Jesper Christensen
Allan Jesper Christensen ( born May 16, 1948 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish actor.
Life and career
Christensen came in the late 1960s as a student for the first time with acting in touch. After living as a laborer in Greenland and started a teaching degree, he worked from 1971, among other things as an actor at Copenhagen Fiolteatret. As a theater actor he has performed at all the major theaters of Copenhagen, while his film and television career took up the mid-1970s. He appeared in the 1975 staged by Eberhard Fechner, on the autobiographical books by Walter Kempowski based television miniseries Tadellöser & Wolff and a chapter for itself with. Already for his fifth feature film role as a bemused unemployed in Henning Carlsen's drama hor, the var ikke en som lo? (1978 ) he won the Bodil, Denmark's oldest film award. This he should win three more times (Barbara, The Bank, manslaughter - The vicious circle of violence ). Also four times he was awarded the Robert the Danish Film Academy ( Sofie, the russiske sangerinde, Barbara, The Bank) honored.
Christensen was nominated in 2001 for manslaughter for the European Film Award for Best Actor. In the drama by Per Fly, he played a left high school teacher who has an affair with a former student who commits a murder. An international audience Christensen was also known with films like Italian for Beginners (2000) and The Interpreter ( 2005). In 2006, he played in 21 film of the James Bond series, Casino Royale, the role of the ominous Mr. White. He took over The same role in the content of subsequent sequel Quantum of Solace (2008). In the TV series Arvingerne the DR, he took over the role of Thomas Konrad. In two episodes he also directed.
Personal
Christensen is married to theater director Tove Bornhøft.