Thure Lindhardt
Hair Color: Light blondEye Color: Grey-blueHeight: 182Weight: 73
Education:Guvernor Dummer Summer Academy, MA USA 1993 and 1994. Odense National Theatre School of Denmark, 1994-98.
Languages:Mother Tongue: English, GermanFamiliar with: French
Biography
Thure Lindhardt is one of the most critically acclaimed Danish actors of his generation. He possesses a rare ability to combine his innocent and delicate appearance with a dangerous and sinister psyche. He began his career at the age of 12, where he played the role of a classmate in Bille August’s film, ‘Pelle the Conqueror’, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ in 1987. Thure continued his training at the Odense Theatre School and in 1998 was named the recipient of the ‘Reumert Award’ for ‘Best New Talent’ for his professional debut in ‘Shopping and Fucking’ at Café Teatret that same year.
Lindhardt garnered international acclaim, including a ‘Best Actor’ nomination at both the ‘Bodil’ Awards and the ‘Robert’ Awards for his lead role as ‘Brian’, an autistic boy suspected of murder, in ‘A Place Nearby’, which was featured in the official selection at the 50th Berlin Film Festival, where Thure was also named ‘Shooting Star’.
Thure has since appeared in such films as ‘Angels in Fast Motion’ for which he won the ‘Robert’ award, and ‘Flame & Citron’ for which he received nominations ‘Best Actor in a Lead Role’ both at the ‘Robert’ awards and the ‘European Film Awards’ together with Mads Mikkelsen. Thure had his first American role in Sean Penn’s ‘Into the Wild’, and soon after in Ron Howard’s ‘Angels & Demons’. At the Berlin Film Festival in 2012, the American indie film ‘Keep the Lights On’ won the ‘Teddy’ Award. The film had its world premiere at Sundance this year, and Thure was nominated ‘Best lead role’ at The Spirit Awards (US) and he won ‘Best lead Role’ at the Gotham Independent Film Award in NY. Thure also worked in Dublin in a major supporting role in the Oscar-winning director Neil Jordan’s vampire film ‘Byzantium’. Thure starred in the highly talked about feature film ‘3096’, which is the film version of Natasha Kampbush’s biography of her kidnapping and captivity in a cellar for exactly 3,096 days before she managed to escape. Thure is the significant lead role where he portrays Wolfgang Priklopil the kidnapper.
Thure is the lead role opposite Sofia Helin in the successful TV series The Bridge season 3+4, a Swedish-Danish co-production, for which he received a ‘Robert’ nomination. Other international projects include tv series like ‘The Borgias’ and ‘The Last Kingdom’.
Thure has since been nominated 13 times for his acting roles and won the awards: Robert Award (Danish Film Awards), EFP Shooting Star, Reumert Talent Award, the Jury Price at LesGaiCineMad, Zulu Award, Teaterpokalen, Hartmann-Fondens Diplompris, and Lauritzen Prisen.
Thure has appeared in multiple stage productions like ‘Hamlet’, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ based on the Oscar-winning motion picture, ‘The Government Inspector’ at Nørrebro Theatre, and ‘Erasmus Montanus’, ‘Crime and Punishment’ at the Royal Danish Theatre. At the Betty Nansens Theater, Thure starred in the play ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ which gained huge commercial success.
Besides acting, Thure is an avid speaker who both teaches and provides lectures. He has since 2009 been a guest teacher at the Oure College for their performing arts programs.
He works passionately with acting techniques, including the Chubbuck Technique, which makes an actor able to understand his or her role fully.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
Winner of: Teater Pokalen, Best actor in a lead role at the theater |
Nominated: Lauritzen Prisen |
Nominated: Zulu Awards, Best leading Actor, 'Sandheden om mænd' |
Nominated: The European Film Awards, Best leading Actor , 'Flame & Citron' |
Nominated: The Danish Critics Award, Bodil, Best leading Actor , 'Flame & Citron' |
Nominated: The Danish Academy Award, Robert, Best leading Actor, 'Flame & Citron' |
Winner of: The Danish Academy Award, Robert, Best supporting Actor, 'Angels in fast Motion' |
Nominated: The Danish Critics Award Bodil for Best leading Actor , 'Angels in fast Motion' |
Nominated: The Danish Academy Award, Robert, Best leading Actor, 'A Place Nearby' |
Nominated: The Danish Critics Award, Bodil, Best leading Actor, 'A Place Nearby' |
Receiver of: The Reumert Talent Award |
Winner: Shooting Star, Berlin Filmfestival |
Member of European Film Academy |
Dubbing / Voice over
Hodja fra Pjort | Lead - Hodja | Karsten Kiilerich | M&M Productions |
Gummi T | Ivan Olsen | Michael Hegner | Crone Film |
Orla Frøsnapper | Victor | Peter Dodd | Crone Film |
De Utrolige / The Incredibles | Buddy Pine / Syndrom | Brad Bird | Pixar Animation Studios / Walk Disney Pictures |
Jungledyret Hugo | Various | TV2 |
Film
Flammen over Jølster | Lead - Nikolai Astrup | Pål Øie | Handmade films in Norwegian woods |
In Love and War | Hansen | Kasper Torsting | Fridthjof Film |
