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- ).
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Ulrich Thomsen
Filmography
Movies
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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% |
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The Good Traitor | Henrik Kaufmann (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Erna at War | Meier (Character) | - | 2020 |
36% |
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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% |
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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% |
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Mortdecai | Romanov (Character) | $7.7M | 2015 |
52% |
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A Second Chance | Simon (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Miracle | Jakob (Character) | - | 2014 |
67% |
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The Notebook | Officer (Character) | $66.2K | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Aya | Mr. Overby (Character) | - | 2012 |
34% |
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The Thing | Dr. Sander Halvorson (Character) | $16.9M | 2011 |
11% |
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Season of the Witch | Eckhart (Character) | $24.8M | 2011 |
87% |
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The Silence | Peer Sommer (Character) | $99.7K | 2010 |
78% |
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In a Better World | Claus (Character) | $1.0M | 2010 |
60% |
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Centurion | Gorlacon (Character) | $122.3K | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tell Tale | Doctor Lethe (Character) | - | 2009 |
58% |
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The International | Jonas Skarssen (Character) | $25.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Lulu and Jimi | Harry Hass (Character) | - | 2009 |
71% |
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Fear Me Not | Mikael (Character) | - | 2008 |
51% |
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The Broken | Dr. Robert Zachman (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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The Substitute | Jesper Osböll (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Opium: Diary of a Madwoman | Dr. Brenner (Character) | - | 2007 |
16% |
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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 |
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Clash of Egos (Spraengfarlig bombe) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
70% |
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Adam's Apples | Adam (Character) | - | 2005 |
63% |
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Allegro | Zetterstrøm (Character) | $7.3K | 2005 |
40% |
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Kingdom of Heaven | Templar Master (Character) | $47.4M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Verdades Ocultas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
89% |
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Brothers | Michael (Character) | $385.0K | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Sergeant Pepper | Johnny Sínger (Character) | - | 2004 |
75% |
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The Inheritance | Christoffer (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Blueprint | Dr. Martin Fisher (Character) | - | 2003 |
0% |
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Killing Me Softly | Klaus (Character) | - | 2002 |
69% |
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Max | Captain Mayr (Character) | $527.0K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lika a Rock | Henrik (Character) | - | 2002 |
40% |
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Mike Bassett: England Manager | Dr. Hans Shoegaarten (Character) | - | 2001 |
92% |
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Mostly Martha | Sam Thalberg (Character) | $4.2M | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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The Zookeeper | Dragov (Character) | - | 2001 |
70% |
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Flickering Lights | Peter (Character) | - | 2000 |
34% |
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The Weight of Water | John Hontvedt (Character) | $102.6K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angel of the Night | Alex (Character) | - | 1999 |
51% |
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The World Is Not Enough | Chief of Security Sasha Davidov (Character) | $126.9M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Election Night | Peter (Character) | - | 1999 |
91% |
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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% |
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Nightwatch | Rod 1 (Character) | - | 1994 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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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 |