Mikael Birkkjær

Acting

Mikael Birkkjær

Born

1958-09-14 (68)

Place of birth

København, Danmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

The Killing poster
8.0

The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

The Killing

2007

The Sommerdahl Murders poster
5.9

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

The Sommerdahl Murders

2020

Borgen poster
8.1

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

Borgen

2010

The New Nurses poster
8.0

The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.

The New Nurses

2018

Der Kommissar und das Meer poster
5.6

The focus is on the Gotland investigation team led by Inspector Robert Anders, who originally comes from Germany, his assistants Karin Jacobson and Thomas Wittberg, and the pathologist Ewa, played by Pippi Longstocking actress Inger Nilsson.

Der Kommissar und das Meer

2007

Better Times poster
6.3

The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Better Times

2004

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

The Killing poster
8.0

The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

The Killing

2007

The Sommerdahl Murders poster
5.9

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

The Sommerdahl Murders

2020

Borgen poster
8.1

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

Borgen

2010

The New Nurses poster
8.0

The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.

The New Nurses

2018

Der Kommissar und das Meer poster
5.6

The focus is on the Gotland investigation team led by Inspector Robert Anders, who originally comes from Germany, his assistants Karin Jacobson and Thomas Wittberg, and the pathologist Ewa, played by Pippi Longstocking actress Inger Nilsson.

Der Kommissar und das Meer

2007

Better Times poster
6.3

The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Better Times

2004

Sommer poster
7.6

Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

Sommer

2008

Carmen Curlers poster
6.8

In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

Carmen Curlers

2022

Borgen - Power & Glory poster
8.0

Foreign Minister Birgitte Nyborg finds her career in jeopardy when a dispute over oil in Greenland threatens to become an international crisis.

Borgen - Power & Glory

2022

Oxen poster
6.7

War veteran and former hunter soldier Niels Oxen, Denmark's most decorated soldier ever. Sent home with war trauma, he tries to create meaning in life and to make everyday life fit together.

Oxen

2023

Tinka and the King's Game poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tinka and the King's Game

2019

Danske tv-seriers bedste poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Danske tv-seriers bedste

2024

Mercur poster
8.6

Denmark’s Radio Mercur became the first commercial offshore radio station to broadcast in Europe when it began transmitting from the ship Cheeta in international waters near Copenhagen in 1958. Inspired by true events, its journey from bold beginnings to eventual decline is now being reimagined through following the story of a group of passionate music enthusiasts. Their mission was to challenge the state-run radio monopoly by delivering fresh pop and rock ’n’ roll sounds to a youthful audience eager for new music.

Mercur

2017

Snake Killer poster
9.0

When his informant is killed, Brian "Smiley" Petersen and fellow narcotics officers from the infamous Uropatruljen battle a crime syndicate, using extreme methods that often cross legal boundaries.

Snake Killer

2026

Baby Fever poster
5.4

When a fertility doctor drunkenly inseminates herself with her ex-boyfriend's sperm, she scrambles to explain her pregnancy — and win back her lost love.

Baby Fever

2022

Stockholm Requiem poster
5.8

A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.

Stockholm Requiem

2018

Hostage poster
6.6

When a Nordic Airlines flight to the USA is hijacked, a team of Swedish investigators must race against time to unmask the mysterious hijackers before they bring the airplane down or the US military shoot it out of the sky.

Hostage

2023

Once a Cop... poster
8.3

Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.

Once a Cop...

1987

Matadorerne poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Matadorerne

2023

Begær, Lighed og Broderskab poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Begær, Lighed og Broderskab

1990