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Mads Mikkelsen Biography

Mads Mikkelsen is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on November 22, 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for his role in Casino Royale (2006) as Le Chiffre, the villain. He was the TV star Hannibal Lecter in his television career. He landed roles in blockbuster films Doctor Strange (2016) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).

Daniel Craig co-starred with him in Casino Royale. starred alongside him in Casino Royale.

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen, R (Danish: [ˈmæs ˈmikl̩sn̩] ( listen ) ; born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he began acting in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy, and in his role as the brash yet sensitive policeman, Allan Fischer, in Peter Thorsboe’s Danish television series Rejseholdet (Unit One).

Mikkelsen made his film debut in 1996 as a drug dealer in Nicolas Winding Refn’s internationally successful film Pusher, which would later spawn two sequels. He went on to play marginalized, often comic roles in popular Danish movies. In 1999, Mikkelsen had a leading role as Lenny, a shy film expert who suffers from avoidant personality disorder, opposite Kim Bodnia in Refn’s Bleeder (1999). In 2000, Mikkelsen played a gangster opposite Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Copenhagen gangster movie, Flickering Lights. The following year, he gained wider popularity when he starred in the gay comedy Shake It All About (2001).

His brother is actor His brother is actor Lars Mikkelsen. His mother Bente Christiansen worked as a nurse and his father Henning Mikkelsen worked as a cab driver. He married Hanne Jacobsen in 2000 and he has two children named Viola and Carl.. His mother, Bente Christiansen, was a nurse while his father Henning Mikkelsen was a taxi driver. He married Hanne Jacobsen, and they have two children named Viola (and Carl).

NameMads Mikkelsen
First NameMads
Last NameMikkelsen
OccupationMovie Actor
BirthdayNovember 22
Birth Year1965
Place of BirthCopenhagen
Home Town
Birth CountryDenmark
Birth SignScorpio
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SpouseHanne Jacobsen
Children(s)Viola Jacobsen Mikkelsen, Carl Jacobsen Mikkelsen

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Mikkelsen’s breakthrough and his longest running role was as a sensitive policeman in Niels Arden Oplev’s Danish television series Rejseholdet (Unit One) (2000–03), for which he won the 2002 Best Actor Award from TvFestival.dk. The series’ 32 episodes stretched over four years. He became more widely known internationally for his role as Tristan in Jerry Bruckheimer’s production of the movie King Arthur (2004), which was a commercial success despite negative reviews.

Mads Mikkelsen Net Worth

Mads Mikkelsen is one of the richest Movie Actor from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mads Mikkelsen's net worth $14 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a child, he wanted to be an athlete and began gymnastics. He made his film debut in Pusher, after completing theater school.

He was the leading role in the Oscar-nominated Danish drama After the Wedding.

Mikkelsen was born on 22 November 1965 in Østerbro, Copenhagen, the second son of Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a bank teller and trade union official. He and his older brother, Lars Mikkelsen, who is also an actor, were raised in Nørrebro.

Net Worth$14 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeMovie Actor
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In his youth, he trained as a gymnast, wanting to pursue athletics, but then studied dancing at the Balettakademien (ballet academy) in Gothenburg where he also became fluent in Swedish. During his dancing career, Mikkelsen met choreographer Hanne Jacobsen, whom he married in 2000. He was a professional dancer for almost a decade until he left it behind to study drama at the Århus Theatre School in 1996, embarking on a career in acting.

In 2002, Mikkelsen had a starring role as a young doctor who falls in love with the girlfriend of one of his patients in Open Hearts which earned him both Robert and Bodil nominations in 2003 for best actor. He also won best actor for this performance at the Rouen Nordic Film Festival in 2003. In 2003, Mikkelsen had a leading role as a man who leaves his wife and child in the short film Nu. He starred opposite Kaas in The Green Butchers, playing an orphaned butcher’s assistant in a small provincial Danish town, where human meat is a specialty. He won the Fantasporto Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the butcher. Later in 2003, he starred in Pablo Berger’s Spanish film Torremolinos 73, about an exasperated encyclopedia salesman who exports pornographic films to Scandinavian countries under the pretense of being an audiovisual encyclopedia of human reproduction. Although a critical success in Spain, the film was poorly received in Scandinavian countries.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 2000, Mikkelsen married choreographer Hanne Jacobsen, whom he had been dating since 1987. They have a daughter, Viola (born 1992), and a son, Carl (born 1997).

