
Ulrich Thomsen
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.866 |
Birthday | 1963-12-06 |
Place of Birth | Odense, Denmark |
Also Known As | Ulrik Thomsen, اولریش تامسن, |

1998

The Celebration
7.7/1099
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that revea...
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The Celebration

2005

Adam's Apples
7.453/700
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
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Adam's Apples

2000

Flickering Lights
7.165/212
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to...
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Flickering Lights

2007

Hitman
6.1/3366
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's...
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Hitman

2008

The Broken
5.443/209
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting...
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The Broken

2004

Brothers
6.7/98
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission th...
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Brothers

2024

Boundless
6/40
In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his...
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Boundless

2007

Opium: Diary of a Madwoman
5.5/19
A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
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Opium: Diary of a Madwoman

2009

The International
6.2/1270
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading...
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The International

2011

Season of the Witch
5.483/2439
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witc...
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Season of the Witch

2003

Blueprint
4.324/17
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an i...
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Blueprint

1998

Baby Doom
5.7/6
Max is a programmer, Nicoline is a chef, and they are both young, in love, and ambitious. Then lightning strikes: they have a baby. From that day on,...
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Baby Doom

2004

The Rocket Post
5.6/7
Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The R...
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The Rocket Post

2010

Centurion
6.2/1420
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Leg...
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Centurion

2009

Lulu and Jimi
5.7/11
About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad g...
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Lulu and Jimi

2007

The Substitute
5.6/65
6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she...
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The Substitute

2009

Tell-Tale
5.387/137
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
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Tell-Tale

1998

Angel of the Night
3.9/15
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they...
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Angel of the Night

2002

Killing Me Softly
5.5/325
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
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Killing Me Softly

2010

The Silence
6.6/136
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present...
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The Silence

2011

The Thing
6.2/2945
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that une...
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The Thing

2006

Clash of Egos
5.603/29
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with h...
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Clash of Egos

2010

In a Better World
7.1/410
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in...
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In a Better World

2003

The Inheritance
6.5/36
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Chri...
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The Inheritance

2008

Fear Me Not
5.125/20
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling...
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Fear Me Not

2023

Before It Ends
7.1/12
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into...
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Before It Ends

1996

The Biggest Heroes
6.1/13
The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daugh...
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The Biggest Heroes

2005

Allegro
6.739/23
Famous pianist Zetterström returns home to his native Denmark, to give a concert, just to find out that the choices he has made in his life have affec...
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Allegro

2022

Take My Hand
6.7/7
The comfort-seeking Maja tries to regain control over her life following her recent divorce. 'Take My Hand' is a romantic comedy with all the drama th...
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Take My Hand

1998

Election Night
6.986/36
On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a var...
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Election Night

1996

Portland
4.7/9
The basic story of a young criminal not quite living up to his won ideals of "not to give a damn" sidesteps out of his criminal career while dragging...
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Portland

2007

Impossibly Yours
3.9/4
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Impossibly Yours

2002

P.O.V. - Point of View
4.2/4
Kamilla, a young Danish girl leaves for Las Vegas to get married. During the ceremony she changes her mind and runs away. She is picked up by Rock, a...
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P.O.V. - Point of View

1997

Credo
5.4/7
Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist...
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Credo

2012

Aya
6.5/20
When Thomas Overby mistakenly believes Aya is his assigned driver, she spontaneously decides to go along with the charade and drives him to Jerusalem....
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Aya

2001

The Zookeeper
6.5/15
Jonah Ludovic is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zo...
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The Zookeeper

2013

The Notebook
6.6/68
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to su...
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The Notebook

2023

Ripple
6.2/4
A true-crime podcast's investigation into the murder of a young woman has unexpected consequences.
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Ripple

2013

The Miracle
4.7/3
A former dancer returns for the first time in years to his childhood country village to attend his mother's funeral. The man discovers that the love o...
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The Miracle

