
At the age of 27, he entered the National Theatre School of Denmark. He graduated in 1994. He was also featured in The Killing, a drama series that was aired across the globe. He later appeared in Those Who Kill II and Borgen III, two other highly acclaimed Danish drama series. He also had an important part in Sherlock which is a BBC drama in which his character was Charles Augustus Magnussen, whose blackmailer. In the American TV series House of Cards, his character was the president of Russia. He won an International Emmy Award for 2018 for his role on the Danish television drama Herrens Veje. It was shown in the UK in 2019 under the name Ride Upon the Storm. Mikkelsen is fluent in English, Swedish, German and Danish in addition to his mother tongue. He has also developed many accents. According to Mikkelsen's sources, he and his brother learned English through Monty Python records.
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