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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.
In Bangkok, the Norwegian ambassador is found dead in a seedy hotel room. The official story needs to stay clean. The truth will not. Detective Harry Hole is sent in to shut the case fast and keep it quiet. No headlines. No scandal. No loose ends. But the city does not cooperate. Heat presses in. Neon hides decay. Everyone smiles while they measure your price. Harry follows the trail from embassy corridors to backstreet bars, from polite handshakes to paid silence. Each answer opens a deeper problem. A web of corruption, secrets, and debts that reaches far past the victim. The killer is close. The motive is older than the crime. As pressure mounts from both governments and criminals, Harry realizes the case is not about one death. It is about what powerful people fear becoming public. In a city where truth gets buried fast, Harry has one job. Dig it up before it buries him.
