
Acting
Community Rating
6.0
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Born
July 27, 1970 (age 55)
Born in
Rudkobing, Denmark
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.

World of Westeros Ambient Video
Jaime Lannister
2025

My Fathers' Daughter
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
2025

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Martin
2023

God Is a Bullet
Bob Hightower
2023

The Flash
Pizza Guy
2023

Against the Ice
Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen
2022

A Taste of Hunger
Carsten
2021

The Silencing
Rayburn Swanson
2020

The Day We Died
Rico
2020

Exit Plan
Max Isaksen
2019

Domino
Christian Toft
2019

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Self
2019

Gone Hollywood
Jack DeVoe
2019

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Jaime Lannister (voice)
2017

Shot Caller
Jacob 'Money' Harlon
2017

Chicken/Egg
Kenneth
2017

3 Things
Mikael
2017

Small Crimes
Joe Denton
2017

Gods of Egypt
Horus
2016

Klown Forever
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
2015