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. He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series "Game of Thrones", and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. His breakthrough role in Denmark was in the film "Nightwatch" (1994).

Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Scandinavia and Europe, 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.

Coster-Waldau was born in Rudkøbing, Denmark, the son of Hanne Søborg Coster, a librarian, and Jørgen Oscar Fritzer Waldau (died 1998).

He married Nukâka, a Greenlandic actress and singer, in 1997, and they live in Copenhagen with their two daughters as well as two dogs.

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