Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.5982 |
| Birthday | 1970-07-27 |
| Place of Birth | Rudkobing, Denmark |
| Also Known As | Lucas Desange, Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau, |
2001
Black Hawk Down
7.399/6577
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...
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Black Hawk Down
2001
Enigma
6.297/359
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
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Enigma
2004
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
4.42/50
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's...
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
2003
Stealing Rembrandt
6/37
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rem...
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Stealing Rembrandt
Virtue
0/0
1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to r...
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Virtue
1994
Nightwatch
6.898/334
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to fin...
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Nightwatch
2005
Shadow of the Sword
5.848/33
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them str...
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Shadow of the Sword
2004
Wimbledon
6.23/1101
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...
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Wimbledon
1998
Wildside
5.909/22
Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, wil...
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Wildside
2007
Wonderful and Loved by All
5.8/6
Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order t...
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Wonderful and Loved by All
2003
The Bouncer
5.4/5
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbea...
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The Bouncer
1998
Angel of the Night
4.333/21
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they...
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Angel of the Night
2007
The Baker
6.432/88
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of hi...
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The Baker
2009
Virtuality
5.151/93
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In o...
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Virtuality
2006
Triple Dare
4.9/20
Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they d...
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Triple Dare
2002
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
5.643/14
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
2000
Foreign Fields
6.333/12
Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villag...
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Foreign Fields
2011
Blackthorn
6.626/297
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...
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Blackthorn
2007
The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
4.7/13
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s,...
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2011
Headhunters
7.231/1414
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
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Headhunters
2009
At World's End
5.5/29
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recl...
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At World's End
2013
Oblivion
6.692/11809
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war wit...
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Oblivion
2023
The Flash
6.607/5239
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...
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The Flash
1999
Misery Harbour
4.857/7
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but...
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Misery Harbour
2008
Himmerland
5.625/4
An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death.
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Himmerland
2013
Mama
6.294/4504
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that...
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Mama
2016
Gods of Egypt
5.696/4442
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
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Gods of Egypt
2014
The Other Woman
6.421/3802
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three wome...
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The Other Woman
2007
Filthy Gorgeous
1.667/3
This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the liv...
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Filthy Gorgeous
2013
A Thousand Times Good Night
6.827/147
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home...
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A Thousand Times Good Night
2014
A Second Chance
6.6/170
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, rece...
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A Second Chance
2023
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
6.228/101
Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cel...
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
8.625/40
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2017
Shot Caller
6.969/2289
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern...
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Shot Caller
2008
The Kautokeino Rebellion
6.1/36
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
1997
Bent
6.85/160
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentrati...
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Bent
1999
Antenneforeningen
7.3/3
One evening, the cable TV connection disappears in an apartment building. The residents are told that they can no longer watch cable TV. This leads to...
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Antenneforeningen
2017
Small Crimes
5.364/297
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes...
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Small Crimes
2006
Firewall
5.85/1060
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a...
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Firewall
2017
3 Things
6.3/38
Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbe...
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3 Things
2025
My Fathers' Daughter
5.5/2
Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams abou...
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My Fathers' Daughter
2019
Domino
4.585/305
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...
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Domino
2017
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
7.725/111
A powerful ruler from House Targaryen begins a campaign to unite a fractured continent ruled by seven competing families. With the aid of formidable d...
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Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
2019
Exit Plan
5.918/98
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of...
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Exit Plan
1991
Requiem
0/0
A short film about the art of killing.
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Requiem
1993
Hit the Bag
8.333/3
A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and tak...
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Hit the Bag
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
7.086/5216
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Kingdom of Heaven
2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
7.04/354
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the...
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2020
The Silencing
6.494/844
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidn...
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The Silencing
2020
The Day We Died
5.588/17
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
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The Day We Died
2017
Chicken/Egg
9.5/2
Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.
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Chicken/Egg
2021
A Taste of Hunger
5.972/71
Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it a...
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A Taste of Hunger
2023
God Is a Bullet
6.245/298
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits...
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God Is a Bullet
2022
Against the Ice
6.77/641
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Against the Ice
The Last Mrs. Parrish
0/0
A con artist targets a wealthy couple — the Parrishes — as her next victims. She infiltrates the pair by befriending the wife and seducing the husband...
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
2019
Gone Hollywood
0/0
A look at how Hollywood talent agencies were run in the 1980s.
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Gone Hollywood
2004
The Good Cop
6.429/28
A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a ha...
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The Good Cop
2015
Klown Forever
5.766/62
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his bes...
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