He's known for Danish movies The Celebration (1998) and the 2011 Academy Award-Winner In a Better World (2010). He played the vilain in The World is not Enough (1999) and appears also in Hitman (2007), The International (2009), Duplicity (2009), Centurion (2010) and The Thing (2011). He's the villain in the Johnny Depp film Mortdecai (2015).