Mads Mikkelsen is a Danish film actor with a diverse and great filmography. Most famous for playing villains in the films "Casino Royale", "Hannibal", "Doctor Strange".
Mads Mikkelsen Biography
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen was born in the most prestigious area of the capital of Denmark - Osterbro on November 22, 1965. Despite the fact that his father and older brother were actors, the younger Mikkelsen was seriously interested in dancing and was engaged in ballet for 8 years. Mads left Copenhagen at the age of 16 and moved to Sweden to receive a choreographic education at the Gothenburg Ballet Academy.
Having completed his career as a dancer at the age of 27, Mads became interested in acting. After graduating from the Aarhus Theater School "Arhus Theater School" Mikkelsen got a big role in the Danish crime drama "Dealer" (1996). The debut was successful, but for some time Mads appeared only in episodes. The career took off after Mikkelsen performed one of the main roles in the film "Flickering Lights" in 2000. In the same year, Mads fell into the castes of the popular police series "The First Division". Glossy magazines give him the title of the sexiest man in Denmark, photographs of Mads adorn the covers of many European publications.
Soon Mikkelsen notices and invites Hollywood. First, it was Tristan in the historical action movie King Arthur (2004), and then the criminal banker Le Schiffre in 21 parts of the famous Bond - Casino Royale (2006). A box office of 600 million dollars provided the Danish actor with a strong position in the list of world movie stars. The role in the international film "After the Wedding", where the actor was able to reveal all the facets of his dramatic talent, helped get rid of the role of the villain Mikkelsen. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 as the best film in a foreign language. At the Cannes Film Festival, Mads Mikelsen received a personal award (Silver Palm Branch for Best Actor) for his role as a kindergarten teacher unfairly accused of pedophilia in the social drama Hunt (2013).
In 2012, Mikkelsen signed a long-term contract for the shooting of the series and was forced to move to Canada. A television thriller based on the Oscar-winning films “Silence of the Lambs” and “Red Dragon” presented the audience with a new doctor Lecturer. Hannibal performed by Mads Mikkelsen - the Scandinavian cold, sophisticated cannibal intellectual conquered the critics and television audience. For three seasons, the series was at the top of the ratings, but in 2015, the NBC channel stopped shooting
Mikkelsen celebrated 2016 with two fantastic projects. The evil sorcerer Ketsili from the film "Doctor Strange" added to the fans of the actor and the army of fans of the film universe "Marvel". Fans of the Star Wars franchise praise Mikkelsen’s play in the spin-off Rogue One. Star Wars Tales
