Nikolaj Lie Kaas

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Nikolaj Lie Kaas (2014)

Nikolaj Lie Kaas (born May 22, 1973 in Glostrup ) is a Danish film and theater actor. The son of an actor couple made his film debut as a teenager in the early 1990s and has since appeared in 40 film and television roles, mostly dramas. He has been awarded the most important Danish film awards Bodil and Robert several times.

Life

Childhood and feature film debut

Nikolaj Lie Kaas was born in 1973 to the actor and comedian Preben Kaas and Anne Mari Lie, also an actress. The half-brother Jeppe Kaas , from his father's second marriage, is also an actor and conductor . His father, best known in Denmark for his role as dynamite Harry in the films of the Olsen Gang , committed suicide in 1981. His mother took her own life when Kaas was fifteen years old. Despite the blows of fate in the family, Nikolaj Lie Kaas decided to follow in his parents' footsteps and also pursue a career as an actor. In 1991 he made his feature film debut in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's The Boys of St. Petri . In the drama, which is based on a script by Kragh-Jacobsen and Bjarne Reuter , the then 17-year-old slipped into the role of Otto , who joined a group of classmates in the Nazi- occupied Denmark who quietly rebels against the occupiers. The boys who hang up posters and steal the helmets of the German soldiers are urged to increasingly violent measures by the son of a collaborator. Nikolaj Lie Kaas was already highly praised by the critics for his first film role, and in 1992 he was awarded the two most important Danish film awards Bodil and Robert for Best Supporting Actor.

After his successful acting debut, Nikolaj Lie Kaas appeared two years later in Erik Clausen's My Childhood on Funen , an adaptation of the autobiography of the Danish composer and conductor Carl Nielsen (1865–1931). At the age of 21 Kaas began studying at the National Theater School in Copenhagen and graduated in acting in 1998. In that year he also managed to build on his previous success with Lars von Trier's Idioten . Alongside Thomas Vinterberg's Das Fest , the drama about a group of young people who pretend to be mentally disabled is considered one of the first representatives of the dogma movement, and Kaas again won the Bodil as best supporting actor in 1999 for the role of Jeppe . The actor then appeared both in films and on the theater stage, where he shone in classical plays at the Royal Theater as well as in experimental dramas on smaller stages. This was followed by the comedies In China They Eat Dogs and Flickering Lights by Lasse Spang Olsen and Anders Thomas Jensen , with which he did not commit to a certain type of role or even parodied himself. Kaas appeared in the play Peer Gynt at the Royal Theater in 2001 , and in the same year he celebrated another success in Danish cinema. In Åke Sandgren's dogma film A Real Person , Kaas plays the invisible P who exists in the fantasy of a 7-year-old girl, but gradually matures into a real person. For this he won the Robert for Best Actor a year later.

Success with "Open Hearts" and an international film career

The international success came in 2002 through the cooperation with the Dogma director Susanne Bier . In the relationship drama Open Hearts , Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays Joachim , who plans to marry his girlfriend Cæcilie (played by Sonja Richter ). The future plans are thrown overboard when the young man is run over and suffers from paraplegia. Paprika Steen and Mads Mikkelsen were cast in the work in other roles , it was in the favor of critics and cinema audiences and received numerous awards, including awards from the Danish Film Academy and the Association of Danish Film Critics for Best Film of the Year. Nikolaj Lie Kaas, who was not even thirty years old, was awarded the Bodil and Robert for the third time as Best Supporting Actor.

