Thure Lindhardt
Danish actor (born 1974)
title: "Thure Lindhardt" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1974-births", "danish-male-film-actors", "living-people", "people-from-roskilde", "danish-gay-actors", "male-actors-from-copenhagen"] description: "Danish actor (born 1974)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thure_Lindhardt" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Danish actor (born 1974) ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox person"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Thure Lindhardt |
| image | Thure Lindhardt (cropped).jpg |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| occupation | Actor |
| years_active | 1987–present |
| :: |
|name = Thure Lindhardt |image = Thure Lindhardt (cropped).jpg |caption = |birth_date = |birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark |occupation = Actor |years_active = 1987–present
Thure Frank Lindhardt (; born 24 December 1974) is a Danish actor.
Life and career
Lindhardt grew up in Roskilde. At the age of 12, he got a part in Bille August's film Pelle the Conqueror. He was educated at the drama school at Odense Theatre in 1998. His breakthrough in Denmark came with his portrayal of a boy with autism in A Place Nearby, co-starring with Ghita Nørby.
Since then, he has played parts in a variety of movies and series, including Into the Wild, Angels in Fast Motion aka Nordkraft, Brotherhood, Love in Thoughts, Sugar Rush, Princess, Rejseholdet, Byzantium and Flame & Citron, a film about the World War II resistance group Holger Danske, in which Lindhardt played Bent Faurschou-Hviid, co-starring with Mads Mikkelsen.
He also played a role as the young Swiss Guard Lieutenant Chartrand in the 2009 film Angels & Demons, directed by Ron Howard.
He co-starred in Ira Sachs's film Keep the Lights On, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012. Later in 2012, he was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor as well as an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
In the third season of Showtime's The Borgias, Lindhardt starred opposite Jeremy Irons, playing Rufio, a ruthless assassin working under Catherina Sforza (portrayed by Gina McKee) to bring about the Borgias' downfall.
In 2012, Lindhardt played a role in the European-Scandinavian TV series The Spiral, and in 2013 he appeared in the feature film Adieu Paris.
In 2014, he received the Lauritzen Award.
In 2015, he played the Danish detective Henrik Sabroe opposite Sofia Helin in season 3 of the Danish-Swedish TV police series The Bridge. He replaced Kim Bodnia as a lead. He reprised the role in the show's fourth and final season, broadcast in early 2018.
Personal life
In May 2010, he broke up with Silas Holst, his boyfriend of two years. In 2017, he became a father to a daughter.
Filmography
::data[format=table]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Negerkys og labre larver | Postbud | |
| Pelle the Conqueror | Student | ||
| 2000 | Her i nærheden | Brian | |
| Juliane | Cykellærling | ||
| 2001 | Far from China | Jeremy | |
| 2002 | One Hell of a Christmas | Mike | |
| Slim Slam Slum | Slim | ||
| Nude, Descending... | RW | ||
| Unit One | Kore | 2 episodes | |
| 2004 | Love in Thoughts | Hans | |
| ** | Julian | ||
| 2005 | Nordkraft | Steso | |
| Bag det stille ydre | Charlie | ||
| 2006 | Princess | August | Voice |
| 2007 | Pistoleros | Krelle | |
| Into the Wild | Mads | ||
| Daisy Diamond | Actor | ||
| 2008 | Reise nach Amerika | ||
| Flame & Citron | Bent Faurschou-Hviid / Flammen | ||
| Blå mænd | Jesper Jensen | ||
| Lille soldat | John | ||
| 2009 | Angels & Demons | Lieutenant Chartrand | |
| De vilde svaner | Prins Albrecht | ||
| Brotherhood | Lars | ||
| Julefrokosten | Frans | ||
| 2010 | Truth About Men | Mads | |
| 2011 | Freddy Frogface | Victor | Voice |
| The Island | Daneel | ||
| 2012 | Keep the Lights On | Erik Rothman | |
| Formentera | Benno | ||
| Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal | Lars | ||
| Gummi T | Ivan Olsen | Voice | |
| Byzantium | Werner | ||
| 2013 | 3096 Days | Wolfgang Přiklopil | |
| Fast & Furious 6 | Firuz | ||
| Adieu Paris | Mika | ||
| The Borgias | Rufio | 10 episodes | |
| 2014 | Itsi Bitsi | Eik's Father | |
| 2015–2018 | The Bridge | Henrik Sabroe | 18 episodes |
| 2016 | Despite the Falling Snow | Dimtri | |
| Kill Command | Damien Bukes | ||
| 2017 | Light Thereafter | Piri | |
| The Last Kingdom | Guthred | 4 episodes | |
| 2018 | Hodja fra Pjort | Hodja | |
| Ditte & Louise | |||
| A War Within | Hansen | ||
| X&Y | |||
| 2019 | ASTRUP - Flammen over Jølster | Nikolai Astrup | |
| 2024 | Jana: Marked for Life | Leo Hansen | |
| :: |
References
References
- Enggaard, Michael. (24 December 2014). "Fødselsdagsportræt af Thure Lindhardt 40 år".
- Washuus, Dorte. (22 December 2014). "Stor kunst med udgangspunkt i et drenget smil".
- Helena, Lindblad. (14 August 2018). "Sommarkommentar 14 augusti: Thure Lindhardt byter karriärsnack mot en existentiell appell". [[Dagens Nyheter]].
- Dannemand, Henrik. (8 May 2009). "Man skal Thure noget".
- "HitFix".
- Wagner, Curt. (29 March 2013). "‘The Borgias’ exclusive: Meet Rufio, the Dark Shadow".
- "The Spiral".
- "Adieu Paris".
- (24 September 2014). "Thure Lindhardt vinder Lauritzen-pris".
- Caroline, Frost. (22 December 2015). "'The Bridge' Star Thure Lindhardt On The Challenge Of Replacing Kim Bodnia, And What's Really Going On Between Henrik And Saga".
- Carstensen, Af Ivar. (1 January 2018). "Thure Lindhardt tilbage på »Broen«: Man skal ramme en nerve, folk kan relatere til".
- Lotte, Scharff. (23 September 2012). "Bruddet med Thure tog hårdt på mig". [[B.T. (tabloid).
- (13 December 2017). "Thure Lindhardt er blevet far for første gang".
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::