Light Thereafter | Piri | Konstantin Bojanov | Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) |
Byzantium | Supporting | Neil Jordan | Demarest Films |
3096 - Kampbush | Lead | Sherry Hormann | Constatin Film |
Formentera | lead | Ann-kristin Reyels | Una-Film |
Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal | Lead | Boris Rodriguez | Fridthjof Film |
The Island | Lead | Kamen Kalev | Film i Västerbotten |
Brotherhood | Lead | Nicolo Donato | ASA Film |
The Wild Swans | Prins Albrecht | Ghita Nørby & Peter Flinth | JJ Film |
Sandheden om mænd | Lead | Nikolaj Arcel | Zentropa Productions |
Angels and Demons | Supporting | Ron Howard | Columbia Pictures |
Flame and Citron | Lead | Ole Christian Madsen | Nimbus Film |
Little Soldier | Supporting | Annette K. Olesen | Zentropa Production |
Take the Trash | Lead | Rasmus Heide | Fridtjorf Film |
Daisy Diamond | Supporting | Dir. Simon Staho | Zentropa Production |
Into The Wild | Supporting | Sean Penn | Paramount |
Restless Souls | Supporting | Martin Smith | Wise Guy |
Angels in Fast Motion | Steso | O.C. Madsen | Nimbus Film |
Love in Thoughts | Lead | Achim von Borries | X-Filme, Germany |
Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken | Hans | Achim von Borries | X-Filme Creative Pool |
Farland | Supporting | Mickael Klier | Zero Film |
Slim, Slam, Slum | Lead | Ballaren Bros | Zentropa Productions |
One Hell of a X-mas | Lead | Shaky Gonzales | Wise Guy, DK/AUSAprod. in DK |
El Cocinero | Lead | Shaky Gonzales | Wise Guy |
Nude descending | Lead | C.S. Leigh | Parallel Pictures, UK/Franceprod. in Brussels |
Far From China | Supporting | C.S. Leigh | Parallel Pictures, prod. In UK |
Juliane | Supporting | Hans Kristensen | Per Holst Film |
A Place Nearby | Lead | Kaspar Rostrup | Nordisk Film |
Pelle the Conqueror | Supporting | Bille August | SF Films |
Negerkys og labre larver | Postbud | Li Vilstrup | Metronome Productions |
Film in USA
Kill Command | Bukes | Steven Gomez | Vertigo Films |
Despite the Falling Snow | Dimitri | Shamim Sarif | Faling Snow Ltd. |
Fast & Furious 6 | Chris Morgan | Universal Pictures |
Keep the Lights On | Lead | Ira Sachs | Ira Sachs, Lucas Joaquin,Marie Therese Guirgis. |
Byzantium | Neil Jordan |
Angels & Demons | Chartrand | Ron Howard | Sony |
Into The Wild | Mads | Sean Penn | Paramount Vintage |
Short films
Hollow Hearts | Carl | Emilie Marloth Frøkjær | The Danish Filmschool |
The Dolphin | Peter | Laurits Munch-Petersen | M&M Productions |
Bondefanger | Thomas | Esben Larsen | Det Danske Filminstitut |
Debutanten | Laertes | Christian Tafdrup | DR |
Kokken | Henrik | Shaky González | Dansk Novellefilm |
Alt andet blev pludseligt totalt ligegyldigt | Supporting | Esben Larsen | Det Danske Filminstitut |
Bånd på livet | Modedesigner | Annette K. Olesen | DR |
Pieces | René | Poul Erik Madsen | Storyville Visual Communication ApS |
Television
The Last Kingdom | Guthred | Carnival Film & Television / Netflix |
The Bridge 3 | Lead | Rumle Hammerrich | Filmlance/DR |
Liebe Am Fjord - Das Ende Einer Eiszeit | Henrik Sörenbrandt | Jörg Grünler & Matthias Tiefenbacher | Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion |
Das Duo - Bestien | Tim Stein | Christian Görlitz | |
Alles Liebe | Baptiste | Kai Wessel | Allmedia Pictures GmbH |
Tatort - Architektur Eines Mordes | Paul Goebels / Charlie | Titus Selge | Fernsehfilm |
Blekingegade Banden | Bo Weiman | Jacob Tuesen | Zentropa Productions |
Nachtschicht | Rudi Kasper | Lars Becker | Network Movie |
Sugar Rush | Supporting | Various | Shine/Channel 4, UK |
Skjulte spor | Lukas | Nordisk Film | |
Defense | Supporting | Morten Arnfred | Nordisk Film |
Unit 1 | Supporting | Martin Smith | Danish National TV |
Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken | Hans Købke | Zentropa Entertainments | |
The Spider | Supporting | Ole Christian Madsen | Danish National TV |
Silents Water | Supporting | Lone Scherfig | Zentropa/ Danish National TV2 |
Strisser på Samsø | Hansi | Per Holst Filmproduktion |
Theater
Elton Johns Glasses | Supporting | Christoffer Bro | Mungo Park Theatre |
Crime and Punishment | Rodion Raskolnikov | Rune David Grue | The Royal Theatre |
Hamlet | Lead | Kaspar Rostrup | Gladsaxe New Theatre |
Scenes from a Century | Lead | Henrik Sartou | Gladsaxe Theatre |
The Brothers Karamazov | Lead | Kim Bjarke | The Royal Theatre |
Hamlet | Lead | Lars Engel | Kronborg Castle, Summer 2004 |
Noway.Today | Lead | Kim Bjarke | Husets Theatre |
La Dame aux Camelies | Lead | Flemming Enevold | Gladsaxe Theatre |
Anthony and Cleopatra | Lead | Claus Hoffmeyer | The Royal Theatre |
Strange Interlude | Supporting | Jan Maagaard | The Royal Theatre |
Cleansed | Supporting | Jan Maagaard | The Royal Theatre |
Aladdin | Lead | Flemming Enevold | Ulvedalenes Theatre |
CI-VI-LI-SA-TION | Lead | Alexa Ther | The Royal Theatre |
Shopping and F**king | Lead | Alexa Ther | Café Theatre |
Natsværmer | Lead | Christoffer Berdal | Mammut Theatre |
The Screamers | Lead | Ole Bornedal | Aveny-T |
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