“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.”
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. His breakthrough role was in Denmark with the film Nightwatch in 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.
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Born 27 July 1970 · Q445772
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2026· 3 entries
“t his biological father and that he was the result of his mom”
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Public attention spiked: 8,630 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 2,493, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Details His Attempts To Apply ‘Game Of Thrones’ Wisdom To Bloomberg’s ‘Optimist’s Guide To The Planet’; Watch Exclusive Clip
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Hosted the documentary series An Optimist's Guide to the Planet, profiling innovative new solutions to climate change
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: 'Game of Thrones' star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau says it's still 'too soon' for him to watch 'House of the Dragon'
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2022· 2 entries
People: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Says Watching 'House of the Dragon' Will Be 'Surreal ... It Seems Very Familiar'
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Yahoo: A TASTE OF HUNGER Has Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Sizzling in the Kitchen
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2020· 3 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Hosts Reddit AmA About Charity, ‘Game of Thrones’ Questions Go Unanswered
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In a production of Shakespeare's tragedy reuniting with Matt Shakman at the Geffen Playhouse
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When the team was finally promoted to the Premier League again after 16 years
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2019· 1 entry
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
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2018· 1 entry
Was among ten prominent characters from the show who was portrayed on a special edition series of stamps in Great Britain
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2017· 3 entries
Coster-Waldau partnered with Google, using Street View to document the impact of global warming in Greenland, in order to increase awareness and highlight climate change
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Coster-Waldau also appared in a music video at the Danish comedy show Zulu Comedy Galla where he as part of Co3, a music group consisting of himself, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich Thomsen og Josefine Frida Pettersen, performe
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Wrote a pledge calling for all fathers to support gender equality and women's empowerment, including those women who live in extreme poverty and are exposed to practises like child marriage
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2016· 2 entries
Coster-Waldau appeared in the action-fantasy film Gods of Egypt as Horus
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Announced a Game of Thrones campaign-contest in order to support the RED foundation which aims to raise awareness and fight AIDS
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2014· 2 entries
And as the lead character in 2025 internationally produced TV drama series Smilla's Sense of Snow
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Starred in Susanne Bier's Danish thriller A Second Chance as Andreas, a police officer forced to make a difficult choice
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2011· 1 entry
Starred alongside Sam Shepard in Mateo Gil's feature Blackthorn, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
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2009· 1 entry
Starred in Tomas Villum Jensen's action comedy film At World's End, and appeared in a commercial for the airline carrier Scandinavian Airlines's ad campaign "Så godt som hjemme" (eng: "As good as home")
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2007· 1 entry
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
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1997· 1 entry
And they live in Copenhagen with their two daughters Filippa and Safina, as well as two dogs
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1993· 1 entry
Studied at Danish National School of Performing Arts (1989–1993).
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-07-27.
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