Age: 55
male
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and Scandinavia, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S, his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Nameless Hero
for Nameless Hero in Gothic
Suggested by jonasedelhoff
The Kingdom of Myrtana, reunited by King Rhobar II: During the long years of his reign he was able to defeat all foes of the realm. All, except one: The war against the Orcs took its toll and the prisoners of the realm were to pay the price: The King needed swords for his army and every men guilty of a crime, no matter how insignificant was forced to work in the ore mines of Khorinis. To make it impossible to escape the King sent out the best magicians of the Kingdom to create a magic barrier around the entire valley, I was one of them. Something disturbed the delicate structure of magic: We were trapped inside our own barrier. One second of negleciance was enough for the prisoners. Khorinis was now under the control of the convicts. The King had no choice. He had to negotiate, he needed the ore. Month after month the King supplied everything the prisoners needed, month after month they brought the ore to the edge of the barrier in exchange until the present day: Another convict was brought to the Cliff...
