Highest rated as cast or director
Game of Thrones
2011 · 8 Seasons
Headhunters
2011
New Amsterdam
2008 · 1 Season
Shot Caller
2017
Nightwatch
1994
Biography
Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (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. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and Scandinavia, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S, his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.
Acted in 70
2020s
- 2025
My Fathers' Daughter
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- 2023
En særlig samtale
TV
Agent
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau · 1 episode
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
Gone Hollywood
Jack DeVoe
- 2017
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Jaime Lannister (voice)
Chicken/Egg
Kenneth
3 Things
Mikael
- 2016
- 2015
Game of Thrones: The Musical
Jaime Lannister
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Jaime Lannister
- 2014
- 2013
- 2011
Blackthorn
Butch Cassidy
- 2010
ZULU Comedy Galla
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau · 1 episode
2000s
- 2009
The Left Wing Gang
Jan Weimann · 5 episodes
At World's End
Severin Geertsen
Virtuality
TV
- 2008
Himmerland
Thomas
The Kautokeino Rebellion
Biskop Juell
Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)
Biskop Juell · 3 episodes
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
Shadow of the Sword
Martin
- 2004
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Miklos
The Good Cop
Sune
- 2003
The Bouncer
Svend
Stealing Rembrandt
Kenneth
- 2002
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Anton
- 2001
- 2000
Lock, Stock...
Jordi · 2 episodes
Foreign Fields
Holt
1990s
- 1999
Hvem vil være millionær? Classic
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Misery Harbour
Espen Arnakke
Antenneforeningen
Rocker
- 1998
Angel of the Night
Frankie
- 1997
71Bent
Wolf
- 1994
- 1991
Requiem
Movie
1980s
- 1989
No release date
Virtue
Movie
Produced 6
2020s
- 2026
Qajaq Man
Producer
- 2025
- 2022
- 2021
2010s
- 2017
3 Things
Executive Producer
No release date
Virtue
Producer
Wrote 2
2020s
- 2022
1990s
- 1998
Directed 1
2020s
- 2025
Appearances14
2020s
- 2024
- 2022
2010s
- 2019
Through Greenland - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Self - Host · 5 episodes
- 2014
2000s
- 2009
- 2006
Soccer Aid
Self - Player · 1 episode
- 2003
- 2002
1990s
- 1997
Thanked in the credits1
2020s
- 2023