Ulrich Thomsen

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1963-12-06 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Odense, Denmark

Also Known As Ulrik Thomsen, اولریش تامسن

Ulrich Thomsen

Biography

Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016). Ulrich Thomsen was born in (Næsby) Odense, Denmark and graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which he performed in several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater. His film debut was in 1994 in Nightwatch, directed by Ole Bornedal. Since then, he has starred in several roles, including, among others, Thomas Vinterberg's The Biggest Heroes (1996), Susanne Bier's Sekten (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights (2000). The breakthrough in his career came in the 1998 film, Followed by an essential role in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999) portraying the part of henchman Sasha Davidov. This established Thomsen as an international actor, famous outside his native Denmark. He played a part in the 2002 English film Killing Me Softly. In 2009, he played Jonas Skarssen, the lead villain in Tom Tykwer's The International. From 2013 to 2016, he starred as a series regular in Banshee, playing the primary antagonist, Kai Proctor. Aside from his native language, Danish, Thomsen is fluent in German and English. He is vegan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Thomsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2024
Boundless

as Carl Mørck

2024
Stockholm Bloodbath

as Hemming Gadh

2024
Grundtvig

as Grundtvig

2023
2023
Before It Ends

as Lauritz

2023
Agent

as Ulrich Thomsen

2022
A Violent Man

as Warden Goodwillie

2022
Take My Hand

as Claes

2022
2022
Shining Girls

as Britta's Husband

2022
Trom

as Hannios Martinsson

2021
The Marco Effect

as Carl Mørck

2020
Mother at War

as Feldwebel Meier

2020
The Good Traitor

as Henrik Kauffmann

2020
The New Pope

as Doctor Lindegard

2019
Gooseboy

as Knud Heinesen

2019
1989: A Spy Story

as Jeremy Redman

2019
Face to Face

as Bjørn Rasmussen

2018
In Love & War

as Müller

2017
Darling

as Kristian

2017
2017
Counterpart

as Aldrich

2016
In Embryo

as Peter

2016
The Commune

as Erik

2015
Summer of '92

as Richard Møller Nielsen

2015
Shadow of a Hero

as Gustaf (voice)

2015
Mortdecai

as Romanov

2015
Ditte & Louise

as Sig selv

2014
2013
The Miracle

as Jakob

2013
The Notebook

as Offizier

2013
In der Überzahl

as Stig Sørensen

2013
The Blacklist

as Alexander Kirk

2013
Banshee

as Kai Proctor

2013
Banshee: Origins

as Kai Proctor

2012
Aya

as Mr. Overby

2011
The Thing

as Dr. Sander Halvorson

2011
2011
Those Who Kill

as Martin Høeg

2010
2010
The Silence

as Peer Sommer

2010
Centurion

as Gorlacon

2010
ZULU Comedy Galla

as Ulrich Thomsen

2009
Tell-Tale

as Lethe

2009
Duplicity

as Big Swiss Suit

2009
The International

as Jonas Skarssen

2009
Lulu and Jimi

as Harry Hass

2009
The Left Wing Gang

as Jørn Moos

2008
Fear Me Not

as Mikael

2008
The Broken

as Dr Robert Zachman

2008
Fringe

as Man in Zeppelin, aka Mr X

2007
Hitman

as Mikhail Belicoff

2007
2007
2007
The Substitute

as Jesper

2007
The Company

as Starik Zhilov

2006
Clash of Egos

as Tonny

2006
2005
Allegro

as Zetterstrom

2005
Kingdom of Heaven

as Templar Master

2005
2004
Sergeant Pepper

as Johnny Sínger

2004
Brothers

as Michael

2004
The Rocket Post

as Gerhard Zucher

2003
Blueprint

as Dr. Martin Fisher

2003
Ins Leben zurück

as Eric Lundgren

2003
Baby

as Marc

2003
The Inheritance

as Christoffer

2002
Max

as Captain Mayr

2002
2001
The Zookeeper

as Dragov

2001
Mike Bassett: England Manager

as Dr. Hans Shoegaarten

2000
2000
The Weight of Water

as John Hontvedt

2000
1999
Dybt vand

as Flygge

1998
1998
The Celebration

as Christian

1998
Baby Doom

as Magnus

1998
1997
Credo

as Svane

1997
Royal Blues

as Christian

1997
A Regular Thing

as Holger

1996
1996
Portland

as Lasse

1996
Café Hector

as Christian

1996
Bryggeren

as Gartner Jørgensen

1996
1994
Nightwatch

as Red 1

1993
Slaget på tasken

as Slipse-Peter

Producer

2016
In Embryo

as Executive Producer

2016
In Embryo

as Producer

2006
2003
Baby

as Executive Producer

Writer

2016
In Embryo

as Writer

Director

2016
In Embryo

as Director

Crew

2005
Manderlay

as Thanks