Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen

Acting

Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen

Born 2000-07-13 · Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles in the Netflix series The Rain and Borgen – Power & Glory. In 2022, he starred in the Netflix multilingual mystery-science fiction series 1899. Description above from Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Weight poster
NR

When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

The Weight

2026

The Keeper of Lost Causes poster
7.0

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

The Keeper of Lost Causes

2013

Paradise poster
6.5

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

Paradise

2023

The Patron poster
NR

The cleaner moves like a nameless shadow on the fringes of cultural capital. When one of her employers — a wealthy art benefactor — leaves town, the door to another life suddenly opens, allowing her to step forward as someone more intriguing, someone whose name is met with admiration and respect. Two young art students are quick to be charmed by the power player she pretends to be, and together they embark on a tantalizing dance through the night, where the boundaries between art and exploitation blur and the truth waits just around the corner.

The Patron

2026

Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace poster
6.3

Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a plane in a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire from his enemies after he leads UN troops into their first wartime operation.

Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace

2023

Desperate Journey poster
8.3

The true story of Freddie Knoller, a young Jewish man who flees Vienna following the Nazi occupation in 1938 and finds solace in the vibrant world of Paris's burlesque scene.

Desperate Journey

2025

The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard poster
6.5

When a girl raised by wolves is found in the woods, she is subjected to a series of tests and examinations in a lab. After two environmentalists free her because they see her as a potential saviour of the world, she must learn to stand on her own two feet and make her own choices

The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard

2026

Special Unit - The First Murder poster
7.1

Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes. Soon, Otto finds himself not only battling powerful enemies but also confronting his own dark side in his quest to solve the case.

Special Unit - The First Murder

2025

I stykker poster
2.0

During an apocalypse brought about by artificial intelligence, electrician Victor finds himself separated from his girlfriend Sara in an underground bunker.

I stykker

2015

Reckless poster
NR

Vildare is a short film about a chaotic drinking game invented by a group of young men. The rules are simple: before rolling a shared die, each player sets themselves a challenge—if they roll a six, they must complete it. As the game unfolds, the dares grow increasingly unpredictable, revealing the group’s shifting dynamics and the blurred line between play, pressure, and control.

Reckless

2025

Player poster
4.2

Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer, who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue.

Player

2013

A Favor poster
8.0

David has made an agreement to help his older brother Jonas out of the criminal underground. The task is simple. Go up to the apartment, clean up and get rid of the body... However, it's far from everything that’s going as planned. What’s that sound? Is the body dead at all?

A Favor

2019

Making 1899 poster
6.7

Go behind the scenes and see how the creators of "Dark" used groundbreaking virtual technology "The Volume" to shoot their new mystery series.

Making 1899

2022

Laundry poster
NR

A young man is horrified, by an event recorded on his tape recorder.

Laundry

2018

Sail On, My Love poster
4.5

Villiam goes on a trip to a vacation house with Bjørn and his friends only to discover that things are not the way they used to be between them, and that Bjørn has invited him for a very specific reason.

Sail On, My Love

2021

Salmon poster
6.5

The young chef August has big dreams and gets the chance in a recognized Michelin kitchen. He is tested professionally and mentally by the kitchen's harsh, uncompromising and eccentric head chef, but at the same time has towering expectations of himself. It creates a cavalcade of problems and lies over the course of an evening.

Salmon

2024

Cataract poster
6.2

A desperate woman robs a gas station with her nearly-blind younger brother and catapults herself into deep water in order to pay for his cataract surgery.

Cataract

2023