"Nikolaj Coster-Waldau"

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Danish pronunciation: [ˈneɡolaɪ̯ kʌsdɐ ˈʋaldɑʊ̯]; born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor, producer, and screenwriter. He attended Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen in 1993. In the United States, he played Detective John Amsterdam on the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam, as well as appearing as Frank Pike in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. Since April 2011, he became known to a broad audience by playing the role of Jaime Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Coster-Waldau was born in Rudkøbing, Denmark, the son of Jørgen Waldau and Hanne Søborg Coster, a librarian, and grew up in Tybjerg.

Coster-Waldau was educated at the National Theater School in Denmark from 1989 to 1993. He made his stage debut as Laertes in Hamlet at the Betty Nansen Theater. His role in the movie Nightwatch (1994) brought him fame in his native country. He later transitioned to United States film and television.

In 2001, he began his U.S. career in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down as Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. Coster-Waldau says "My first U.S. movie was Black Hawk Down and a friend helped me put myself on tape up on the attic over my apartment in Copenhagen. We shipped it out and I got lucky."

He next landed a lead role in Michael Apted's Enigma. Scott brought Coster-Waldau back for his 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven. Richard Loncraine, who cast the actor in Wimbledon in 2004, cast him in Firewall two years later, in 2006. He later played John Amsterdam, an immortal New York homicide detective who will become mortal after he finds his true love, in the short-lived Fox TV drama series New Amsterdam.

Since April 2011, Coster-Waldau has played Jaime Lannister on HBO's hit series Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. He commented about the character: "What's not to like about Jaime? As an actor I couldn't ask for a better role". BuddyTV ranked him #85 on its list of "TV's Sexiest Men of 2011".

Coster-Waldau starred in the 2013 horror film Mama alongside Jessica Chastain. He went on to play Sykes, a military weapons expert in the science fiction action thriller film Oblivion.

He lives near Copenhagen with his wife, Nukaka, a Greenlandic actress and singer, and their two children. He has two older sisters, and was raised mainly by his mother. His father-in-law is Josef Motzfeldt, a member of the Parliament of Greenland and former leader of the Inuit Community party.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Nightwatch	Martin Bork
1997	Bent	Wolf
1997	Hemmeligheder	Mads
1998	Vildspor	Ossy	Also writer
1998	Nattens engel	Frankie
1999	Antenneforeningen	Rocker
1999	Misery Harbour	Espen Arnakke
2000	På fremmed mark	Holt
2001	Enigma	Puck
2001	Black Hawk Down	Gary Gordon
2002	24 heures de la vie d'une femme	Anton
2003	Stealing Rembrandt	Kenneth
2003	Manden bag døren	Svend
2004	My Name Is Modesty	Miklos
2004	Wimbledon	Dieter Prohl
2004	Den gode strømer	Sune
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Village Sheriff
2005	The Headsman	Martin
2006	Firewall	Liam
2006	Supervoksen	Martin
2007	The Baker	Bjorn
2007	Underbar och älskad av alla	Micke
2007	De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1	Sammy
2008	The Kautokeino Rebellion	Biskop Juell
2008	Himmerland	Thomas
2009	Ved verdens ende	Severin Geertsen
2011	Blackthorn	James Jovin
2011	Headhunters	Clas Greve	Also executive producer
2012	Aurum		Executive producer
2013	Mama	Lucas / Jeffrey Desange
2013	Oblivion	Sykes
2013	A Thousand Times Good Night	Marcus
2014	The Other Woman	Mark
2016	Gods of Egypt	Horus	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Slaget på tasken	Christian	TV movie
1997	Jacobs liste	Jacob	TV movie
2000	Lock, Stock...	Jordi	2 episodes
2006	Filthy Gorgeous	Alex	TV movie
2008	New Amsterdam	John Amsterdam	8 episodes
2009	Virtuality	Commander Frank Pike	TV movie
2009–2010	Blekingegade	Jan Weimann	5 episodes
2011–present	Game of Thrones	Jaime Lannister	22 episodes Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series(2013) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film(2014) Nominated—Scream Award for Best Ensemble (2011) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2011)

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/