Mads Mikkelsen

About Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen is an actor and contestant working in English cinema and Hindi cinema. Clapnumber holds 77 titles for Mads Mikkelsen, from Café Hector in 1996 to Call of Duty in 2028. By decade, that is 7 in the 1990s, 23 in the 2000s, 20 in the 2010s and 18 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly adventure, family and fantasy.

Biography

Born November 22, 1965 in Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark Birth Name Mads Dittman Mikkelsen Height 6' (1.83 m) Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker. Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors. The success in his home country includes Flickering Lights (2000), Shake It (2001) and the Emmy-winning police series Rejseholdet (2000). His success has taken him abroad where he has played alongside Gérard Depardieu in I Am Dina (2002) as well as in the Spanish comedy Torremolinos 73 (2003) and the American blockbuster King Arthur (2004). He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the critically acclaimed NBC series Hannibal (2013), from 2013 to 2015, with great success.