FrameThrower · Actors · Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen
11 films · 548 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1996–2023
Born 22 November 1965 · Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. He rose to fame in Denmark as an actor for his roles such as Tonny in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy (1996, 2004), Detective Sergeant Allan Fischer in the television series Rejseholdet (2000–2004), Niels in Open Hearts (2002), Svend in The Green Butchers (2003), Ivan in Adam's Apples (2005), and Jacob Petersen in After the Wedding (2006).
Mikkelsen achieved worldwide recognition for playing the main antagonist, Le Chiffre, in the twenty-first James Bond film, Casino Royale (2006).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 548 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1996–2023
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor2012
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog2010
- Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2024
- European Film Award for Best Actor2023
- Bambi Award2023
- Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2021
- Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2021
- European Film Award for Best Actor2020
- Silver Shell for Best Actor2020
- The Game Awards − Best Performance2019
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2016
- Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 548 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mads takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Mads takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Promised Land
2023 · Ludvig Kahlen
Another Round
2020 · Martin
Riders of Justice
2020 · Markus
Polar
2019 · Duncan Vizla
Valhalla Rising
2009 · One-Eye
Casino Royale
2006 · Le Chiffre
Pusher II
2004 · Tonny
Pusher
1996 · Tonny
At Eternity’s Gate
2018 · The Priest
Doctor Strange
2016 · Kaecilius
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Galen Erso
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 548 frames from Mads Mikkelsen's 11 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.