Mads Mikkelsen

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Mads Mikkelsen (2016)

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (born November 22, 1965 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish actor . Since the mid-1990s he has worked in more than 30 film and television productions, the majority of which were dramas . He gained international fame through the Danish relationship drama Forever and Forever (2002). For his portrayal of a petty criminal in Pusher II (2004) he was awarded the most important film prizes in Denmark. This was followed by major appearances in international cinema, including King Arthur (2004), James Bond 007: Casino Royale (2006) or Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009). In 2011 he was awarded the European Film Prize in the category Best European Performance in World Cinema . From 2013 to 2015 he played the title role in the psychological thriller television series Hannibal .

Life

Training and first film roles

Mads Mikkelsen was born in 1965 as the second son of a nurse and a bank clerk in Copenhagen and grew up there in the Nørrebro district . At school he excelled as a track and field athlete, before he came to expressive dance at the request of a choreographer and toured Denmark with musicals such as Chicago . He worked as a professional dancer for eight years before he decided to switch to acting. He attended drama school at the Aarhus Theater and graduated in 1996. In the same year he began his film career with supporting roles in the short films Café Hector and Der Blumensträfling . He also made his feature film debut in 1996 in Nicolas Winding Refn's action drama Pusher , in which he played the bald, drug-addicted Tonny . This memorable role was followed by other supporting roles in Danish films, including that of a father in the 1998 drama Vildspor . After Mikkelsen acted again in the award-winning thriller Bleeder under the direction of Nicolas Winding Refn, the male lead of Allan Fischer in the Danish television series Unit One followed from 2000 to 2004 . The series, a mobile special unit that helps the local police in Denmark to solve violent crimes, received critical acclaim and finally made Mikkelsen known to the Scandinavian film and television audience. The television series, which won awards in Denmark and which often took real crimes as a model for a total of 32 episodes, won the Emmy US film award in 2002 .

In parallel to this success, Mikkelsen were offered larger film roles. The Danish media also took notice of him and since then has celebrated him as the man with the most sex appeal in Denmark, and internationally he also made it to 25th place in the well-known list of the 100 most attractive film actors published annually by Empire magazine . In Anders Thomas Jensen's action comedy Flashing Lights , Mikkelsen played a petty criminal. This was followed by the leading role in Hella Joof's romantic comedy Shake It All About (2001) and participation in Lone Scherfig's internationally successful tragic comedy Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), for which he was each awarded the Danish Zulu Award . In 2002 she worked with the Danish Dogma director Susanne Bier in the relationship drama Open Hearts . With Open Hearts , Mikkelsen also became known to an international audience. The work, which was in the favor of critics and cinema audiences, has received numerous awards, including the Prize of the Danish Film Academy, the Robert and the Bodil , which is awarded by the Association of Danish Film Critics. Mikkelsen himself also received nominations for Robert and Bodil, each for Best Actor .

International career

Having become known to a wider audience, Mads Mikkelsen has now also received offers for roles in international productions. In 2003 he was seen in the Spanish comedy Die Torremolinos Homevideos , followed in 2004 by the supporting role of Tristan in the globally successful historical action film King Arthur . He was also seen in Danish film productions. In 2003, for example, he played the moronic and perpetually perspiring butcher Svend with an extra high forehead, again under Anders Thomas Jensen's direction, in the tragicomedy Danish Delicacies , for which he was again nominated for the most important Danish film awards Robert and Bodil. In 2004, Mikkelsen slipped into the role of Tonny again for the film Pusher II , the sequel to Nicolas Winding Refn's film from 1996 . His portrait for a drug addict who had been released from prison and who is building a new life for himself in freedom was the greatest success in Mikkelsen's career to date - and he received the Bodil and Robert for Best Actor.

Mads Mikkelsen (2009)

In 2005, Mikkelsen played a pastor in Adam's Apples who tried to rehabilitate criminals. In 2006, Mikkelsen worked on four film productions, including the leading roles in Susanne Bier's Oscar-nominated family drama After the Wedding , Peter Lindmark's mystery thriller Exit and the part of the impassive husband in Ole Christian Madsen's relationship drama Prague , which again received nominations for the two most important Danish film awards brought in. In the same year, Mikkelsen was part of the cast of the 21st Bond film Casino Royale . Here he embodied at the side of the new title hero Daniel Craig Bond's disfigured opponent Le Chiffre . This role was played by Peter Lorre and Orson Welles in the two previous film adaptations of Casino Royale .

Despite this renewed surge in popularity, Mikkelsen remained loyal to the domestic film industry, which he   regards as his "base" . He's also not considering moving to Hollywood. Mikkelsen was the advertising face for the autumn / winter 2007/2008 collection of the Swedish fashion company H&M .

In 2007 he again preferred Ole Christian Madsen. In Madsen's drama Days of Wrath (2008), set in Copenhagen during World War II, Mikkelsen acts as the eponymous hero. In 2009, he played the lead role of Igor Stravinsky in the Coco Chanel biography Coco & Igor . In the same year Mikkelsen was also seen in Anno Saul's German-language mystery thriller Die Tür (2009). Further roles in international cinema ( Clash of the Titans , Walhalla Rising , The Three Musketeers ) followed. In 2011, the actor received the award in the European Contribution to World Cinema category at the European Film Awards ceremony . According to the jury's statement, Mikkelsen embodies "again and again figures that attract us and at the same time teach us fear" .

