Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

1970-07-27 Rudkobing, Denmark 63 Credits

Biography

Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and...

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My Fathers' Daughter

My Fathers' Daughter

2025

as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Acting

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams abou...

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

2023

as Martin

6.3
Acting

Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cel...

God Is a Bullet

God Is a Bullet

2023

as Bob Hightower

6.1
Acting

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits ...

The Flash

The Flash

2023

as Pizza Guy

6.6
Acting

When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...

The Flash

The Flash

2023

Thanks

6.6

When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

2023

as Traveller Underwater (archived footage)

Acting

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and histori...

Against the Ice

Against the Ice

2022

as Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen

6.8
Acting

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

Against the Ice

Against the Ice

2022

Producer, Screenplay

6.8
Producing Writing

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

A Taste of Hunger

A Taste of Hunger

2021

as Carsten

6.0
Acting

Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it a...

Flee

Flee

2021

Executive Producer

7.8
Producing

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a se...

The Silencing

The Silencing

2020

as Rayburn Swanson

6.4
Acting

A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidn...

The Day We Died

The Day We Died

2020

as Rico

5.5
Acting

Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.

Exit Plan

Exit Plan

2019

as Max Isaksen

6.1
Acting

Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of ...

Domino

Domino

2019

as Christian Toft

4.6
Acting

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

2019

as Self

7.1
Acting

For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the...

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

2017

as Jaime Lannister (voice)

7.7
Acting

HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in the thousands of years before Game of Thrones' stor...

Shot Caller

Shot Caller

2017

as Jacob 'Money' Harlon

7.0
Acting

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern...

Chicken/Egg

Chicken/Egg

2017

as Kenneth

9.5
Acting

Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.

3 Things

3 Things

2017

as Mikael

6.5
Acting

Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbe...

3 Things

3 Things

2017

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbe...

Small Crimes

Small Crimes

2017

as Joe Denton

5.4
Acting

A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes...

Gods of Egypt

Gods of Egypt

2016

as Horus

5.7
Acting

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Klown Forever

Klown Forever

2015

as Nikolaj

5.9
Acting

Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his bes...

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

2015

as Jaime Lannister

8.6
Acting

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...

A Second Chance

A Second Chance

2014

as Andreas

6.6
Acting

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 Other Woman

The Other Woman

2014

as Mark King

6.4
Acting

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three wome...

A Thousand Times Good Night

A Thousand Times Good Night

2013

as Marcus

6.9
Acting

On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home...

Oblivion

Oblivion

2013

as Sykes

6.7
Acting

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war wit...

Mama

Mama

2013

as Lucas Desange

6.3
Acting

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that...

Headhunters

Headhunters

2011

as Clas Greve

7.2
Acting

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Blackthorn

Blackthorn

2011

as Young James

6.6
Acting

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...

At World's End

At World's End

2009

as Severin Geertsen

5.4
Acting

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...

Virtuality

Virtuality

2009

as Commander Frank Pike

5.1
Acting

Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In o...

Himmerland

Himmerland

2008

as Thomas

4.5
Acting

An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

The Kautokeino Rebellion

2008

as Biskop Juell

6.0
Acting

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

2007

as Sammy

4.5
Acting

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s,...

Wonderful and Loved by All

Wonderful and Loved by All

2007

as Micke

5.7
Acting

Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order t...

Filthy Gorgeous

2007

as Alex

1.5
Acting

This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the liv...

The Baker

The Baker

2007

as Bjorn

6.4
Acting

Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of hi...

Triple Dare

Triple Dare

2006

as Martin

4.8
Acting

Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they d...

Firewall

Firewall

2006

as Liam

5.8
Acting

State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a ...

Shadow of the Sword

Shadow of the Sword

2005

as Martin

5.9
Acting

Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them str...

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

2005

as Village Sheriff

7.0
Acting

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure

My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure

2004

as Miklos

4.2
Acting

Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's ...

Wimbledon

Wimbledon

2004

as Dieter Prohl

6.2
Acting

Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...

The Good Cop

The Good Cop

2004

as Sune

6.4
Acting

A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a ha...

The Bouncer

The Bouncer

2003

as Svend

4.5
Acting

Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbea...

Stealing Rembrandt

Stealing Rembrandt

2003

as Kenneth

5.9
Acting

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...

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

2002

as Anton

5.4
Acting

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year...

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

2001

as MSG Gary Gordon

7.4
Acting

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and ...

Enigma

Enigma

2001

as Puck

6.4
Acting

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Foreign Fields

Foreign Fields

2000

as Holt

6.7
Acting

Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villag...

Misery Harbour

Misery Harbour

1999

as Espen Arnakke

5.0
Acting

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but ...

Antenneforeningen

1999

as Rocker

6.0
Acting

One evening, the cable TV connection disappears in an apartment building. The residents are told that they can no longer watch cable TV. This leads to...

Angel of the Night

Angel of the Night

1998

as Frankie

3.9
Acting

Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they...

Wildside

Wildside

1998

as Ossy

6.1
Acting

Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, wil...

Wildside

Wildside

1998

Writer

6.1
Writing

Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, wil...

Bent

Bent

1997

as Wolf

6.8
Acting

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentrati...

Nightwatch

Nightwatch

1994

as Martin

6.9
Acting

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to fin...

Slaget på tasken

Slaget på tasken

1993

as Christian

8.0
Acting

A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and tak...

Requiem

Requiem

1991

Acting

A short film about the art of killing.

Virtue

Virtue

N/A

Acting

1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to r...

Virtue

Virtue

N/A

Producer

Producing

1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to r...