Place of Birth:
Odense, Denmark
Date of Birth:
12/6/1963
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.
The Celebration
Adam's Apples
Flickering Lights
Hitman
The Broken
Brothers
Boundless
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman
The International
Season of the Witch
Blueprint
Baby Doom
The Rocket Post
Centurion
Lulu and Jimi
The Substitute
Tell-Tale
Angel of the Night
Killing Me Softly
The Silence
The Thing
Clash of Egos
In a Better World
The Inheritance
Fear Me Not
Before It Ends
The Biggest Heroes
Allegro
Take My Hand
Election Night
Portland
Impossibly Yours
P.O.V. - Point of View
Credo
Aya
The Zookeeper
The Notebook
Ripple
The Miracle
A Second Chance
In der Überzahl
Café Hector
Sergeant Pepper
The World Is Not Enough
The Commune
Apparat
Mortdecai
Nightwatch
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Max
Stockholm Bloodbath
Summer of '92
Baby
Kingdom of Heaven
The Weight of Water
Small Town Killers
In Embryo
Duplicity
A Regular Thing
Darling
In Love & War
Royal Blues
Shadow of a Hero
Ins Leben zurück
Slaget på tasken
1989: A Spy Story
Gooseboy
The Space Between the Lines
The Marco Effect
Mother at War
The Good Traitor
Solen er så rød
The Idiots Who Started The Party
A Violent Man
The Celebration in Retrospect