Kaas remained loyal to success in 2003 with the role in Ivanhoe at the Royal Theater, as well as in 2004 with the drama Brothers - Between Brothers, in which he again worked with the director Susanne Bier and Ulrich Thomsen and Connie Nielsen were his film partners. Kaas, who is now one of the most famous actors in Danish cinema, worked on six film productions until 2006, including Scott Z. Burns' drama The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, in which he made his debut in international English-language cinema alongside Paddy Considine and Radha Mitchell . After a role in the German television production Der Kommissar und das Meer (2008), another role in international cinema followed in 2009 with the part of Mr. Gray in Ron Howard's literary film adaptation Illuminati alongside Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer . Again praise from the specialist critics in Denmark brought Kaas the portrayal of the well-known actor Dirch Passer (1926-1980) in Martin Zandvliet's film biography Dirch (2011), for which he again the Robert and Bodil as best actor and the Ove Sprogøe Prize won.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas has been married to the makeup artist Anne Langkilde since 2008. With her he stood in front of the camera in 2003 in Danish Delicacies . Parallel to his career as a film actor, he also pursues a successful theater career. Kaas was awarded the renowned Reumert Theater Prize for Best Actor for his interpretation of Peer Gynt at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen . In 2012 he took on the role of Oskar Matzerath in Katrine Wiedemann's production of Günter Grass ' Die Blechtrommel ( Bliktrommen ) at the Betty Nansen Theater. In the same year he was in a leading role in the third season of the crime series Kommissarin Lund - Das Verbrechen ( Forbrydelsen III ) as an employee of the Danish secret service (PET). The portrayal of Mathias Borch earned him Robert as best leading actor in a television series in 2013.

In May 2012 it was announced that Nikolaj Lie Kaas will play Carl Mørck, the leading role in the film adaptations of the successful crime series by Jussi Adler-Olsen . As part of the international production, ten films are planned over a period of ten years - Lie Kaas has committed to the first four. The first film Mercy ( Kvinden i buret ) was released in German cinemas on January 23, 2014.

Filmography (selection)

Plays

  • 1998: Boy and the Darkness - Role: Dengse (Teater Mungo Park)
  • 1998: Pitty She's a Bitch - Role: Giovanni (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 1999: The Quay West - Role: Fak (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 1999: History of Meanness - Role: Kasimir (Kaleidoskop)
  • 1999: Love Quarrels - Role: Dumain (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2000: The Unpredictable - Role: Torben (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2000: Eremits - Role: Antonius (Café Theater)
  • 2001: Peer Gynt - Role: Peer Gynt (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2002: Fighting Zone - Role: Michel (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2003: Ivanhoe - Role: Ivanhoe (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2004: Summerguests - role: Vassla (Betty Nansen Teatret)
  • 2004: Democrat (Betty Nansen Teatret)
  • 2005: San Diego (Det Kongelige Teater)
  • 2006: Rosenkranz & Güldenstern ( Rosenkrantz og Gyldenstjerne - Aveny-T)
  • 2008: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( Hvem er bange for Virginia Woolf ) - Role: Nick (Ostre Gasvaerk TeaterØstre Gasværk Teater)
  • 2012: The Tin Drum ( Bliktrommen ) - Role: Oskar Matzerath (Betty Nansen Teatret)

Awards

Bodil

  • 1992: Best supporting actor for The Boys of St. Petri
  • 1999: Best Supporting Actor for Idiots
  • 2002: nominated for Best Actor for A Real Person
  • 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Open Hearts
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Actor for Brothers - Between Brothers
  • 2012: Best Actor for Dirch

Robert

  • 1992: Best supporting actor for The Boys of St. Petri
  • 2001: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Flickering Lights
  • 2002: Best Actor for A Real Person
  • 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Open Hearts
  • 2004: Nominated for Best Actor for Danish Delicacies
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Brothers - Between Brothers
  • 2006: Nominated for Best Actor for Death Wedding
  • 2007: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Genius and the Madness
  • 2008: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Unconditional
  • 2012: Best Actor for Dirch
  • 2013: Best Actor in a TV Series for Commissioner Lund - Das Verbrechen III
  • 2014: nominated for Best Actor for Mercy

Further

Shooting Star

  • 2003: Shooting Star Award

Cinemanila International Film Festival

  • 2004: Best Actor for Reconstruction

Indianapolis International Film Festival

  • 2005: Special jury award for the drama ensemble (together with Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen and Bent Mejding) for Brothers - Between Brothers

Reumert price

  • 1999: Talent Award
  • 2002: Best Actor for Peer Gynt
  • 2005: nominated for Best Actor for Democracy

Ove Sprogøe Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile in the Dansk film database (Danish; accessed on May 6, 2009)
  2. ↑ Lyding, Henrik: Bliktrommen (Betty Nansen Teatret)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at kpn.dk, February 24, 2012 (accessed March 11, 2012).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / kpn.dk  
  3. ↑ Born Grebe, Matthias: Jussi Adler-Olsen adaptation: Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays Carl Mørck (accessed on 22 May 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Kaas, Nikolaj Lie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Glostrup , Denmark