Ulrich Thomsen
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.
102 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 102
The Blacklist
2013
Fringe
2008
Banshee
2013
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
Counterpart
2017
Alias
2001
Banshee: Origins
2013
The New Pope
2020
Hitman
2007
The Thing
2011
Shining Girls
2022
The World Is Not Enough
1999
Face to Face
2019
The Company
2007
ZULU Comedy Galla
2010
Mortdecai
2015
The Virgin Queen
2006
Centurion
2010
Season of the Witch
2011
The Celebration
1998
Ditte & Louise
2015
Those Who Kill
2011
Bryggeren
1996
Agent
2023
The International
2009
Killing Me Softly
2002
The Substitute
2007
Duplicity
2009
Charlot og Charlotte
1996
Adam's Apples
2005
Boundless
2024
Trom
2022
Nightwatch
1994
Flickering Lights
2000
Take My Hand
2022
The Marco Effect
2021
Run
2025
All Exclusive
2022
In a Better World
2010
Stockholm Bloodbath
2024
The Weight of Water
2001
The Left Wing Gang
2009
The Silence
2010
Grundtvig
2024
A Second Chance
2014
Max
2002
Small Town Killers
2017
The Commune
2016
Dybt vand
1999
The Good Traitor
2020
Tell-Tale
2009
Mother at War
2020
The Inheritance
2003
Brothers
2004
The Broken
2008
Mostly Martha
2001
The Notebook
2013
The Riders
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Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001
A Violent Man
2022
Portland
1996
1989: A Spy Story
2019
Blueprint
2003
Election Night
1998
Before It Ends
2023
Summer of '92
2015
The Idiots Who Started The Party
2020
Angel of the Night
1998
In Love & War
2018
The Space Between the Lines
2019
The Zookeeper
2001
Fear Me Not
2008
Credo
1997
Aya
2012
Allegro
2005
Darling
2017
The Biggest Heroes
1996
Dead Language
2025
Lulu and Jimi
2009
Baby
2003
Clash of Egos
2006
Sergeant Pepper
2004
The Rocket Post
2004
Royal Blues
1997
In Embryo
2016
Baby Doom
1998
Apparat
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Café Hector
1996
Hit the Bag
1993
Impossibly Yours
2007
In der Überzahl
2013
Ripple
2023
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman
2007
The Celebration in Retrospect
2005
Gooseboy
2019
P.O.V. - Point of View
2002
Ins Leben zurück
2003
A Regular Thing
1997
Shadow of a Hero
2015
Solen er så rød
2000
Masculine Misunderstandings
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The Miracle
2013
