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Thure Frank Lindhardt was born 24 December 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. At 12, he was cast as the role of the mailman in Negerkys og labre larver (1987), and later that year, he acted as a classmate in Bille August's film Pelle the Conqueror (1987), which, in 1988, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1989, he played the lead role in the "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende in Roskilde, Denmark. But it was a children's play. After the few small roles Thure had played, he realized that he wanted to become a real actor.

Lindhardt graduated from Odense Theatre School in 1998. In 1999, Thure was named recipient of the Reumert Award for Best New Talent. He had roles in two TV productions showing the year 2000, Denmarks Radios The Spider (2000) a TV series where he played the poor boy Billy and in the Lars von Trier-produced family saga Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken (1999).

His first notable role was that of Brian in Her i nærheden (2000), directed by Kaspar Rostrup, written by the novel of the same name of 'Martha Christensen' and produced by Tina Dalhoff. The film featured in the official selection at the 50th Berlin Film Festival. He played the lead as an autistic boy who is suspected of murder, and he received rave reviews for his performance and was named Shooting Star at the festival. This was followed by Shaky González's film One Hell of a Christmas (2002) where he played the part as the young cool criminal Mike. Later in the year 2002, he got the offer to play Slim in the Ballerin brothers' very special modern film Slim Slam Slum (2002). But the film really tested very poorly with the young audiences, and it became a Danish, bottom-10 comedy film. But in 2004, he did an outstanding job in the role of Hans in the German movie Love in Thoughts (2004)--the latter of which brought him to the public's attention.

He is now one of the most critically acclaimed actors of his generation and portrays the weird junkie boy Steso in Ole Christian Madsen's fantastic film Angels in Fast Motion (2005).

Speaks fluent Danish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and is a
little familiar with French.

2000: Named as one of European films &#39;Shooting Stars&#39; by European Film
Promotion.

Is grandson of famous Danish church historian professor <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1573142/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">P.G. Lindhardt</a>
(b. 1910).

Is son of Theologian priest <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1363907/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Mogens Lindhardt</a> (b. 1946).

Member of #ActOut in Spring 2021 and one of 185 Actors who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans*, queer, inter and non-binary, among many other things.

Playing Hamlet in William Shakespeare&#39;s &quot;Hamlet&quot; at
Gladsaxe Ny Teater, Denmark (January 2007)

Is nephew of bishop <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1510124/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Jan Lindhardt</a> (b. 1938) and theologist Tine Lindhardt
(b. 1958).

Attended the drama school at Odense Theatre in 1998.

Lost (18 pounds) 9 kilos for the role as Steso in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0403360/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Angels in Fast Motion (2005)</a>.

Angels and Demons - Los Angeles (August 2008)

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