2014

A Second Chance
6.6/151
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, rece...
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A Second Chance

2013

In der Überzahl
6/2
While driving to his Danish homeland, Stig has to stop briefly in a small town, then a stranger suddenly sits in his back seat and puts a gun to his h...
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In der Überzahl

1996

Café Hector
6.7/3
Café Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uff...
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Café Hector

2004

Sergeant Pepper
7.3/3
A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his weal...
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Sergeant Pepper

1999

The World Is Not Enough
6.272/2955
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress fro...
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The World Is Not Enough

2016

The Commune
6.5/196
A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley cr...
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Apparat
0/0
A middle aged, married couple spend a night at their desert cabin. What was planned as an anniversary getaway erupts into a brutalizing void of two to...
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2015

Mortdecai
5.5/2649
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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Mortdecai

1994

Nightwatch
6.9/273
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to fin...
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2001

Mike Bassett: England Manager
7.1/61
After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the Wo...
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Mike Bassett: England Manager

2002

Max
6.1/100
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at p...
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Max

2024

Stockholm Bloodbath
6.4/21
In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Me...
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Stockholm Bloodbath

2015

Summer of '92
6.5/98
The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.
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Summer of '92

2003

Baby
10/1
Sex, drugs and money are the cornerstones in the lives of these rootles young people living in a big city. Leni and Nova are sisters and they both lo...
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Baby

2005

Kingdom of Heaven
6.971/4366
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Kingdom of Heaven

2000

The Weight of Water
5.5/171
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
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The Weight of Water

2017

Small Town Killers
5.7/69
The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlig...
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Small Town Killers

2016

In Embryo
5.7/3
Sean lives a harsh but successful life as a criminal in Los Angeles's rough suburbs. He has, in spite of a chaotic and violent childhood, created some...
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In Embryo

2009

Duplicity
5.9/793
Two romantically involved corporate spies team up to manipulate a race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and al...
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Duplicity

1997

A Regular Thing
3.5/2
Love has a price in this quirky sex comedy. Sten is a 30- year-old librarian. Over a book he meets supersexy Katja, the woman of his dreams, and they...
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A Regular Thing

2017

Darling
5.4/9
The moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and fall of a modern woman as she summons the courage...
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Darling

2018

In Love & War
4.9/8
Danish soldier Esben fakes his own death in an attempt to flee the war and reunite with his beloved wife Kirstine and their son Karl after being apart...
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In Love & War

1997

Royal Blues
6/1
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Royal Blues

2015

Shadow of a Hero
0/0
A grandchild sets out to discover how the death of his grandfather in the Spanish Civil War could split up the entire family for three generations.
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Shadow of a Hero

2003

Ins Leben zurück
0/0
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Ins Leben zurück

1993

Slaget på tasken
8/2
A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and tak...
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Slaget på tasken

2019

1989: A Spy Story
6.6/16
Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.
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1989: A Spy Story

2019

Gooseboy
5.6/5
Vigo is a nerdy teenage boy who lives in a fictional world and simulates a virtual game called “Gooseboy,” which enables him to become free as a flyin...
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Gooseboy

2019

The Space Between the Lines
6.4/64
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeate...
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The Space Between the Lines

2021

The Marco Effect
5.8/95
When a homeless Romani boy is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant's passport, police inspector Carl Mørck and Dep...
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The Marco Effect

2020

Mother at War
7.7/44
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the vi...
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Mother at War

2020

The Good Traitor
5.8/18
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.
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The Good Traitor

2000

Solen er så rød
5/1
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Solen er så rød

2020

The Idiots Who Started The Party
6/1
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The I...
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The Idiots Who Started The Party

2022

A Violent Man
6.684/19
Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against...
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A Violent Man

2005

The Celebration in Retrospect
0/0
This 2005 documentary features interviews with the cast and crew of The Celebration, including director Thomas Vinterberg and co-screenwriter Mogens R...
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