Age: 55
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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.
This character-driven miniseries chronicles the rise of one of the saga's most formidable figures: Kitiara uth Matar. We follow her from her early days as a cunning mercenary alongside her half-brother Tanis to her complicated romance with the honorable Sturm Brightblade. Her insatiable ambition leads her away from her companions and into the heart of the burgeoning Dragonarmies. The series is a dark political and military thriller, showing her seduction by the promise of power from the Dark Queen Takhisis and her ruthless, bloody climb to the rank of Dragon Highlord. It explores what she sacrificed for power and why she became the brilliant, charismatic, and terrifying antagonist of the War of the Lance.
