Biography
Nikolaj Lie Kaas (born 22 May 1973) is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is the son of actor Preben Kaas and actor and writer Anne Mari Lie and father of two.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Frankenstein
2025
as Chief Officer Larsen
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoi...

The Last Viking
2025
as Anker
Anker is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence for robbery. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the money from the...

Way Home
2024
as Christian
How far are you willing to go to save the people you love? This is the question Christian is forced to answer when he is smuggled into Syria in a desp...

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Filip Naver
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

Fathers and Mothers
2022
as Tommy
Follows Piv and Ulrik, who are trying to become part of the parent group in their daughter's new school class, going to great lengths to be admitted.

Riders of Justice
2020
as Otto
Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims ...

Collision
2019
as Leo
'Collision' centres on a married couple, Leo and Olivia. As they are facing a crisis in their marriage, their nine-year-old daughter, Liv, becomes a m...

The Purity of Vengeance
2018
as Carl Mørck
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institut...

Zulu Comedy Galla 2017
2017
as Vært

You Disappear
2017
as Frederik Halling
Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is...

A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
as Carl Mørck
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department ...

The Last King
2016
as Orm
Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages t...

Child 44
2015
as Ivan Sukov
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the...

Men & Chicken
2015
as Gregor
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves an...

The Absent One
2014
as Carl Mørck
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a loca...

A Second Chance
2014
as Tristan
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, rece...

The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013
as Carl Mørck
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the di...

Mad Ship
2013
as Tomas
A poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way ...

The Shooter
2013
as Thomas Borby
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist ...

Almost Perfect
2012
as Gordon Dennis
Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymo...

Beast
2011
as Valdemar
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is noth...

Zulu Comedy Galla 2011
2011
as Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Zulu Comedy Galla is a Danish Comedy Award show shown on TV2 Zulu once a year. At the show the Comedian of the year and "Läkerols Talentpris" are awar...

A Funny Man
2011
as Dirch Passer
Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found...

The Fir Tree
2011
as Grantræet (voice)
The story of a Christmas tree is told through the 'voice' of the tree itself. The tree has big ambitions, doing everything it can to grow so tall that...

Freddy Frogface
2011
as Orla Frøsnapper / Tryllekunster / Klovn
Based on a classic Danish children's book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard. Being small doesn't make life easy for little ten-year-old Victor and his friends, w...

The Whistleblower
2010
as Jan Van Der Velde
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to ...

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
2010
as Kniven
Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic b...

Therapy
2010
as Anders
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basem...

At World's End
2009
as Adrian
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recl...

Zulu Comedy Galla 2009
2009
as Host

Angels & Demons
2009
as Assassin
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

The Candidate
2008
as Jonas Bechmann
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throw...

Just Another Love Story
2007
as Sebastian
Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on i...

Pu-239
2006
as Tusk
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and se...

Clash of Egos
2006
as Claus Volter
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with h...
Tilbageblik på Idioterne
2005
as Self - actor

Murk
2005
as Jacob
The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding ...

Adam's Apples
2005
as Holger
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

The Sun King
2005
as Tommy
While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love af...

Brothers
2004
as Jannik
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission th...

Dogville: The Pilot
2003
as Tom
Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-...
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
2003
as Self

Dogville
2003
Thanks
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...

Stealing Rembrandt
2003
as Kiosk Karsten
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rem...

Reconstruction
2003
as Alex
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for...

The Green Butchers
2003
as Bjarne / Eigil
A black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon in...

Open Hearts
2002
as Joachim
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the ot...

Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
2002
as Martin
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell....

Jolly Roger
2001
as Ærkeenglen Theobalt
The future is stolen by Captain Bill the Black. It is up to the infamous pirate Jolly Roger and his great-great-great grandchild Lula to save it, help...
Wag the Dogma
2001
Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film systematicall...

Truly Human
2001
as P
P. is a little girl's imaginary friend who lives inside the wall of her room. But one day he magically materialises and so must learn to live in the w...

Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
2001

Flickering Lights
2000
as Stefan
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to...

Max
2000
as Spacy
Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband...

In China They Eat Dogs
1999
as Martin
Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bra...

Possessed
1999
as Morten
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.

The Humiliated
1998
as Self / Jeppe
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".

The Idiots
1998
as Jeppe
A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing...

Davids bog
1996
as Jacob
Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance he finds a book that giv...

Carl, My Childhood Symphony
1994
as Carl 3
Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoveri...

The Boys from St. Petri
1991
as Otto Hvidmann
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.