
At age 27 he began his studies at the National Theatre School of Denmark from which he was graduated in the year 1995. Apart from his performance in The Killing's drama series, he also appeared in Borgen III, a Danish drama series. He also played a lead role in an episode of the BBC drama Sherlock as a blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen. He played the president of Russia in House of Cards, an American TV show. He won an International Emmy Award in 2018 for his role in Danish television drama Herrens Veje, which was shown in the UK in 2019 as Ride in the Storm.In addition to his home country of Danish, Mikkelsen speaks fluent Swedish, German and English, and he has mastered different accents. According to Mikkelsen's story the actor was taught English from his brother listening to Monty Python recordings and watching the sketches of comedy.
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