Ulrich Thomsen
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-12-06
Place of Birth
Odense, Denmark
Ulrich Thomsen
Biography
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.
Also Known For
The Celebration
Jun 19, 1998
Adam's Apples
Apr 15, 2005
Flickering Lights
Nov 03, 2000
Hitman
Nov 21, 2007
The Broken
Nov 15, 2008
Brothers
Aug 27, 2004
Boundless
Feb 01, 2024
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman
Mar 29, 2007
The International
Feb 03, 2009
Season of the Witch
Jan 07, 2011
Blueprint
Dec 08, 2003
Baby Doom
Mar 20, 1998
The Rocket Post
May 13, 2004
Centurion
Feb 15, 2010
Lulu and Jimi
Jan 22, 2009
The Substitute
Mar 13, 2007
Tell-Tale
Apr 24, 2009
Angel of the Night
Dec 04, 1998
Killing Me Softly
May 10, 2002
The Silence
Aug 13, 2010
The Thing
Oct 12, 2011
Clash of Egos
Aug 25, 2006
In a Better World
Aug 26, 2010
The Inheritance
Feb 21, 2003
Fear Me Not
Dec 19, 2008
Before It Ends
Sep 23, 2023
The Biggest Heroes
Nov 08, 1996
Allegro
Sep 30, 2005
Take My Hand
Jan 27, 2022
Election Night
Jan 01, 1998
Portland
Apr 19, 1996
Impossibly Yours
Apr 19, 2007
P.O.V. - Point of View
Jan 25, 2002
Credo
Sep 12, 1997
Aya
Sep 01, 2012
The Zookeeper
Nov 22, 2001
The Notebook
Jul 03, 2013
Ripple
Oct 01, 2023
The Miracle
Oct 12, 2013
A Second Chance
Sep 08, 2014
In der Überzahl
Jan 01, 2013
Café Hector
Mar 08, 1996
Sergeant Pepper
Dec 23, 2004
The World Is Not Enough
Nov 17, 1999
The Commune
Jan 14, 2016
Apparat
Mortdecai
Jan 21, 2015
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Sep 28, 2001
Max
Sep 10, 2002
Stockholm Bloodbath
Jan 19, 2024
Summer of '92
Aug 27, 2015
Baby
Aug 08, 2003
Kingdom of Heaven
May 03, 2005
The Weight of Water
Mar 30, 2001
Small Town Killers
Jan 12, 2017
In Embryo
Jun 16, 2016
Duplicity
Mar 18, 2009
A Regular Thing
Jan 05, 1997
Darling
Oct 19, 2017
Royal Blues
Aug 20, 1997
Shadow of a Hero
Jun 03, 2015
Ins Leben zurück
Oct 10, 2003
Slaget på tasken
Oct 18, 1993
1989: A Spy Story
Aug 21, 2019
Gooseboy
Oct 03, 2019
The Space Between the Lines
Sep 12, 2019
The Marco Effect
May 27, 2021
Mother at War
Oct 29, 2020
The Good Traitor
Aug 13, 2020
Solen er så rød
Jan 01, 2000
The Idiots Who Started The Party
Oct 13, 2020
A Violent Man
Feb 04, 2022
The Celebration in Retrospect
Nov 18, 2005
Dead Language
Jun 09, 2025
Run
Nov 14, 2025
In Love & War
Nov 15, 2018
Nightwatch
Feb 25, 1994
Banshee
Jan 11, 2013
The Left Wing Gang
Dec 06, 2009
The Blacklist
Sep 23, 2013
Banshee: Origins
Jan 11, 2013
Trom
Feb 13, 2022
Dybt vand
Mar 31, 1999
Fringe
Sep 09, 2008
The Virgin Queen
Jan 22, 2006
Those Who Kill
Mar 13, 2011
Counterpart
Dec 10, 2017
The Company
Aug 05, 2007
Shining Girls
Apr 28, 2022
Face to Face
Nov 15, 2019
Grundtvig
May 19, 2024
The New Pope
Jan 10, 2020
Bryggeren
Dec 29, 1996
Charlot og Charlotte
Sep 01, 1996
ZULU Comedy Galla
Sep 02, 2010
Agent
Jul 09, 2023
Ditte & Louise
Jun 05, 2015
All Exclusive
Dec 07, 2022
