Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen was born on Nov 22, 1965 in Denmark. Mads Mikkelsen's big-screen debut came with Blomsterfangen directed by Jens Arentzen in 1996, strarring Max. Mads Mikkelsen is known for Riders of Justice directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, Mads Mikkelsen stars as Markus and Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Otto. Mads Mikkelsen has got 43 awards and 53 nominations so far. The most recent award Mads Mikkelsen achieved is CinEuphoria Awards. The upcoming new movie Mads Mikkelsen plays is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which will be released on Jun 30, 2023.

Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors. The success in his home country includes Lumières dansantes (2000), En kort en lang (2001) and the Emmy-winning police series Rejseholdet (2000).His success has taken him abroad where he has played alongside Gérard Depardieu in Dina (2002) as well as in the Spanish comedy Torremolinos, le strip-tease de ma copine (2003) and the American blockbuster Le roi Arthur (2004).He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the critically acclaimed NBC series Hannibal (2013), from 2013 to 2015, with great success.