Ulrich Thomsen Biography

Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor and filmmaker born on 6 December 1963 in Odense, Denmark. He is best known for appearing in 1998’s Festen and 1999’s The World Is Not Enough as well as the TV series Banshee. Thomsen has also performed in several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr. Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater.

He graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993 and made his feature debut in 1994 starring in Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch. His major breakthrough came in the 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) by Thomas Vinterberg. Another film that made him well known was acting a bad guy role in the James Bond film ‘The World Is Not Enough’ (1999) portraying the part of henchman Sasha Davidov.

He has also starred in a number of other roles including, Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘The Biggest Heroes’ (1996), Susanne Bier’s ‘Sekten’ (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘Flickering Lights’ (2000). He also took part in the English film ‘Killing Me Softly’ (2002). He starred as a series regular in Banshee playing the role of primary antagonist, Kai Proctor.

His international feature films include the box office smash Bond: The World is Not Enough, Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘The Weight of Water’, Menno Meyjes’ Max, Chen Kaige’s ‘Killing Me Softly’, Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ and Tom Tykwer’s ‘The International’.

He is also featured in other international films including; The Rocket Post, The Zookeeper, Blue Print, Mostly Martha, Opium, Hitman, Duplicity, Tell Tale, Centurion, Season of the Witch, The Thing and The Silence.

Thomsen has also starred on television series such as Alias, in the BBC miniseries, The Virgin Queen and in the TNT Miniseries The Company, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Mikael Salomon.

Ulrich Thomsen Age

Thomsen was born on 6 December 1963 in Denmark. He is 54 years old as of 2017.

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Ulrich Thomsen Wife

He is married to Cathrine Ekehed and together they have two children.

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Ulrich Thomsen Kingdom Of Heaven

Still in grief over his wife’s sudden death, village blacksmith Balian (Orlando Bloom) joins his long-estranged father, Baron Godfrey (Liam Neeson), as a crusader on the road to Jerusalem. After a perilous journey to the holy city, the valiant young man enters the retinue of the leprous King Baldwin IV (Edward Norton), which is rife with dissent led by the treacherous Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas), who wishes to wage war against the Muslims for his own political and personal gain.

Initial release: 2 May 2005 (London)
Director: Ridley Scott
Box office: 211.7 million USD
Budget: 135 million USD
Awards: Satellite Award for Best Original Score, European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor

Ulrich Thomsen Banshee

A recently paroled master thief assumes the identity of Sheriff Lucas Hood in Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner in crime relocated years ago and reinvented herself as Carrie Hopewell, the wife of the town’s prosecutor. As Lucas attempts to reunite with Carrie and keep his past a secret, he resumes his life of crime, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier, including a mob boss who seeks revenge against Lucas and Carrie for the jewel heist that landed Lucas in prison.

First episode date: 11 January 2013
Final episode date: 20 May 2016
Network: Cinemax
Director: Greg Yaitanes

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ARD is shooting new spy thriller

For the anniversary of the Berlin Wall

In the thriller, a double agent from the GDR falls in love with her CIA boss (Ulrich Thomsen). By 2019, the shooting will extend across Berlin.

Adopted from: tagesspiegel.de
Published: 13 November 2018

Funny warning sign for a hospital: “Stop! Do you feel sick? If you are ill today, please do not enter the embassy area. “But the rather run-down building complex at Fabeckstrasse 62 in Lichterfelde has long been no longer in the care of the health care system, since 1994 no more than the Americans have their hospital and their entire military presence in Berlin tasks.

So it has to be some kind of movie prop, as well as the foyer, the old device for scanning visitor bags, with the sign on the conveyor belt, as well as the cleanly stacked concrete cuboids, which turn out to be light polystyrene poles, or the turnstiles of Perey, New York.

Welcome to the past: In the empty buildings, in a few years – in Berlin an elastic concept – the future will be housed in the form of the technology and start-up center Fubic, a kind of counterpart to Adlershof with spin-offs of the FU. At the moment, however, “Wendezeit” is being played here – the working title of a spy thriller, which is to be broadcast in the fall of 2019 as an ARD event film on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In many corners of Berlin, the team has filmed director Sven Bohse, in the Karl-Marx-Allee, in the former Stasi headquarters, in the residential area of ​​the Westend – where there was also a building that goes smoothly in the movie as DDR-Plattenbau – , in the “Berliner Straße” of the Babelsberg studios and now here in the former US military hospital in Steglitz.

Between two identities
The West Berlin CIA resident has been built here, which in reality was housed in the US headquarters in the Zehlendorfer Clayallee – one of the central venues of the story agent, workplace of the main character Saskia, presented by Petra Schmidt-Schaller. A young woman with secret Eastern biography, spy in the service of socialism, sent by agent Markus Wolf personally in the track and landed perfectly in the class enemy.

Stupid only that she actually loves the American she married to optimize her legend and her two children anyway. The conditions in the GDR have made them but also thoughtful, somehow they can keep their two sides still in balance, as it suddenly comes to an end with the GDR and the beautiful double life threatens to fly up.

Among the spies are double agent Saskia (Petra Schmidt-Schaller) and her CIA chief (Ulrich Thomsen).