Nikolaj Waldau

• Birthday: July 27, 1970

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s name may have been hard to pronounce, yet his European good looks were easy on the eyes and the American TV audience took to him immediately. The hunky actor appeared in several movies in his native Denmark before making a splash on American television with his role as John Amsterdam, a man who was cursed with a spell of immortality, in the FOX series “New Amsterdam” (2008). On the big screen, Coster-Waldau also worked twice with esteemed director Ridley Scott who recognized Coster-Waldau’s star power; first in �…more