Roland Møller

Biography

Roland Møller (born 1972) is a Danish actor whose career spans Scandinavian art-house cinema and international action productions. Since his emergence in the first decade of the 2000s, he has become one of the most recognisable Danish performers of his generation.

Before turning to acting, Møller grew up in a criminal environment in Odense. He accumulated several assault convictions and served a total of four and a half years in prison, before being released on parole on the condition that he leave the city in 2002. He then attended Den Rytmiske Højskole, a music folk high school, moved to Copenhagen, and worked as a songwriter with the rapper Jokeren.

His film debut came with R (2010), a prison drama directed by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer and shot at Horsens State Prison, where he had himself been held. He began as a consultant, and Lindholm offered him a role, which earned him Bodil Award nominations. He reunited with Noer for Nordwest (2013), which won him the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and then led Land of Mine (2015), for which he received the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. International titles such as Atomic Blonde and Skyscraper followed, placing his Danish work alongside global action cinema.

Key films

• R (2010): film debut, first as a consultant and then as an actor in a prison drama.
• Nordwest (2013): directed by Michael Noer, it earned him the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
• Land of Mine (2015): his first leading role, for which he won the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• Atomic Blonde (2017): appearance in a big-budget espionage thriller.
• Skyscraper (2018): appearance in a large-scale action production.