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Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen

Birthday: 1963-12-06 | Place of Birth: Odense, Denmark

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Dead Language

as    Esben

2025
Run

as    Matt

2024
Boundless

as    Carl Mørck

2024
Grundtvig

as    Grundtvig

2024
Stockholm Bloodbath

as    Hemming Gadh

2023
Before It Ends

as    Lauritz

2022
Take My Hand

as    Claes

2022
Trom

as    Hannios Martinsson

2022
A Violent Man

as    Warden Goodwillie

2021
The Marco Effect

as    Carl Mørck

2020
Mother at War

as    Feldwebel Meier

2020
The Good Traitor

as    Henrik Kauffmann

2020
2019
The Space Between the Lines

as    Bernhard

2019
1989: A Spy Story

as    Jeremy Redman

2018
In Love & War

as    Müller

2017
Small Town Killers

as    Edward

2017
Darling

as    Kristian

2016
The Commune

as    Erik

2015
Shadow of a Hero

as    Gustaf (voice)

2015
Summer of '92

as    Richard Møller Nielsen

2015
Mortdecai

as    Romanov

2014
A Second Chance

as    Simon

2013
The Miracle

as    Jakob

2013
Banshee

as    Kai Proctor

2013
The Notebook

as    Offizier

2013
The Silence

as    Peer Sommer