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8 | ->''"There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue."'' |
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10 | Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. |
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12 | Quite popular back in his home country before he reached international stardom, having been voted UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}'s sexiest man multiple times. Before he became an actor, he was a trained gymnast and later a professional dancer, having done the latter for almost a decade. He turned to acting when he wanted to pursue the more dramatic side of expression. He is the younger brother of Creator/LarsMikkelsen, who has similarly managed to carve out some international fame. He's not related to Danish-American Creator/MichaelMadsen. |
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15 | He made his film debut in Creator/NicolasWindingRefn's directorial debut in the Danish crime drama ''Film/{{Pusher}}'', and later reprised his role in ''Pusher 2''. His role as CowboyCop DI Alan Fischer on the Danish CopShow, ''Series/{{Rejseholdet}}'', significantly raised his star in Denmark. His first Hollywood debut was as Tristan in ''Film/KingArthur2004'', but internationally he's probably more well known for his role as the villain Le Chiffre from ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', and his portrayal of Dr. Franchise/HannibalLecter in the TV Show of [[Series/{{Hannibal}} the same name]]. Outside of Denmark, or rather in Hollywood, he also more well known for playing villainous or very [[AntiHero anti-heroic]] characters, but in most of his other films he's played a variety of other characters, from cheerful, low-level gangsters to harrassed, mournful everymen. In November 2020, Creator/WarnerBrothers announced that he had been cast to take over the role of BigBad Gellert Grindelwald from Creator/JohnnyDepp for the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' franchise starting with [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore the third film]]. |
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17 | [[ViewerPronunciationConfusion Contrary to most English speakers' assumptions, Mads isn't pronounced "Madz", as the d in his name is silent.]] In interviews, he's clarified that the closest pronunciation is either "mess" or "mas" (as in "Tho'''mas'''"). |
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20 | !!Roles |
21 | * ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' (1996) |
22 | * ''Film/{{Bleeder}}'' (1999) |
23 | * ''Film/FlickeringLights'' (2000) |
24 | * ''Series/{{Rejseholdet}}'' (2000 - 2004) |
25 | * ''Film/TheGreenButchers'' (2003) |
26 | * ''Film/KingArthur2004'' |
27 | * ''Pusher 2'' (2004) |
28 | * ''Film/AdamsApples'' (2005) |
29 | * ''Film/AfterTheWedding'' (2006) |
30 | * ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' -- Le Chiffre |
31 | * ''Film/FlameAndCitron'' (2008) |
32 | * ''Film/ValhallaRising'' (2009) |
33 | * ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' |
34 | * ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011'' |
35 | * ''Film/TheHunt2012'' |
36 | * ''Film/ARoyalAffair'' (2012) |
37 | * ''Film/CharlieCountryman'' (2013) |
38 | * ''[[Literature/MichaelKohlhaas Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas]]'' (2013) |
39 | * ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' (2013-2015) |
40 | * ''Film/TheSalvation'' (2014) |
41 | * ''Film/MenAndChicken'' (2015) |
42 | * ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' as Kaecilius |
43 | * ''[[Film/RogueOne Rogue One: A Star Wars Story]]'' (2016) |
44 | * ''Film/{{Arctic}}'' (2018, theatrical release in 2019) |
45 | * ''Film/{{Polar}}'' (2019) |
46 | * ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' (2019) |
47 | * ''Film/AnotherRound'' (2020) |
48 | * ''Film/RidersOfJustice'' (2020) |
49 | * ''Film/ChaosWalking2021'' |
50 | * ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' (2022) |
51 | * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' (2023) -- Jürgen Voller |
52 | * ''[[Film/ThePromisedLand2023 The Promised Land]]'' aka ''Bastarden'' (2023) -- Ludwig Kahlen |
53 | * ''WesternAnimation/MufasaTheLionKing'' (2024) |
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55 | !!Tropes appearing on his works: |
56 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''ads '''M'''ikkelsen. |
57 | * CarpetOfVirility: Has a hairy upper body that has been put to show on several works. |
58 | * ChronicallyKilledActor: Mostly for typecasting as a villain. Albeit even playing a sympathetic character in ''Film/RogueOne'' didn't prevent him from dying! |
59 | * ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: His famous characters tend to be like this, resulting in a joke about his contract requiring some random eye tropes. |
60 | * EyeScream: He's played a few characters who get some form of damage to their eyes. |
61 | ** Le Chiffre from ''Casino Royale'' has scarring to one eye and weeps blood due to vessel damage. |
62 | ** His character in ''Valhalla Rising'' has only one eye and is known as "One-Eye" due to being unable or unwilling to communicate his real name. |
63 | ** Duncan from ''Polar'' wears an eye patch. |
64 | ** Kaecilius from ''Doctor Strange'' gets some nasty-looking markings around his eyes due to drawing power from the Dark One, consisting of cracked skin exposing purple flesh beneath. The same thing happens to his followers too. |
65 | * {{Omniglot}}: Beyond his native language of Danish, he can speak fluent Swedish, and at least some French.[[note]]He has given interviews in French, and has even co-starred in French movies, but it's not widely known how well he can speak it.[[/note]] In an interview for ''Hannibal'', Mikkelsen said he's not quite as fluent in English as he appears to be, and sometimes has to look up certain words from the scripts in a dictionary. Though this might have as much to do with the show's PurpleProse as anything else. |
66 | * ProductionPosse: [[invoked]] With Creator/NicolasWindingRefn and Creator/AndersThomasJensen. |
67 | * SharpDressedMan: As Le Chiffre and as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, but in real life he prefers to wear very comfortable and casual clothing. |
68 | * SoMyKidsCanWatch: An unusual variant. He had no idea who Music/{{Rihanna}} was before he was asked to appear in her "Bitch Better Have My Money" music video, so he asked his kids (who are a little older than the usual subjects of this trope), who cursed at him and yelled at him that he better accept the role or they would kill him. |
69 | * {{Typecasting}}: While he’s a very versatile actor, if he’s in an English speaking and/or franchise role, he’s usually playing a villain. |
70 | * VillainousCheekbones: Mikkelsen has high, prominent cheekbones that suit his villainous {{typecasting}} in English works. |
71 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Film critics and analytics has noted that Mikkelsen often retains a slight hint of a Danish accent in many of his roles, but also that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this actually works immensely in his favor]], as the Danish accent is relatively obscure and it lends an air of authenticity to many of his "villain of ambiguous, possibly European nationality" roles. |
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