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David Dencik
Born: 31st Oct 1974 Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Dept: Acting
Karl David Sebastian Dencik (born 31 October 1974) is a Swedish-Danish actor. He has acted in both Swedish and Danish films, and has also had major roles in English-language films and series including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Top of the Lake (2017), McMafia (2018), Chernobyl (2019), and the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021).
Dencik is a two-time Robert Award winner, for Best Actor in a Leading Role for A Soap (2006) and Robert Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Television Role for The Chestnut Man (2021). He won a Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Perfect Patient (2019). He is also a seven-time Bodil Award nominee.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 110
Film: 67 (61%)
Television: 43 (39%)
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Filmography
2026
Follow the terrifying descent into hell of a promising Hollywood actor who has become a monster driven by revenge, exploring the loss of identity and ... view
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2026
The comedy-mystery centers on Helge, a prime suspect in the theft of millions. What follows is a narrow trash can escape and the acquaintance of an ob ... view
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Helge (voice)
Jul 2025 (first aired)
Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed w ... view
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Jasper de Voogdt (6 ep.)
Original title: Begyndelser
2025
Ane and Thomas are in the middle of a divorce - when Ane suddenly suffers a stroke. They decide to stay together until Ane gets back on her feet, but ... view
Character:
Thomas
Apr 2025 (first aired)
The cum-ex scandal has caused 146 billion euros in losses in several countries. Inspired by true events, two women from Germany and Denmark are trying ... view
Character:
Niels Jensen (8 ep.)
2025
The conductor starts a symphony by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén in front of a sea of graying heads. But playing to an aging crowd is provin ... view
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Dirigent
Original title: Du behöver inte vara rädd
2024
A tormented photographer makes a comeback with freshly taken photos at the very location where his son once disappeared. During the exhibition, visito ... view
Character:
Magnus Rentorp
Oct 2024 (first aired)
In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels. As the nation prepares to leave their homes, high school stude ... view
Character:
Peter (4 ep.)
Apr 2024 (first aired)
Playwright Lars Norén's daring play "7:3" involves long-convicted criminals playing themselves. Initially praised for rehabilitation prospects, safet ... view
Character:
Lars Norén (3 ep.)
Original title: Tillsammans 99
2023
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's ... view
Character:
Peter Steen
Sep 2023 (first aired)
Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert are prison officers and colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison. Their work environment is raw and hostile, and ... view
Character:
Henrik (6 ep.)
Jul 2023 (first aired)
As an agent for some of the top names in music and film, Johan’s job is to solve his clients’ private and professional problems. Chronically overs ... view
Character:
David Dencik (1 ep.)
Original title: Kysset
2022
A romantic drama set in Denmark in 1913, the story follows Anton, a noble and conscientious young man whose top priority is to complete his training a ... view
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Dr. Faber
Oct 2022 (first aired)
30-year-old Mathilda is on the verge of perfect adulthood with a job at a law firm and a stable relationship. But when her boyfriend proposes, an aval ... view
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Nathan (8 ep.)
2022
A dark and funny celebration of midsummer where a bunch of old friends get together. ... view
Character:
Håkan
Original title: Natten har øjne
2022
Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja retur ... view
Character:
Lev
2022
As miscommunication and temptations abound, a couple's once-passionate marriage slowly unravels, narrated through humorous dioramas. ... view
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Björn
Original title: Svart krabba
2022
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo. ... view
Character:
Colonel Raad
Mar 2022 (first aired)
As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must u ... view
Character:
Colonel Stok (6 ep.)
2021
Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challeng ... view
Character:
Self
Sep 2021 (first aired)
At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child ... view
Character:
Simon Genz (6 ep.)
2021
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns ... view
Character:
Valdo Obruchev
Nov 2020 (first aired)
A married consultant and a young IT tech kick off a flirty game that challenges societal norms — and leads them to re-evaluate their entire lives. ... view
Character:
Filip (1 ep.)
2020
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals a ... view
Character:
The Clerk
2019
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, t ... view
Character:
Lars
Nov 2019 (first aired)
Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stak ... view
Character:
Rylander (8 ep.)
Original title: Quick
2019
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. H ... view
Character:
Thomas Quick
May 2019 (first aired)
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women ... view
Character:
Mikhail Gorbachev (5 ep.)
