Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016). Ulrich Thomsen was born in (Næsby) Odense, Denmark and graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which he performed in several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater. His film debut was in 1994 in Nightwatch, directed by Ole Bornedal. Since then, he has starred in several roles, including, among others, Thomas Vinterberg's The Biggest Heroes (1996), Susanne Bier's Sekten (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights (2000). The breakthrough in his career came in the 1998 film, Followed by an essential role in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999) portraying the part of henchman Sasha Davidov. This established Thomsen as an international actor, famous outside his native Denmark. He played a part in the 2002 English film Killing Me Softly. In 2009, he played Jonas Skarssen, the lead villain in Tom Tykwer's The International. From 2013 to 2016, he starred as a series regular in Banshee, playing the primary antagonist, Kai Proctor. Aside from his native language, Danish, Thomsen is fluent in German and English. He is vegan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Thomsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Odense, Denmark, 1963-12-06

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Slaget på tasken	Slipse-Peter	80
2	1994	Nightwatch	Red 1	69
3	1996	Café Hector	Christian	67
4	1996	Portland	Lasse	47
5	1996	The Biggest Heroes	Peter	61
6	1997	A Regular Thing	Holger	35
7	1997	Royal Blues	Christian	60
8	1997	Credo	Svane	47
9	1998	Election Night	Peter	70
10	1998	Baby Doom	Magnus	57
11	1998	The Celebration	Christian	77
12	1998	Angel of the Night	Alex	39
13	1999	The World Is Not Enough	Davidov	63
14	2000	Solen er så rød	Sælger	50
15	2000	Flickering Lights	Peter	72
16	2001	The Weight of Water	John Hontvedt	55
17	2001	Mike Bassett: England Manager	Dr. Hans Shoegaarten	71
18	2001	The Zookeeper	Dragov	65
19	2002	P.O.V. - Point of View	Henrik	42
20	2002	Killing Me Softly	Klaus	55
21	2002	Max	Captain Mayr	61
22	2003	The Inheritance	Christoffer	65
23	2003	Baby	Marc	100
24	2003	Ins Leben zurück	Eric Lundgren	0
25	2003	Blueprint	Dr. Martin Fisher	43
26	2004	The Rocket Post	Gerhard Zucher	56
27	2004	Brothers	Michael	67
28	2004	Sergeant Pepper	Johnny Sínger	73
29	2005	Adam's Apples	Adam	75
30	2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Templar Master	70
31	2005	Allegro	Zetterstrom	67
32	2005	The Celebration in Retrospect	self	0
33	2006	Clash of Egos	Tonny	56
34	2007	The Substitute	Jesper	56
35	2007	Opium: Diary of a Madwoman	Dr. Brenner	55
36	2007	Impossibly Yours	Jan	39
37	2007	Hitman	Mikhail Belicoff	61
38	2008	The Broken	Dr Robert Zachman	54
39	2008	Fear Me Not	Mikael	51
40	2009	Lulu and Jimi	Harry Hass	57
41	2009	The International	Jonas Skarssen	62
42	2009	Duplicity	Big Swiss Suit	59
43	2009	Tell-Tale	Lethe	54
44	2010	Centurion	Gorlacon	62
45	2010	The Silence	Peer Sommer	66
46	2010	In a Better World	Claus	71
47	2011	Season of the Witch	Eckhardt	55
48	2011	The Thing	Dr. Sander Halvorson	62
49	2012	Aya	Mr. Overby	65
50	2013	In der Überzahl	Stig Sørensen	60
51	2013	The Notebook	Offizier	66
52	2013	The Miracle	Jakob	47
53	2014	A Second Chance	Simon	66
54	2015	Mortdecai	Romanov	55
55	2015	Summer of '92	Richard Møller Nielsen	65
56	2016	The Commune	Erik	65
57		Apparat		0
58	2015	Shadow of a Hero	Gustaf (voice)	0
59	2016	In Embryo	Peter	57
60	2017	Small Town Killers	Edward	57
61	2017	Darling	Kristian	54
62	2018	In Love & War	Müller	49
63	2019	1989: A Spy Story	Jeremy Redman	66
64	2019	The Space Between the Lines	Bernhard	64
65	2019	Gooseboy	Knud Heinesen	56
66	2020	The Good Traitor	Henrik Kauffmann	58
67	2020	The Idiots Who Started The Party	Himself	60
68	2020	Mother at War	Feldwebel Meier	77
69	2021	The Marco Effect	Carl Mørck	58
70	2022	Take My Hand	Claes	67
71	2022	A Violent Man	Warden Goodwillie	67
72	2023	Before It Ends	Lauritz	71
73	2023	Ripple		62
74	2024	Stockholm Bloodbath	Hemming Gadh	60
75	2024	Boundless	Carl Mørck	59

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1996	Charlot og Charlotte	Læge 1	0
2	1996	Bryggeren	Gartner Jørgensen	37
3	1999	Dybt vand	Flygge	80
4	2006	The Virgin Queen	Baron	62
5	2007	The Company	Starik Zhilov	71
6	2008	Fringe	Man in Zeppelin, aka Mr X	81
7	2009	The Left Wing Gang	Jørn Moos	80
8	2010	ZULU Comedy Galla	Ulrich Thomsen	0
9	2011	Those Who Kill	Martin Høeg	70
10	2013	Banshee	Kai Proctor	80
11	2013	Banshee: Origins	Kai Proctor	82
12	2013	The Blacklist	Alexander Kirk	76
13	2015	Ditte & Louise	Sig selv	72
14	2017	Counterpart	Aldrich	74
15	2019	Face to Face	Bjørn Rasmussen	59
16	2020	The New Pope	Doctor Lindegard	76
17	2022	Trom	Hannios Martinsson	63
18	2022	Shining Girls	Britta's Husband	77
19	2022	All Exclusive	Self	100
20	2023	Agent	Ulrich Thomsen	78
21	2024	Grundtvig	Grundtvig	100
22		Lanterns	Sinestro	0