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He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Spectre. In his home country, Christensen has won four Bodil Awards, three for Best Actor: Did Somebody Laugh? (1978), The Bench (2000), and Manslaughter (2005), and one for Best Supporting Actor: Barbara (1997).
YearTitleRole (s)2020Karl Skov2018Jens2017RobinPierre2016Jesper Christensen. Actor: Spectre. Born 1948 in central Copenhagen. Lived there ever since. Did 25 years of theatre, - like Alceste in the Misanthropist, Richard in Richard lll (solo), Faust in Faust, Astrov in Vanja, a lot of worried men,- stopped doing it in 1998.
- January 1, 1
- 1.80 m
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Biography
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- Behind The Scenes
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Background
Some years prior to the events of Casino Royale, Mr. White got married and spent his wedding night in a hotel in Tangier, L'Américain, to which he and his wife returned every year. He and his wife had a daughter, Madeleine Swann. When she was born, they brought Madeleine with them. Ernst Stavro Blofeld says he once visited the White family home, suggesting that Mr. White was already a high-ranking member of Spectre, and was close to Blofeld. White had been assigned several assassinations prio...
Mr. White is first seen representing Quantum, and brokers a meeting between Le Chiffre and LRA commander Steven Obanno. White introduces them so Le Chiffre can bank $101,206,000 for Obanno. Le Chiffre loses this money, due to Bond's intervention, and plans to cover the loss by winning up to $150 million at the Casino Royale tournament, hoping to do so before Mr. White and Obanno discover he has lost the funds. It is also presumed that Mr. White and Obanno are not notified of the casino tourna...
Mr. White's men pursue Bond in a car chase around Siena in attempt to retrieve their kidnapped boss. Bond manages to shake them off and Mr. White is brought for interrogation by M and subsequent torture. During the interrogation, Mr. White expresses regret that Vesper's suicide prevented his organisation from attaining Bond as an operative, and also mocks M, despite her threatening to torture him should he continue to be uncooperative, and tells her that his organisation has operatives infilt...
Mr. White was the definition of mysterious. Unsmiling, extremely intelligent and a ruthless man to the core, Mr White was a mysterious and callous senior operative within Quantum and SPECTRE. He was not above killing his own allies if they displeased him, and he would stop at nothing to maintain Quantum's reputation. His murder of Le Chiffre clearl...
Casino Royale
According to Jesper Christensen, he was cast as Mr. White in 2006's Casino Royale based almost solely on his show reel and without having to perform a screen test. A total of roughly three weeks were spent filming in France, Pinewood Studios and Lake Como; with a couple of days used for each location. Speaking in a 2007 interview with Bond fansite MI6, Christensen noted "The pacing of Casino Royale was incredible I think – I liked it very much. It surprised me, being so good. They have to kee...
Quantum of Solace
Christensen would reprise his role for the film's 2008 sequel Quantum of Solace. Despite second unit filming beginning in Italy on 16 August 2007, Christensen purportedly still "had no idea" about the possibility of reprising his role when he spoke to MI6 during the same month. Commenting on his experience of Quantum of Solace at its world premiere in London, Christensen described it as "sort of like coming back to school after summer vacation; now you know everybody and you say 'hey, how hav...
Aftermath
In a change of stance, while speaking to press ahead of the premiere of his 2010 Danish film A Family (En Familie) at the Berlin film festival, Christensen said that he was happy that his "interlude as a villain in the James Bond series is over." Explaining his position, the actor said: "Today, I admit that I regard Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace as really shit. All the people die in them, so two movies are enough for me." However, in December 2014 it was confirmed that, despite his prev...
Mr. White's real name is never mentioned or used. His daughter's surname is stated to be Swann, but given Mr. White's highly secretive nature and his desire to protect his daughter, it is extremely...He was given the codename of "The Pale King" in Spectre. "Pale" is a synonym for "white" and "König" means "King" in German.Although Le Chiffre and Dominic Greene served as the main antagonists in their respective films, they both answered to White but as White only appeared in a few scenes in all films, his role in Qua...In an early draft of Spectre, Mr. White recounts how he and Oberhauser were members of a rogue French Foreign Legionunit called "Les Spectres de Pierre". Following a sandstorm, they were part of a...People also ask
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Showing all 8 items. Jump to: Photos (6) Quotes (2) Photos. Quotes. Le Chiffre : [trying to calm an assassin] I'll get the money. Tell them I'll-I'll get the money. Mr. White : Money isn't as valuable to our organization as knowing who to trust. [shoots him] [last lines] Mr. White : [answering his cellphone] Hello? James Bond : Mr. White?
Synopsis. MI6 operative James Bond (Daniel Craig) gains promotion to 00 agent status by assassinating two targets: traitorous section chief Dryden at the British Embassy in Prague and his contact, Fisher. In Uganda, the mysterious Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) (A liaison for an unnamed criminal organization) introduces Steven Obanno (Isaach De ...
Dec 6, 2014 · In an interview with the Danish press (h/t to MI6-HQ ), actor Jesper Christensen, who played Mr. White in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, stated that he'd be back for...
He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and the upcoming Spectre. In his home country, Christensen has won four Bodil Awards, three for Best Actor (Hør, var der ikke en som lo?, Bænken, and Drabet) and one for Best Supporting Actor .