Apr 2019 (first aired)
After a tragedy at a school sends shock waves through a wealthy Stockholm suburb, a seemingly well-adjusted teen finds herself on trial for murder. ... view
Character:
Peder Sander (6 ep.)
Jun 2018 (first aired)
When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a ... view
Character:
Mikkel (6 ep.)
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate ... view
Character:
Boris Godman (2 ep.)
2017
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman. ... view
Character:
Vetlesen
Apr 2017 (first aired)
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, cau ... view
Character:
Niels Bohr (3 ep.)
Mar 2017 (first aired)
In 1967, two brothers from Copenhagen, Denmark, wind up in an orphanage, where the headmaster's cruel tyranny slowly provokes the kids to push back. ... view
Character:
Inspektør Hartmann (3 ep.)
Original title: Fuglene over sundet
2016
Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943. ... view
Character:
Arne Itkin
Original title: Der kommer en dag
2016
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgott ... view
Character:
Inspektør Hartmann
Original title: Tordenskjold & Kold
2016
Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn't know what to do with ... view
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Dr. Mabuse
Jan 2016 (first aired)
'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people who are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex ... view
Character:
Simon Absolonsen (10 ep.)
Jan 2016 (first aired)
Tv-series based on the novels "Gentlemen" and "Gangsters" by Klas Östergren.
Bruised, the author Klas barricades himself in the eccentric Henry Morg ... view
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Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Nov 2015 (first aired)
The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and ' ... view
Character:
Guillaume van Reeth (6 ep.)
2015
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u ... view
Character:
John Gray
2015
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a r ... view
Character:
Ab Doderer
Original title: Mænd & høns
2015
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves an ... view
Character:
Gabriel
2014
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and ch ... view
Character:
Henry Morgan
2014
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon ... view
Character:
Buchanan
Original title: Fasandræberne
2014
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a loc ... view
Character:
Ulrik Dybbøl
Original title: Kapgang
2014
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy ... view
Character:
Pelli
2014
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, indepen ... view
Character:
Thor Svendsen
2013
The lives of five seemingly unrelated lost souls intertwine in Sweden’s chilly capital in this delicate and wryly funny ensemble film. A precocious ... view
Character:
Coletho
Original title: Hotell
2013
Erika is mentally bruised and starts group therapy with people seeking absolute anonymity. ... view
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Rikard
Original title: Vi är bäst!
2013
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead. ... view
Character:
Klara's Father
Mar 2013 (first aired)
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases. ... view
Character:
Alexander "Puss" (6 ep.)
2012
A man takes law into his own hands after the search for his daughter's murderer and rapist fails and instead the police go after him. ... view
Character:
Åklagaren
2012
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and pri ... view
Character:
Aspen Thorin
Original title: Uskyld
2012
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of ... view
Character:
Ruud
Original title: En kongelig affære
2012
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever. ... view
Character:
Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Original title: Hamilton - I nationens intresse
2012
Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudde ... view
Character:
Tomas Tideman
2012
About Lillemor Östlin in the 60s and 70s. Her downfall from the glamorous Stockholm nightlife to drug addiction, crime and prostitution. ... view
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The King
2011
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg ... view
Character:
Base Camp Officer
2011
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto ... view
Character:
Young Gustaf Morell
Original title: Værelse 304
2011
In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A ... view
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2011
They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truth ... view
Character:
Richard
2011
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole ... view
Character:
Toby Esterhase
2011
Thomas, a Danish gay man, is unable to adopt in his home country. He visits a friend in Brazil to explore the possibility of bringing home a child. Ev ... view
Character:
Jacob
Original title: Frit fald
2011
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar S ... view
Character:
Marcel
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where h ... view
Character:
Cardinal Orsini (2 ep.)
Mar 2011 (first aired)
Based on an original idea by best-selling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm, the series follows the inquiries of a special unit at Copenhagen's police f ... view
Character:
Lars Werner (2 ep.)
Dec 2010 (first aired)
Elizabeth Meyer and Charlotte Ekeblad are the team that will win back power for the Social Democrats. Party chairman Meyers is exposed to threats from ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
2010
”Cornelis” is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden’s greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an excep ... view
Character:
Fred Åkerström
Original title: Fröken Märkvärdig & Karriären
2010
Miss Remarkable's struggle with her own demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown. ... view
Character:
Boyfriend (voice)
Original title: Indrivaren
2010
A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer ... view
Character:
Leo
Mar 2010 (first aired)
Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide. ... view
Character:
Janne Dahlman (2 ep.)
