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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

My Fathers' Daughter
2025
as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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
2023
as Martin
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
2023
as Bob Hightower
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
2023
as Pizza Guy
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
2023
Thanks
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
2023
as Traveller Underwater (archived footage)
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
2022
as Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

Against the Ice
2022
Producer, Screenplay
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
2021
as Carsten
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
2021
Executive Producer
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
2020
as Rayburn Swanson
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
2020
as Rico
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.

Exit Plan
2019
as Max Isaksen
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
2019
as Christian Toft
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
2019
as Self
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
2017
as Jaime Lannister (voice)
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
2017
as Jacob 'Money' Harlon
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
2017
as Kenneth
Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.

3 Things
2017
as Mikael
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
2017
Executive Producer
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
2017
as Joe Denton
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
2016
as Horus
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Klown Forever
2015
as Nikolaj
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
2015
as Jaime Lannister
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
2014
as Andreas
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
2014
as Mark King
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
2013
as Marcus
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
2013
as Sykes
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
2013
as Lucas Desange
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
2011
as Clas Greve
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Blackthorn
2011
as Young James
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
2009
as Severin Geertsen
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
2009
as Commander Frank Pike
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
2008
as Thomas
An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death.

The Kautokeino Rebellion
2008
as Biskop Juell
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2007
as Sammy
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
2007
as Micke
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
This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the liv...

The Baker
2007
as Bjorn
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
2006
as Martin
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
2006
as Liam
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
2005
as Martin
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
2005
as Village Sheriff
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
2004
as Miklos
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
2004
as Dieter Prohl
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
2004
as Sune
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
2003
as Svend
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
2003
as Kenneth
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
2002
as Anton
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
2001
as MSG Gary Gordon
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
2001
as Puck
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
2000
as Holt
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
1999
as Espen Arnakke
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
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
1998
as Frankie
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
1998
as Ossy
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
1998
Writer
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
1997
as Wolf
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
1994
as Martin
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
1993
as Christian
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
1991
A short film about the art of killing.

Virtue
N/A
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
N/A
Producer
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...