- Born
- Birth nameMads Dittman Mikkelsen
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew to become one of Denmark's biggest movie actors. The success in his home country includes Flickering Lights (2000), Shake It All About (2001) and the Emmy-winning police series Unit One (2000).
His success has taken him abroad where he has played alongside Gérard Depardieu in I Am Dina (2002) as well as in the Spanish comedy Torremolinos 73 (2003) and the American blockbuster King Arthur (2004).
He played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the critically acclaimed NBC series Hannibal (2013), from 2013 to 2015, with great success.
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- SpouseHanne Jacobsen(December 2, 2000 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenCarl MikkelsenViola MikkelsenViola Jacobsen Mikkelsen
- ParentsBente Christiansen
- RelativesLars Mikkelsen(Sibling)
- Often plays a character with a defective left eye: Ivan in Adam's Apples (2005), Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), One Eye in Valhalla Rising (2009), Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (2011) and Duncan Vizla in Polar (2019)
- Deep raspy voice
- Striking chiseled features
- Almond-shaped hazel eyes
- He was a professional dancer for 8 years.
- Knighted on April 16th 2010 by Her Majesty Margrethe 2nd, Queen of Denmark.
- Is very good friends with his Hannibal (2013) co-star Hugh Dancy since the pair starred together in the film King Arthur (2004).
- Learned Swedish during his 1-year-long dance training in Göteborg because he grew tired of Swedes only smiling and nodding at him when he spoke to them in Danish.
- Speaks Swedish fluently and has lived in Gothenburg for many years.
- [on the fact that he is voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" over and over] I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".
- I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
- [on his 1937 Danish Nimbus motorcycle] It is like something Steve McQueen would ride. I love the freedom and it doesn't go quite as fast as a modern bike, which pleases my wife.
- I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises. Let's put it this way: compromises are from hell.
- I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
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