Movies & Series

Mads Mikkelsen

Danish actor-star with a lot of genius and a certain amount of madness

He was the charismatic James Bond antagonist Le Chiffre, acting with style and cruel nobility, casually dabbing bleeding tears from his face. He was also to be admired in other Hollywood films, not infrequently as an elegantly sadistic villain: after Hannibal (in the series of the same name), he will soon slip into the role of Gellert Grindelwald in the cinema series "Fantastic Animal Worlds". And yet Mads Mikkelsen has always remained first and foremost a European film star. In 2011, he was honoured at the European Film Awards as "European Contribution to World Cinema" for playing characters "who attract us and at the same time teach us to fear". Mikkelsen is still an actor in Denmark, where he was born in 1965 (in Copenhagen). With directors like Thomas Vinterberg, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ole Christian Madsen, he has a long and intensive collaboration, in roles with an immense spectrum of expressive possibilities, dark and threatening, doubtful and desperate, but also cheerful and unpredictably weird, as in Madsen's "Men & Chicken". A genius with a certain amount of "madness".

He was the charismatic James Bond antagonist Le Chiffre, acting with style and cruel nobility, casually dabbing bleeding tears from his face. He was also to be admired in other Hollywood films, not infrequently as an elegantly sadistic villain: after Hannibal (in the series of the same name), he will soon slip into the role of Gellert Grindelwald in the cinema series "Fantastic Animal Worlds". And yet Mads Mikkelsen has always remained first and foremost a European film star. In 2011, he was honoured at the European Film Awards as "European Contribution to World Cinema" for playing characters "who attract us and at the same time teach us to fear". Mikkelsen is still an actor in Denmark, where he was born in 1965 (in Copenhagen). With directors like Thomas Vinterberg, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ole Christian Madsen, he has a long and intensive collaboration, in roles with an immense spectrum of expressive possibilities, dark and threatening, doubtful and desperate, but also cheerful and unpredictably weird, as in Madsen's "Men & Chicken". A genius with a certain amount of "madness".

He was the charismatic James Bond antagonist Le Chiffre, acting with style and cruel nobility, casually dabbing bleeding tears from his face. He was also to be admired in other Hollywood films, not infrequently as an elegantly sadistic villain: after Hannibal (in the series of the same name), he will soon slip into the role of Gellert Grindelwald in the cinema series "Fantastic Animal Worlds". And yet Mads Mikkelsen has always remained first and foremost a European film star. In 2011, he was honoured at the European Film Awards as "European Contribution to World Cinema" for playing characters "who attract us and at the same time teach us to fear". Mikkelsen is still an actor in Denmark, where he was born in 1965 (in Copenhagen). With directors like Thomas Vinterberg, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ole Christian Madsen, he has a long and intensive collaboration, in roles with an immense spectrum of expressive possibilities, dark and threatening, doubtful and desperate, but also cheerful and unpredictably weird, as in Madsen's "Men & Chicken". A genius with a certain amount of "madness".