mugs with SAG logo. [I] still have those mugs!"

From 2011 to 2019, Coster-Waldau played Jaime Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire. He commented about the character "What's not to like about Jaime? As an actor I couldn't ask for a better role". For his role, he received several accolades, including Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Television Award, Saturn Award and People's Choice Award nominations.

In 2011, he starred alongside Sam Shepard in Mateo Gil's feature Blackthorn, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Later the same year he starred in Morten Tyldum's Headhunters. The film went on to be the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all-time and received very positive reviews including a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Coster-Waldau starred in the 2013 horror film Mama alongside Jessica Chastain, which then debuted at number one in the US box office and grossed over $140 million worldwide. He went on to play Sykes, a military weapons expert in the science fiction action thriller film Oblivion. That same year, he co-starred with Juliette Binoche in Erik Poppe's drama A Thousand Times Good Night. In 2014, he starred in Susanne Bier's Danish thriller A Second Chance as Andreas, a police officer forced to make a difficult choice. In 2016, Coster-Waldau appeared in the action-fantasy film Gods of Egypt as Horus.

In early 2017, he starred in E.L. Katz's dark comedy Small Crimes which premiered at South by Southwest film festival on 11 March 2017, to positive reviews. Coster-Waldau then appeared in the Danish film 3 Things, a thriller about a prime suspect of a bank robbery who negotiates the terms of his witness protection deal. He starred in Roman Waugh's prison film Shot Caller, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on 16 June 2017. Since January 2018 he has been the L'Oréal Paris global spokesperson for the company's Men Expert line of products.

In May 2017, it was announced that he starred in Brian De Palma's film Domino. The film was released on May 31, 2019. Later the same year he starred in Suicide Tourist by Jonas Alexander Arnby, which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival. That same year, Coster-Waldau launched a production company named Ill Kippers. He starred in The Silencing, a thriller directed by Robin Pront.

He filmed in secret the movie The Day We Died (Krudttønden) by Ole Christian Madsen. The film is based on events surrounding the 2015 Copenhagen shootings and was originally slated for release for late 2019. It was released in Europe on 3 May 2020. On 7 January 2021, Variety announced that Samuel Goldwyn Films has purchased U.S. distribution rights for the film.

He was to have played Macbeth in 2020, in a production of Shakespeare's tragedy reuniting with Matt Shakman at the Geffen Playhouse. On 15 April 2020, the Geffen Playhouse announced on its blog that its production of Macbeth, among others, had been postponed because of the Covid pandemic.

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