Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor, playwright and voice performer. He is best known for playing the lead role of Jaime Lannister in the television series Game of Thrones.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau portrays James Trevelyan, the main protagonist of Dragon Age Inquisition, in both voice, facial scan, and motion capture.
Personal Life[]
Being from Denmark, Nikolaj speaks with a Danish accent in real-life: the upper-class English accent that he adopts when portraying James Trevelyan is not his natural speaking voice, but a conscious part of his performance.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is married and has two daughters. His wife Nukaaka Coster-Waldau (née Sascha Nukaka Motzfeld) was Miss Greenland in the 1990 Miss Universe competition, and she is of mixed Inuit and Norwegian extraction. Nikolaj enjoys the outdoors, including mountain biking. Once he went fishing alone in southern Greenland's wilds (Greenland is an autonomous country within the realm of Denmark).