Dec 2009 (first aired)
In 1989, seven radical left-wing activists were charged of being behind a series of the most professional robberies in the history of Denmark. The man ... view
Character:
Niels Jørgensen (5 ep.)
Original title: Broderskab
2009
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to f ... view
Character:
Jimmy
2009
Henry has been acting the human chameleon all his life - a pale reflection of other people's expectations. One day Henry's best friend Jon talks him i ... view
Character:
Jon
Original title: Vanvittig forelsket
2009
Daniel is a very talented piano student and loves Sofie, but he is terrified by the thought of losing her and accuses her of seeing another man. Every ... view
Character:
Christian A. Madsen
Original title: Män som hatar kvinnor
2009
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a mi ... view
Character:
Janne Dahlman
Jan 2009 (first aired)
The story of 'Those Half Hidden' is like a tapestry, in which the threads run obliquely between four different families in two different decades. Weav ... view
Character:
Abbe (4 ep.)
Jan 2009 (first aired)
The Danish national police branch PET is in charge of personal protection, mainly of politicians and royal family. That also involves preventive work ... view
Character:
Dexter (2 ep.)
Character:
Kasper Schmidt
Original title: Vampyrer
2008
Vera and Vanja, two vampire sisters, are forced to run for their lives, when Vera kills the leader of a biker-gang in a night club. While escaping fro ... view
Character:
Taxidriver
Original title: Kandidaten
2008
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throw ... view
Character:
Michael
Jan 2008 (first aired)
Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam ... view
Character:
Bjørn (1 ep.)
Original title: De unge år
2007
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, ... view
Character:
Zelko
2007
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has ... view
Character:
Jens
Sep 2007 (first aired)
How Soon Is Now? is a 2007 Swedish drama television serial directed by Mikael Marcimain. The narrative portrays four people who grow up Gothenburg bet ... view
Character:
Göran (4 ep.)
2007
Helena lives with her husband and children but secretly has a lover. She has decided to end the relationship, but her last meeting with her lover come ... view
Character:
Josef
Original title: Uden for kærligheden
2007
Shmuli is alone with his 5 years old son and lives with his parents. He works as security guard to make money to fulfill his dream of moving to USA. H ... view
Character:
Shmuli
Apr 2007 (first aired)
Helena lives with her husband and children but secretly has a lover. She has decided to end the relationship, but her last meeting with her lover come ... view
Character:
Josef (2 ep.)
Original title: Allt om min buske
2007
All About My Bush is a romantic comedy set in a garden environment, about unexpected love affairs and abysmal jealousy. The beautiful and wealthy coup ... view
Character:
Henning
Jan 2007 (first aired)
The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team ... view
Character:
VVS mand (1 ep.)
2006
Emmalou works as a waitress on a cruise ship filled with lonely people. She mourns the loss of her boyfriend who died in an accident the previous year ... view
Character:
Eric
2006
Istedgade is told in four stories that take place on the same day in or around Istedgade in Copenhagen and together form a lyrical portrait of the cit ... view
Character:
Original title: En soap
2006
32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs ne ... view
Character:
Veronica
Feb 2006 (first aired)
A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son. ... view
Character:
Tyv (1 ep.)
Nov 2005 (first aired)
The series follows the events during the fall and winter of 1991–92, when John Ausonius shot a total of eleven people with an immigrant background. ... view
Character:
John Ausonius (3 ep.)
Apr 2005 (first aired)
Ralf is coaching a successful div III soccer-team, when his key player Rickard gets involved in a drug jam. Ralf tries to help him, but instead finds ... view
Character:
Freddy (3 ep.)
Feb 2005 (first aired)
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show ... view
Character:
Bud fra Årstiderne (1 ep.)
Jan 2005 (first aired)
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1 ... view
Character:
Leo (1 ep.)
Oct 2004 (first aired)
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai B ... view
Character:
Nikki (1 ep.)
Original title: Babylonsjukan
2004
When Maja's boyfriend travels to India for a couple of months, she is left with no place to stay. She begins lodging with Mattias, a young unemployed ... view
Character:
Stefan
2003
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for ... view
Character:
Bartender
Nov 1994 (first aired)
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, b ... view
Character:
Bosse (3 ep.)