Nikolaj CosterWaldau Movies Bio Wiki Age Wife Game Of Throne and Net Worth
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor and producer. He had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). Nikolaj played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.
He received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot.
Nikolaj was born on July 27, 1970, in Rudkøbing, Denmark. He is 52 years old.
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.88 m).
He was born in Rudkøbing, Denmark, to his parents Hanne Søborg Coster and Jørgen Oscar Fritzer Waldau. Nikolaj’s mother was a librarian and his father died in 1998. He has spoken in interviews about his father’s problems with alcohol, as well as his parent’s divorce.
Nikolaj has two older sisters and was raised mainly by his mother. He grew up in Tybjerg, a small village between Ringsted and Næstved in southern Zealand
Nikolaj marriedNukâka, a Greenlandic actress and singer, in 1997. They live in Copenhagen with their two daughters as well as two dogs. Their daughter Filippa starred in a Danish short film, The Girl and the Dogs, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Nikolaj’s other daughter, Safina starred in a Danish Christmas TV series named Theo og Den Magiske Talisman in December 2018 as the main character Simone. The TV series was watched by more than 700,000 people in December 2018.
He attended the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (Danish: Statens Teaterskole) from 1989 to 1993.
2006 Filthy Gorgeous 2008 New Amsterdam 2009 Virtuality 2009–2010 The Left Wing Gang 2011–2019 Game of Thrones 2015 Saturday Night Live 2017 The Simpsons 3 things 2017 Shot Caller Jacob ‘Money’ Harlon 2019 Domino 2019 Suicide Tourist 2020 Krudttønden 2020 The Silencing 2021 A Taste of Hunger 2022 Against the Ice
From 2011 to 2019, Nikolaj played Jaime Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire. He commented about the character “What’s not to like about Jaime? As an actor I couldn’t ask for a better role”.
For his role, he received several accolades, including Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics’ Choice Television Award, Saturn Award, and People’s Choice Award nominations.
He had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch which brought him fame in his native country. Nightwatch is a 1994 Danish horror thriller film directed and written by Danish director Ole Bornedal.
The film involves Martin (Nikolaj) who gets a student job as a night watchman at the Forensic Medicine Institute. When making his rounds he finds he must go to where the deceased people are kept.
Nikolaj starred in Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters. The film went on to be the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time and received very positive reviews including a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.
Since September 2016, Nikolaj has been serving as a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador to raise awareness and support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, an action to end poverty, fight inequality and stop climate change.
In 2017 he partnered with Google, using Street View to document the impact of global warming in Greenland, in order to increase awareness and highlight climate change.
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Nikolaj’s estimated net worth is $16 million.
Nikolaj is a 52-year-old Danish actor and producer. He had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). Nikolaj played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.
