1. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 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.
23 Facts About Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam, and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has spoken in interviews about his father's problems with alcohol, as well as his parents' divorce.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has two older sisters, and was raised mainly by his mother.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau attended the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance from 1989 to 1993.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau made his stage debut as Laertes in Hamlet at the Betty Nansen Theater.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau then went on to play in Simon Staho's Wildside, which he co-wrote, and starred in Danish films such as Misery Harbour.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in his first British film Bent.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau had a leading role in Michael Apted's Enigma and played a villain in the action film My Name is Modesty.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in the 2013 horror film Mama alongside Jessica Chastain, which then debuted at number one in the US box office and grossed over $140 million worldwide.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau went on to play Sykes, a military weapons expert in the science fiction action thriller film Oblivion.
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In 2016, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau appeared in the action-fantasy film Gods of Egypt as Horus.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau then appeared in the Danish film 3 Things, a thriller about a prime suspect of a bank robbery who negotiates the terms of his witness protection deal.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in Roman Waugh's prison film Shot Caller, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on 16 June 2017.
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That same year, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau launched a production company named Ill Kippers.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in The Silencing, a thriller directed by Robin Pront.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau filmed in secret the movie The Day We Died by Ole Christian Madsen.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was to have played Macbeth in 2020, in a production of Shakespeare's tragedy reuniting with Matt Shakman at the Geffen Playhouse.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau married Nukaka, a Greenlandic actress and singer, in 1997 and they live in Copenhagen with their two daughters as well as two dogs.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's father-in-law is Josef Motzfeldt, a member of the Parliament of Greenland and former leader of the Community of the People Party.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau published a very emotional video to thank Marcelo Bielsa, Leeds head coach in 2020, when the team was finally promoted to the Premier League again after 16 years.
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In 2017 Nikolaj 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.