In 2006, Mikkelsen starred opposite Stine Stengade and Jana Plodková in Ole Christian Madsen’s award-winning film Prag (Prague). His role as Christoffer earned him the Zulu Award for Best Actor and Bodil and Robert Festival nominations for Best Actor. Eddie Cockrell of Variety noted his “rigid countenance” in an “outstanding” performance. The same year, Mikkelsen achieved his first widely acclaimed international success as Le Chiffre in the twenty-first James Bond film, Casino Royale. Mikkelsen has said that he so easily won the part that even Daniel Craig asked him if he had slept with someone in order to be cast. He said of the casting, “They’d done their homework, seen my stuff, so it was fine, just a bit of anti-climax, because I was so ready to do more for them, but it was … shrugs… you’re in.” He also stated that because he was already a big film star in Denmark at the time, that the international role did not really change much. Roger Ebert noted the suspense during Mikkelsen’s scene with Bond during the extended poker game, in which Le Chiffre weeps blood from his left eye. David Edelstein of New York Magazine said “Mikkelsen clicks his rectangular plaques as if he’s a new breed of praying mantis. He’s bloodcurdling.” In 2006, Mikkelsen also took the lead role in the Danish drama After the Wedding, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. He won the Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a European Film Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance. The New York Times remarked that on 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.”

Who is Mads Mikkelsen Dating?

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In 2004, Mikkelsen reprised his role as drug dealer Tonny in the Pusher sequel, Pusher II. His performance was acclaimed, garnering him the Bodil Award for Best Actor, Zulu Award for Best Actor and Robert Festival Award for Best Actor. One writer likened his pose in the mirror in the film to Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. In 2005, Mikkelsen portrayed an “unorthodox country vicar” named Ivan who challenges a neo-Nazi (Ulrich Thomsen) who has been sentenced to community service to bake an apple pie in Adam’s Apples.

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In 2008, Mikkelsen portrayed Danish resistance fighter Jørgen Haagen Schmith opposite Thure Lindhardt and Stine Stengade in Ole Christian Madsen’s Flame & Citron (Flammen & Citronen), a film which is loosely based on actual events involving two of the most active fighters in the Holger Danske resistance group during World War II. Mikkelsen’s character nicknamed “Citronen” is named after a Citroën factory in which he works. Michael O’ Sullivan of The Washington Post likened Mikkelsen and Lindhardt’s characters to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and said that it is “the story of handsome rogues with guns. It’s fast-paced, stylish and thrilling.” In 2008, Mikkelsen also provided the voice for the character Le Chiffre in the Quantum of Solace video game, and he represented Le Chiffre when he was invited to the launch of Swiss watchmaker Swatch’s “007 Villain Collection” in Bregenz, Austria. The following year, gaining a reputation as one of Europe’s most sensuous male actors, Mikkelsen played a hot-blooded Stravinsky opposite Anna Mouglalis in Jan Kounen’s critically acclaimed Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky based on the romance between the composer and the fashion designer. Empire magazine described it as a “visually stunning film [which] focuses on Chanel and Stravinsky’s illicit relationship in 1920s France.” Philip French of The Observer described the film as a “beautiful, intelligent, shallow film, like a pane of plate glass that at first glance looks like a deep lake”, and remarked that Mikkelsen’s Stravinsky matched Mouglalis’s Coco Chanel as a “fellow modernist and equally cool egotist.” Mikkelsen then returned to violent action, collaborating once again with Refn, playing a Norse warrior in the Crusades in Valhalla Rising (2009) and Draco, a self-sacrificing leader of the king’s guard in Clash of the Titans (2010). Valhalla Rising was shot entirely in Scotland.

Why did they replace Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts?

Mikkelsen was tapped to replace Depp in the role of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald after Depp lost a high-profile libel suit against Britain’s The Sun tabloid newspaper in 2020.

How many languages does Mads Mikkelsen speak?

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Are Lars and Mads Mikkelsen related?

Older brother of Mads Mikkelsen. Lars is about one and a half years older than Mads. Son of Henning Mikkelsen.

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