Thure Lindhardt

Thure Lindhardt is a Danish actor who grew up in Roskilde and trained at the drama school of Odense Theatre, finishing in 1998. Aged 12, he appeared in Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror. His breakthrough in Denmark came with A Place Nearby, opposite Ghita Nørby. He went on to work in film and television, including Into the Wild (2007), Flame & Citron (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), Keep the Lights On (2012) and Byzantium (2013). In Flame & Citron, which concerns the resistance group Holger Danske during World War II, he played Bent Faurschou-Hviid alongside Mads Mikkelsen. He played Lieutenant Chartrand in Ron Howard's Angels & Demons. Keep the Lights On premiered at Sundance in 2012 and brought him a Gotham Independent Film Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead. He also played Rufio in The Borgias and detective Henrik Sabroe in The Bridge. He received the Lauritzen Award in 2014.