Nikolay Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor and star of the popular fantasy series Game of Thrones. In addition, the actor starred in full-length Hollywood blockbusters, and regularly appears in European, especially Scandinavian films and TV series.

Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was born on July 27, 1970 in the small Danish village of Rudkobing (not all Danes know about the existence of such). Soon his parents moved to Copenhagen, where they spent their childhood and the youth of the future actor.

As a teenager, Nikolai was engaged in athletics and achieved good results. According to him, the sport gave self-confidence, which he so lacked. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau secretly dreamed of acting career, but he was shy to talk aloud about his dream. At sports competitions he got used to spectators and cameras - tuned in to future performances on stage. In high school he began to prepare for admission to the Copenhagen Theatre School.

In 1989, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau became a student, and in 1993 received an acting degree. As a student, he played in the theater More than once Betty Nansen, was one of the leading actors of the troupe. After graduating from drama school I was going to continue my career in the theater, but the case intervened.

Danish producers saw the play Koster-Waldau in one of the performances and invited him to the casting of the picture "Night Watchman". No one promised anything to the novice actor, but he decided to go to the auditions. Intuition did not let him down - contrary to the rules existing in the film environment, the unknown actor was approved for the main role. Thriller "Nightwatchman" was filmed with a small budget: how were surprised director and producers when he collected a decent income at the box office.

Then there were the filming of the drama "The Inclination", which tells about how sexual minorities survived in German concentration camps. At the venue, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau met and became friends with Mick Jagger. This painting won the prize of the Festival de Cannes.

In 2001, the Danish actor was invited to shoot by the famous Hollywood director Ridley Scott. In his film "Black Hawk" Nicholas played Gary Gordon. Four years later, Ridley Scott offered the actor the role of sheriff in the film "Kingdom of Heaven." The role is small but memorable. From 2005 to 2010, Nikolai was active in Denmark and Hollywood. But critics rated only one of his roles - a 400-year-old detective in the TV series "Immortal."

The actor's next significant work was Game of Thrones, a serial adaptation of the fantasy blockbuster series of George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire," in which the actor played Knight Jaime Lannister. His hero - a tall blond (height of the actor 188 cm) with an attractive appearance, but at the same time endowed with unpleasant character traits and dark biography. This did not make Lannister the main villain, as the main feature of the popular book saga is the absence of absolutely positive characters.

At the beginning of the series, the greatest interaction of the character was with Cersei Lannister (Lina Headey), with whom Jaime had an uneasy relationship. This connection became the basis of the plot and the reason for the beginning of the struggle for the royal throne - the main storyline of "Game of Thrones." Also, the character has some dynamics with the warrior Brienne Of Tart (Gwendolyn Christie).

At first, the audience perceived the character skeptically, but with each season he appeared more and more fans. This was facilitated by the development of the character, which had a lot of trials, which turned a narcissistic knight living in the capital under the king, in exile. At the same time, fan love did not prevent even the fact that the plot character loses his arm and is forced to walk with a metal prosthesis.

For this role, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has repeatedly received awards from the Actors Guild.

In 2013, the audience saw three films with his participation: "1000 times good night," "Mom" and "Oblivion." "Oblivion," in which the actor played The Sykes Warrior, grossed $250 million at the box office.

In 2014, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in the Danish thriller Second Chance.

The beginning of 2016 was a productive for Koster-Waldau: the actor appeared in the sixth season of the project "Game of Thrones", and the actor played the god Gore in the film "Gods of Egypt". This picture was supposed to be a fantasy blockbuster, but failed and received negative criticism of both professionals and ordinary viewers. The film was criticized for excessive simplification of Egyptian mythology, an excess of special effects and castes, not corresponding to the geography of the film's artistic world.

The actor is a happy spouse and father of two children. He has been married since 1998 to Greenland actress and model Nokaka Metzefeldt and has been loyal to his wife for many years. They still remember the day of their acquaintance with precision to the minutes - it happened on March 17, 1997 at 9.30. Nicholas was sitting in the recording studio waiting for the girl to voice the role. The partner was late, which took the actor out of himself. But he forgot about the irritation as soon as the gorgeous blonde with brown eyes crossed the threshold of the studio.

He makes no secret of the need to fall in love at first sight. Nukaka and Nicholas were soon married. They had two daughters in marriage. The eldest decided to become an actress and has already starred in a short film. The youngest has not yet decided on the future profession.

After filming "Game of Thrones" Nikolaj Coster-Waldau spent a fee on the restoration of the ancestral mansion, built in the 19th century. Now their close-knit family and two dogs live in this cozy estate.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau maintains an Instagram account, where he posts everyday photos. More than a million subscribers have signed up to the actor's account.

In 2019, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau appeared in the final, eighth, season of Game of Thrones. With each new season, the character was revealed, which contributes to the addition of an army of fans of this seemingly negative hero.

The seventh season of the cult series does not contain known to fans storylines. The season is based on the original script, and the plot was based on the unreleased at the time of the release of the series book by George R.R. Martin "The Winds of Winter" and part of the only planned book "Dream of Spring." This fact attracted to the project and fans of the exclusively book series.

The eighth season is also based on the original scripted story and the final part of Dream of Spring.

In parallel with the work on "Game of Thrones" Koster-Waldau starred in other projects. In 2017, the actor starred in the dramatic thriller "Shot in the Void." Nicholas played the role of an honest entrepreneur who tries to live by the law, but once gets into a car accident, where his fault kills a man. The character gets a criminal term, and the film tells about the attempts of an ordinary law-abiding man to survive in the brutal conditions of prison.

Also in 2017, the actor appeared in the films "Three Conditions" and "Petty Crimes." In addition, there were rumors that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will play the main role of Geralt in the film adaptation of Andrzej Sapkovsky's series of books "The Witcher". However, later the role went to Henry Cavill.

2001 - "Black Hawk"

2002 - "24 Hours in a Woman's Life"

2004 - "Two wagons and four mafias"

2006 - "Fire Wall"

2006 - "Superadults"

2007 - "Rise in Kautokeino"

2008 - "Immortal"

2011 - Now - "Game of Thrones"

2011 - Bounty Hunters

2009 - "Virtuality"

2009-2010 - "Blackinge Street"

2013 - "Oblivion"

2014 - "Second Chance"

2016 - "Gods of Egypt"

2017 - "Shot into the Void"

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