Line #41 Creator/MadsMikkelsen


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7	[[caption-width-right:250:[[MemeticMutation He is no longer mentally ill]].]]
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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