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Ulrich Thomsen
Odense, Denmark
Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinem…
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Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016). Ulrich Thomsen was born in (Næsby) Odense, Denmark and graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which he performed in several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater. His film debut was in 1994 in Nightwatch, directed by Ole Bornedal. Since then, he has starred in several roles, including, among others, Thomas Vinterberg's The Biggest Heroes (1996), Susanne Bier's Sekten (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights (2000). The breakthrough in his career came in the 1998 film, Followed by an essential role in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999) portraying the part of henchman Sasha Davidov. This established Thomsen as an international actor, famous outside his native Denmark. He played a part in the 2002 English film Killing Me Softly. In 2009, he played Jonas Skarssen, the lead villain in Tom Tykwer's The International. From 2013 to 2016, he starred as a series regular in Banshee, playing the primary antagonist, Kai Proctor. Aside from his native language, Danish, Thomsen is fluent in German and English. He is vegan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Thomsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Austerity
Movie Nikolajs far
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2026
Lanterns
TV show Sinestro
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2025
Run
Movie Matt
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2025
Dead Language
Movie Esben
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2024
Grundtvig
TV show Grundtvig
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2024
Boundless
Movie Carl Mørck
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2024
Stockholm Bloodbath
Movie Hemming Gadh
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2023
Ripple
Movie Hammer
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2023
Before It Ends
Movie Lauritz
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2023
Agent
TV show Ulrich Thomsen
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2022
All Exclusive
TV show Sig selv
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2022
Shining Girls
TV show Britta's Husband
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2022
Trom
TV show Hannios Martinsson
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2022
A Violent Man
Movie Warden Goodwillie
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2022
Take My Hand
Movie Claes
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2021
American Sausage Standoff
Movie Producer
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2021
The Marco Effect
Movie Carl Mørck
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2020
Mother at War
Movie Feldwebel Meier
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2020
The Idiots Who Started The Party
Movie Sig selv
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2020
The Good Traitor
Movie Henrik Kauffmann
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2020
The New Pope
TV show Doctor Lindegard
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2019
Face to Face
TV show Bjørn Rasmussen
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2019
Gooseboy
Movie Knud Heinesen
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2019
The Space Between the Lines
Movie Bernhard
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2019
1989: A Spy Story
Movie Jeremy Redman
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2018
In Love & War
Movie Müller
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2017
Counterpart
TV show Aldrich
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2017
Darling
Movie Kristian
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2017
Small Town Killers
Movie Edward
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2016
In Embryo
Movie Peter
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2016
The Commune
Movie Erik
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2015
Summer of '92
Movie Richard Møller Nielsen
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2015
Ditte & Louise
TV show Sig selv
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2015
Shadow of a Hero
Movie Gustaf (voice)
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2015
Mortdecai
Movie Romanov
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2015
A Second Chance
Movie Simon
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2013
The Miracle
Movie Jakob
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2013
The Blacklist
TV show Alexander Kirk
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2013
The Notebook
Movie Offizier
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2013
Banshee
TV show Kai Proctor
