
At the age of 27, he enrolled at National Theatre School of Denmark. He graduated in 1994. Apart from his role in the drama series The Killing, 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 the blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen. He played the Russian president in the American TV show House of Cards. He won an International Emmy Award in 2018 for his role in Danish television drama Herrens Veje, which was broadcast in the UK in 2019 as Ride on the Storm.In addition to his home country of Danish, Mikkelsen speaks fluent Swedish, German and English and has learned different accents. He has said that he and his brother first picked up English by listening to Monty Python records and learning the comedy sketches.
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