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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor, film producer, and screenwriter who began his professional career in 1993. Born on July 27, 1970, in Rudkøbing, he holds citizenship in the Danish Realm and speaks Danish. He received his education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.
His work has been recognized with nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Coster-Waldau is married to Nukâka Coster-Waldau, and the couple has two children.
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Film & TV
Acting · Rudkobing, Denmark
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding…
Known for
- My Fathers' Daughter — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau2025
- World of Westeros Ambient Video — Jaime Lannister2025
- King & Conqueror — William of Normandy2025
- Horses & Hangmen2025
- An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet — Self - Presenter2024
- The Flash — Pizza Guy2023
- Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever — Martin2023
- God Is a Bullet — Bob Hightower2023
- The Last Thing He Told Me — Owen Michaels2023
- Agent — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 330
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
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- NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data
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- Sequence and structure-based prediction of eukaryotic protein phosphorylation sites
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- The control of human mesenchymal cell differentiation using nanoscale symmetry and disorder
· 2007 · cited 2,166x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nikolaj
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Rudkøbing
- Spouse
- Nukâka Coster-Waldau
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Danish National School of Performing Arts
- Languages spoken
- Danish
- Image
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 2022.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- name in native language
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- date of birth
- 1970-07-27
- social media followers
- 608655
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Encyclopedic overview
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau ([ˈne̝koˌlɑjˀ ˈkʰʌstɐ ˈvæltɑw]; born on 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor. His breakthrough role was in Denmark with the film Nightwatch in 1994. He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark, other Scandinavian countries, and the U.S. These include Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S., his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient MSG Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. As of 2021 Coster-Waldau is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.
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