23 Notable alumni of
Danish National School of Performing Arts
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The Danish National School of Performing Arts is 856th in the world, 303rd in Europe, and 4th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the Danish National School of Performing Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- Enrolled in the Danish National School of Performing Arts
- Studied in 1989-1993
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. His breakthrough role was in Denmark with the film Nightwatch in 1994. He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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Lars Mikkelsen
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- video game actorstreet artistfilm actortelevision actormime artist
- Biography
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Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. He is known for his roles as Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the Danish police procedural The Killing, the character Charles Augustus Magnussen in the third series of the BBC programme Sherlock, fictional Russian president Viktor Petrov in the American political thriller TV series House of Cards, mage Stregobor on the Netflix series The Witcher, and Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka. In 2011, he won the Reumert Prize of Honour for his contributions to Danish theatre.
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Pilou Asbæk
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk is a Danish actor, best known for his role as troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish television political drama Borgen, and as Euron Greyjoy in the television series Game of Thrones.
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Claes Bang
- Enrolled in the Danish National School of Performing Arts
- In 1996 graduated with actor
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Claes Kasper Bang is a Danish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading role of Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and for the role of Fjölnir in Robert Eggers's 2022 film The Northman. In 2019, he played the role of Sasha Mann for the final season of The Affair, and he rose to further international recognition by starring as Count Dracula in the BBC/Netflix series Dracula (2020). For his role in The Square, he became the first Dane to win the European Film Award for Best Actor. Bang has also developed a music career under the moniker of This Is Not America.
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Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
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- voice actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Birgitte Hjort Sørensen is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after visiting London while at school and watching the West End production of the musical Chicago. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the television series The Eagle in 2005. She followed this by playing Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of Chicago, and later on the West End. Sørensen's breakthrough role was as television journalist Katrine Fønsmark in the Danish political drama television series Borgen (2010–2013, 2022).
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Ulrich Thomsen
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- film producerfilm actorfilm directortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016).
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Trine Dyrholm
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- songwritervoice actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Trine Dyrholm is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress five times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress twice as well as six Robert Awards in her acting career.
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Danica Curcic
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- voice actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Danica Curcic ) (born 27 August 1985 in Belgrade) is a Serbian-Danish actress.
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Jakob Cedergren
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Jakob Cedergren is a Swedish and Danish actor who has appeared in films, television and theatre. He has starred in several cinema productions, including Stealing Rembrandt, Dark Horse, Rage, Timetrip – Der Fluch der Wikinger-Hexe and Submarino. However, he became best known for his roles in the Scandinavian television series Those Who Kill and The Sandhamn Murders.
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Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
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- film actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Mikkel Boe Følsgaard is a Danish actor. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts and has appeared in films and television series such as A Royal Affair (2012), The Legacy (2014–2017), Summer of '92 (2015), Land of Mine (2015), Walk with Me (2016), A Perfectly Normal Family (2020), The Chestnut Man (2021), and Borgen (2022). He played Gérard de Villefort in the English-language series The Count of Monte Cristo (2024). He has received several awards for his performances, including the Bodil and Robert awards, and became the first Danish actor to win the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Nicolas Bro
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- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Nicolas Bro is a Danish actor of stage and screen, and a playwright. He played a German soldier in Steven Spielberg's 2011 film War Horse. On television, he is known for his role as Thomas Buch in the TV series The Killing (2009), as Ditlev Gothardt Monrad in 1864 (2014), and as Freddie in The Bridge (2015). He appears as Folke in the 2025 Netflix series The Asset.
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Anette Støvelbæk
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- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Anette Støvelbæk is a Danish actress. She was born in Copenhagen and is married to actor Lars Mikkelsen.
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Esben Smed
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- film actoractorvoice actor
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Esben Smed is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Sommeren '92 (2015), A Fortunate Man (2018), and Daniel (2019), as well as the television series Follow the Money (2016–2019).
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Dejan Čukić
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- actortelevision actorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm actor
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Dejan Čukić is a Montenegrin-Danish actor. He appeared in the Wallander TV film series as Lars in The Ghost, based on the novel by Henning Mankell. He also played Cardinal Giulano della Rovere in the TV drama series Borgia.
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Jessica Dinnage
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Jessica Dinnage is a Danish actress. She is best known for her role as Lea in Netflix's TV series The Rain. In 2019, Dinnage won a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Danish Film Academy Robert Awards for her performance as Iben in the 2018 film The Guilty.
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Morten Suurballe
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- actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Morten Sasse Suurballe is a Danish actor, best known for playing Detective Chief Inspector Lennart Brix in the three television series The Killing in which he played alongside Sofie Gråbøl.
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Lene Maria Christensen
- Occupations
- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Lene Maria Christensen is a Danish actress. She is best known for her roles in both television and film, including the series Hotellet, Forsvar and Arvingerne.
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Vic Carmen Sonne
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- actor
- Biography
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Victoria "Vic" Carmen Sonne is a Danish actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Winter Brothers (2017), Holiday (2018), Godland (2022), and The Girl with the Needle (2024). She has won two Bodil Awards and two Robert Awards.
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Lars Bom
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- voice actoractor
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Lars Bom is a Danish actor, educated at The Danish National School of Theatre in 1985. Lars Bom has worked in various roles in Theatre, Film and Television, and won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival in 1999, for his starring role in the cyberpunk-thriller Skyggen (1998). However, he is best known for his roles in Strisser på Samsø and Rejseholdet.
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Marie Tourell Søderberg
- Enrolled in the Danish National School of Performing Arts
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- writervoice actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Marie Tourell Søderberg is an actress known for 1864 (2014) and Itsi Bitsi (2015). She graduated from Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York in 2007 and finished her education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in June 2012.
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Stine Fischer Christensen
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- film actoractorscreenwriter
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Stine Fischer Christensen is a Danish actress. She has appeared in more than fifteen films since 1997. For her performance as Anna Louisa Hansson in After the Wedding she won the Bodil and Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Charlotte Sieling
- Enrolled in the Danish National School of Performing Arts
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorvoice actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Charlotte Sieling is a Danish actress and film director. She began her career as an actress in the mid-1980s. In the 2000s, she turned to film directing, working on a number of successful DR TV series such as the Emmy-winning Unit One, The Killing, The Bridge and the BAFTA-winning Borgen. She had her feature film debut with Above the Street, Below the Water in 2009. Her success as a director of TV series has more recently brought her to the US where her work includes directing two episodes of Homeland.
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Ole Lemmeke
- Enrolled in the Danish National School of Performing Arts
- Studied in 1981-1984
- Occupations
- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Ole Lemmeke is a Danish actor. He is known for his work in Besat, Magnetisøren's femte vinter and Den russiske sangerinde.
