Age: 62
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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.
Ulrich Thomsen
Bjarne Møller
for Bjarne Møller in The Devil’s Star
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
Oslo is sweating through a brutal summer when the first body turns up. A young woman lies in her apartment, staged with quiet precision. In her mouth, a small red five-pointed star. Not jewelry. Not a symbol of love. A signature. Detective Harry Hole returns to a department that barely trusts him. The case is high-profile, the city is on edge, and the pressure is political. Harry gets a new partner, a polished investigator from Security Police with perfect manners and unreadable motives. Together they follow a trail of victims who seem unrelated. Different neighborhoods. Different lives. One common detail. The star. Then the killings escalate. Each scene feels like a performance designed for an audience of one. Harry senses the murderer is not chasing attention. He’s testing the police. He’s testing Harry. And he’s hiding behind rules that only he understands. As Harry pushes into Oslo’s night world, the heat turns the city into a pressure cooker. Leads rot fast. Witnesses lie. Evidence points in two directions at once. Harry starts to suspect the worst. The killer is inside the investigation’s blind spot. When a private tragedy hits close to home, Harry breaks protocol and runs the case on instinct. He digs into old files, old grudges, and a pattern nobody wanted reopened. The more he learns, the clearer the trap becomes. Someone is manufacturing trust. Someone is writing the next crime scene in advance. And the final star is meant for Harry.
