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Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen

Highest Rated: 92% Mostly Martha (2001)

Lowest Rated: 0% Killing Me Softly (2002)

Birthday: Dec 6, 1963

Birthplace: Odense, Denmark

Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen tackled complex lead and supporting roles to great critical acclaim in such films as "The Celebration"(1998), "The Inheritance" (2003) and "The Commune" (2016). Born December 6, 1963 in Odense, Denmark, he honed his craft at the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance, from which he graduated in 1993, and became a regular presence in Danish theater.  His feature film debut, in Ole Bornedal's thriller "Nightwatch" (1994), came shortly after graduation, with his first breakout role, as a bank robber who discovers that he has a teenaged daughter in Thomas Vinterberg's "The Biggest Heroes" (1996), arriving two years later. Thomsen rose to international acclaim in 1998 with Vinterberg's dark family drama "The Celebration," which served as the opening volley of the Dogme 95 cinema movement. The attention afforded to the film, and to his Best Actor nomination at the European Film Academy Awards, led to not only more acclaimed work in his native country - most notably the Oscar-winning Danish short "Election Night" (1998) - but also work outside its borders, beginning in 1999 with the James Bond thriller "The World is Not Enough." From there, he played a wide variety of character roles in English-language features: a 19th Norwegian immigrant accused of murder in Kathryn Bigelow's "The Weight of Water" (2002), a Nazi officer in "Max" (2002), German scientist Gerhard Zucker in "The Rocket Post" (2004), a reporter in Chen Kaige's English-language drama "Killing Me Softly" (2002) and a Templar in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005). But he also remained a top star in his native country earning a Bodil - Denmark's top acting award - for "Arven" ("The Inheritance"), a drama about a man forced to take over his family's failed business, and netted two more Bodil nominations for "Brodre" ("Brothers," 2004) for his performance as a security officer forced to commit atrocities while under capture in Afghanistan, and "Den du Frygter" ("Fear Me Not," 2008), playing a man who undergoes severe personality changes while taking an experimental medicine. The following years found him working more in English-language titles than European features, but the majority of these - Tom Twyker's "The International" (2009) and "Duplicity" (2009), both with Clive Owen, the period thrillers "Centurion" (2010) and "Season of the Witch" (2011), and the horror-science fiction hybrid "The Thing" (2011) - were largely unremarkable. He found more substantive work in European efforts like "The Notebook" (2013) for Hungarian director Janos Szasz, and netted back to back Bodil nominations for "Summer of '92" (2015) about the Danish soccer team's greatest season, and "The Commune" (2016), which reunited him with Vinterberg. During this period, he also enjoyed his widest exposure to American audiences as a former Amish-turned-crime-lord on the Cinemax series "Banshee" (2013-2016) and an international criminal with a secret on "The Blacklist" (NBC, 2013- ). In 2016, Thomsen made his directorial debut with the noirish thriller "In Embryo," shortly before reuniting with Bornedal for the comic crime film "Small Town Killers" (2017) and a supporting role on the science fiction series "Counterpart" (Starz, 2018- ).

Highest rated movies

92% 89% Mostly Martha
91% 94% The Celebration
89% 85% Brothers
87% 71% The Silence
78% 86% In a Better World
75% 84% The Inheritance
71% 60% The Commune
71% 60% Fear Me Not

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boundless Carl Mørck (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stockholm Bloodbath Hemming Gadh (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Before It Ends Lauritz (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ripple Hammer (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hold My Hand Claes (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Marco Effect Carl Mørck (Character) - 2021
44% 80% The Good Traitor Henrik Kaufmann (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Erna at War Meier (Character) - 2020
36% 40% American Sausage Standoff Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing
- 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Space Between the Lines Bernhard (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet 1989 - a spy story Jeremy Redman (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Love & War Müller (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Small Town Killers Edward (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Darling Unknown (Character) - 2017
71% 60% The Commune Erik (Character) $38.3K 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Embryo Peter (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Summer of '92 Richard Møller Nielsen (Character) - 2015
12% 31% Mortdecai Romanov (Character) $7.7M 2015
52% 56% A Second Chance Simon (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Miracle Jakob (Character) - 2014
67% 67% The Notebook Officer (Character) $66.2K 2013
No Score Yet 80% Aya Mr. Overby (Character) - 2012
34% 43% The Thing Dr. Sander Halvorson (Character) $16.9M 2011
11% 30% Season of the Witch Eckhart (Character) $24.8M 2011
87% 71% The Silence Peer Sommer (Character) $99.7K 2010
78% 86% In a Better World Claus (Character) $1.0M 2010
60% 43% Centurion Gorlacon (Character) $122.3K 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tell Tale Doctor Lethe (Character) - 2009
58% 37% The International Jonas Skarssen (Character) $25.5M 2009
No Score Yet 50% Lulu and Jimi Harry Hass (Character) - 2009
71% 60% Fear Me Not Mikael (Character) - 2008
51% 26% The Broken Dr. Robert Zachman (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 47% The Substitute Jesper Osböll (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 51% Opium: Diary of a Madwoman Dr. Brenner (Character) - 2007
16% 57% Hitman Mikhail Belicoff (Character) $39.7M 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Clash of Egos Tonny Jensen (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Impossibly Yours Jan (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 52% Clash of Egos (Spraengfarlig bombe) Unknown (Character) - 2006
70% 90% Adam's Apples Adam (Character) - 2005
63% 74% Allegro Zetterstrøm (Character) $7.3K 2005
40% 72% Kingdom of Heaven Templar Master (Character) $47.4M 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Verdades Ocultas Unknown (Character) - 2005
89% 85% Brothers Michael (Character) $385.0K 2004
No Score Yet 40% Sergeant Pepper Johnny Sínger (Character) - 2004
75% 84% The Inheritance Christoffer (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 65% Blueprint Dr. Martin Fisher (Character) - 2003
0% 40% Killing Me Softly Klaus (Character) - 2002
69% 64% Max Captain Mayr (Character) $527.0K 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lika a Rock Henrik (Character) - 2002
40% 76% Mike Bassett: England Manager Dr. Hans Shoegaarten (Character) - 2001
92% 89% Mostly Martha Sam Thalberg (Character) $4.2M 2001
No Score Yet 53% The Zookeeper Dragov (Character) - 2001
70% 90% Flickering Lights Peter (Character) - 2000
34% 38% The Weight of Water John Hontvedt (Character) $102.6K 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Angel of the Night Alex (Character) - 1999
51% 49% The World Is Not Enough Chief of Security Sasha Davidov (Character) $126.9M 1999
No Score Yet 77% Election Night Peter (Character) - 1999
91% 94% The Celebration Christian Klingenfeldt (Character) $1.6M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Credo Svane (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Biggest Heroes Peter (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Portland Lasse (Character) - 1996
63% 79% Nightwatch Rod 1 (Character) - 1994

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 100% Trom Hannis Martinsson (Character) 2022
90% 82% The New Pope Unknown (Character) 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Face to Face Bjørn (Character) 2019
100% 89% Counterpart Aldrich (Character) 2018-2019
90% 92% Banshee Kai Proctor (Character) 2013-2016
73% No Score Yet The Company Unknown (Character) 2007
86% 88% Alias Ulrich Kottor (Guest Star) 2005