2012 followed the portrayal of the enlightener Johann Friedrich Struensee in Nikolaj Arcels award-winning historical drama The Queen and the Personal Physician . In the same year he was directed by Thomas Vinterberg in Die Jagd as a father and kindergarten teacher in a small Danish town who is suspected of pedophilia because a child lies . The first Danish actor Mikkelsen won for this performance the Best Actor Award of the Film Festival of Cannes ; he also received his third nomination for the European Film Award for best actor and was again awarded the Bodil and Robert.

His third film project in 2012 was Move On , an international road movie that was created in collaboration with director Asger Leth and Deutsche Telekom AG . In it, Mikkelsen travels in the role of a secret agent through eight countries and has to bring a mysterious suitcase to an unknown destination.

Five other film productions with Mikkelsen followed by 2013, including the title role in Arnaud des Pallières ' Michael Kohlhaas adaptation (2013), which earned him a César nomination for best leading actor in 2014 . Mikkelsen also plays the role of Hannibal Lecter in the US television series Hannibal . The series is based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris , or rather tells the story behind it.

His theatrical work includes his stage debut in Lars Kaalund's art and the role of rocker Dan in Nikolaj Cederholms Paradis at the Dr. Dante in Copenhagen. As Romeo he acted in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Østre Gasværk Theater .

2015 he was in the video clip of Bitch Better Have My Money from Rihanna to see.

In 2016, Mikkelsen was appointed to the competition jury at the 69th Cannes International Film Festival .

In 2017 he starred in two movies, first in Doctor Strange as an opponent of Benedict Cumberbatch and then he played the father of the main character Jyn Erso (played by Felicity Jones ) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .

On January 25, 2019, the film adaptation Polar was released on Netflix , in which he played the main role Black Kaiser , and he also played the role of the elite soldier Clifford Unger in the video game Death Stranding , which was released in 2019.

Private life

Mads Mikkelsen has been in a relationship with the Danish choreographer Hanne Jacobsen since 1987 . The couple, married in 2001, live in Copenhagen and have a son and a daughter.

His one year older brother Lars Mikkelsen , with whom he appeared in front of the camera in Lotte Svendsen's short film Café Hector (1996) and the television series Unit One - The Specialists (2000), is also an actor and as such is very well known in Denmark.

Mikkelsen Poker has been one of his hobbies since shooting the James Bond film Casino Royale ; He promptly came into the focus of the international tabloids at the end of 2006 when he took part in an illegal tournament in Copenhagen that was raided by the police. According to him, however, he did not know that it was illegal.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Mikkelsen (center) while filming Walhalla Rising (2009)

Bodil

  • 2003: Nominated for Best Actor for Open Hearts
  • 2004: Nominated for Best Actor for Danish Delicacies
  • 2005: Best Actor for Pusher II
  • 2007: Nominated as Best Actor for Prague
  • 2013: nominated as Best Actor for The Queen and the Personal Physician
  • 2014: Best Actor for Die Jagd

European film award

  • 2006 : Nominated for Best Actor for After the Wedding
  • 2008 : Nominated for Best Actor (together with Thure Lindhardt ) for Days of Anger
  • 2011 : European contribution to world cinema
  • 2012 : Nominated for Best Actor for The Hunt

Robert

  • 2002: Nominated for Best Actor for Shake It All About
  • 2003: Nominated for Best Actor for Open Hearts
  • 2005: Best Actor for Pusher II
  • 2006: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Adam's Apples
  • 2007: Nominated for Best Actor for After the Wedding and Prague
  • 2009: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Days of Anger
  • 2011: Nominated for Best Actor for Walhalla Rising
  • 2013: nominated as Best Actor for The Queen and the Personal Physician
  • 2014: Best Actor for Die Jagd

Zulu Award

  • 2002: Best Actor for Shake It All About
  • 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  • 2005: Best Actor for Pusher II
  • 2007: Best Actor for Prague

Further

documentary

  • My life - Mads Mikkelsen. Documentary, Germany, Austria, Denmark, 2011, 43 min .; Script and direction: Jean Boué , production: Telekult, ZDF , arte , German first broadcast: December 4th, 2011 on arte

literature

Web links

Commons : Mads Mikkelsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Casati : Danes don't smile ( Memento from August 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2008 (interview)
  2. ↑ a b Patrick Heidmann: Who could have said no? In: Berliner Zeitung , August 31, 2006, issue 203, miscellaneous, p. 10
  3. ↑ List available at: 25. Mads Mikkelsen - The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars 2013 - www.empireonline.com
  4. ↑ Peter Zander: Prince Denmark. In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 5, 2007, edition 35/2007, culture, p. 16
  5. ↑ Mad about Mads ( Memento from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on archiv.org (English)
  6. ↑ H&M Man Collection on about.hm.com, July 2, 2007 (English)
  7. ↑ EFA honors Mads Mikkelsen at europeanfilmacademy.org, October 25, 2011, (accessed November 1, 2011)
  8. ↑ Jan Füchtjohann: Hannibal asks to table. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 8, 2013
  9. ↑ Illegal Gambling - Bond opponents cannot stop playing poker in FAZ , December 20, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Mikkelsen, Mads
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mikkelsen, Mads Dittmann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark