Jesper Christensen

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Jesper Allan Christensen (born May 16, 1948 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish actor .

life and career

Christensen first came into contact with acting as a student in the late 1960s . After living as a worker in Greenland and starting a teacher training course, from 1971 he worked as an actor at Fiolteatret in Copenhagen, among other things. As a theater actor, he appeared in all the major theaters in Copenhagen while he began his film and television career in the mid-1970s. In 1975 he worked on the multi-part television series Tadellöser & Wolff and Ein Kapitel für sich, staged by Eberhard Fechner and based on the autobiographical books by Walter Kempowski . For his fifth role as a dreamy unemployed person in Henning Carlsen's drama Hør, var der ikke en som lo? In the drama of Per Fly , he played a left-wing high school teacher who had an affair with a former student who committed murder . Christensen also became known to an international audience with films such as Italian for Beginners (2000) and The Interpreter (2005). In 2006 he played the role of the ominous Mr. White in the 21st film in the James Bond series, Casino Royale . He later took on the same role in the subsequent sequels Ein Quantum Trost (2008) and Specter (2015). In the TV series The Inheritance of the DR , he took on the role of Thomas Konrad. He also directed two episodes.

Christensen is married to the theater director Tove Bornhøft.

Filmography (selection)

Prizes and awards

  • In 1978 he won the Bodil , Denmark's oldest film award. He was to win this three more times (Barbara, Die Bank, Mansschlag - In the vicious circle of violence) . He was also honored four times with the Robert of the Danish Film Academy (Sofie, Den russiske sangerinde, Barbara, Die Bank) .
  • 2001: European Film Award , nomination in the category Best Actor for Homicide .
  • 2003: Nomination Bodil - Best Supporting Actor for Okay and Little Mishaps
  • 2003: Nomination for Robert - Best Supporting Actor for Little Mishaps
  • 2006: He turned down the award of the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jesper Christensen: No tak til ridderkors in: policies . December 5, 2006, accessed June 10, 2016