Mads Mikkelsen Net Worth

Mads Mikkelsen's Quotes

• [on the fact that he is voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" over and over] I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".
• I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
• [on his 1937 Danish Nimbus motorcycle] It is like something Steve McQueen would ride. I love the freedom and it doesn't go quite as fast as a modern bike, which pleases my wife.
• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises. Let's put it this way: compromises are from hell.
• I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.

Interesting Facts about Mads Mikkelsen

1. Younger brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen.
2. Two children, Viola and Carl.
3. Several polls in girl magazines and newspapers have voted him "sexiest man in Denmark".
4. His favourite movie is Taxi Driver (1976).
5. The Danish magazine Woman voted him "the sexiest man in the world".
6. He was a professional dancer for 8 years.
7. Son of Henning Mikkelsen.
8. Brother-in-law of actress Anette Støvelbæk.
9. Mads is pronounced like 'mas' in Christmas. Mikkelsen is 'mikkel' as you would pronounce the metal 'nickel' and 'sen' is pronounced 'zen' - Mickelzen.
10. Speaks Swedish fluently and has lived in Gothenburg for many years.
11. Learned Swedish during his 1-year-long dance training in Göteborg because he grew tired of Swedes only smiling and nodding at him when he spoke to them in Danish.
12. A keen motorcyclist owning a rare 1937 Danish Nimbus.
13. Mads is a form of Matthew; meaning "Gift of God".
14. Wasn't a James Bond fan before starring in Casino Royale (2006).
15. Knighted on April 16th 2010 by Her Majesty Margrethe 2nd, Queen of Denmark.
16. Plays Le Chiffre, the villain of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (2006). Fleming's final Bond novel was The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the villain and title character of which was played by Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee. Mikkelsen and Lee have also both played Count Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (1973)/The Three Musketeers (2011).
17. Received an award at the Cannes Film Festival from Gong Li. Mikkelsen plays Hannibal Lecter in the NBC series Hannibal (2013), Li played Lady Murasaki (Lecter's aunt and lover) in Hannibal Rising (2007).
18. The first Danish actor to play Hannibal Lecter. He is also the tallest of the four actors to play Lecter to date.
19. USA: Playing lead role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in NBC thriller Hannibal (2013), based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. [April 2013]
20. Shooting the Danish movie Adam's Apples (2005). [August 2004]