Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Actor

May 1, 1984 (42 years)

Rønne, Bornholm, Danmark

Biography

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard is a young danish actor. In 2012, he won the award of Best Male Actor at the Berlinale for his appearance in the movie A Royal Affair, while still attending theatre school, Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen. He graduated in the summer of 2012.

Filmography

7.5

The Chestnut Man

Mark Hess

At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

7.8

The Count of Monte Cristo

Gerard Villefort

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

7.2

The Rain

Martin

After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.

8.1

Borgen

Asger Holm Kirkegaard

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

6.9

Dicte

Cato Winding

Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.

7.5

The Legacy

Emil

The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.

8.0

Borgen - Power & Glory

Asger Holm Kirkegaard

Foreign Minister Birgitte Nyborg finds her career in jeopardy when a dispute over oil in Greenland threatens to become an international crisis.

7.0

Those Who Kill

Oleg

Based on an original idea by best-selling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm, the series follows the inquiries of a special unit at Copenhagen's police force, consisting of detective inspector Katrina Ries Jensen and forensic psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer. The pair specialise in serial killers that do not fit within traditional behavioural patterns.

4.2

Bryggeren

Teenage Carl Jacobsen

A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.

7.0

The Keeper of Lost Causes

Uffe Lynggaard

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

7.3

A Royal Affair

Christian VII

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

7.8

Land of Mine

Lt. Ebbe Jensen

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

6.3

Stockholm Bloodbath

Didrik Slagheck

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.

6.0

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction

Cazotte

When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal — and unexpected romance.

6.6

Summer of '92

Kim Vilfort

The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

5.5

The Good Traitor

Povl Bang-Jensen

The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.

5.2

Miss Osaka

Lucas

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.

5.7

Man Up!

Rasmus

A small group of men have had enough! Women have gained too much power – they have dominated society for far too long, overtaken men, and left them involuntarily childless. Rasmus has therefore started the secret underground group Man Up. By day, he works in a trade union, and by night, he and his friends are freedom fighters. They are on a mission to restore the natural order from the good old days, when men ruled and women gave birth to their children and cared for them.

5.5

You Disappear

Anklageren

Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges.

5.5

A Serious Game

Carl Lidner

In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.