Lars Mikkelsen
Lars Mikkelsen
Lars Dittmann Mikkelsenis a Danish actor perhaps best known to international TV audiences for his roles as Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the drama series The Killing, Charles Augustus Magnussen, the primary villain in the third series of Sherlock, the Russian President Viktor Petrov in House of Cards on Netflix, and Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels. He is the older brother of actor Mads Mikkelsen. In 2011 he won the Reumert Prize of honour...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 May 1964
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
I would be the worst biologist in the world!
I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.