Casper Christensen
Birthday: Born in 1968-08-22 in Kerteminde, Danmark
Deathday: Alive
Casper was born in Birkerød, Denmark in 1968. In 1987, he bought a tape Of American stand up comedian Steve Martin. Casper admired the Oscar-host to-be greatly. As did his co-workers on _Casper & Mandrilaftalen (1999)_, Frank Hvam, Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj, Casper started out in stand-up comedy. His work in this business led to a deal with Danish TV-network DR, and Casper started doing a children's show called Hvaffor en hånd (1991). After doing a couple of shows for the young Danish people, Casper hit the big time with quiz show _"Husk lige tandbørsten" (1994)_, which he hosted, with help from Annette Toftgårdm whom he later married. _"Husk lige tandbørsten" (1994)_ had made Casper the darling of Danish television. A status which was jeopardized with Casper's follow-up: Safari (1996), which he made with his friend Lars Hjortshøj.
TV Credits
Klovn
Character: Casper
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being ...
Casper & Mandrilaftalen
Character: Self - Host
Casper & Mandrilaftalen was a Danish cult TV program aired on DR2 in 1999....
Undskyld, Norge
Character:
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Tæskeholdet
Character: Self - Radio Host
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Deja-vu med Frøkjær
Character: Self
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Langt fra Las Vegas
Character: Casper Christensen
Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003....
Stand-up.dk
Character: Himself
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Zulu Awards
Character: Host
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Casper og drengene fra Brasilien
Character: Self - Host
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Grethe
Character:
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All Exclusive
Character: Self - host
In a new documentary interview experiment, the focus is on the meeting between Casper Christensen and his hand-picked guests - where the viewers get a completely new insight into the lives and personalities of both Casper and the guests....
ZULU Comedy Galla
Character: Vinder af Zulu Comedy Galla Ærespris
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Danish Dynamite
Character:
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Fortidens hemmeligheder
Character: Casper Christensen
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Melvin Kakooza Show
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
The Boss of It All
Character: Gorm
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander....
The Collector
Character: Flemming
A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, gett...
Journey to Saturn
Character: Per Jensen
A Danish crew of misfits travel to Saturn in search for natural resources. However, the planet is colonized by a ruthless army of Aliens that turn their eye on Earth and invade Denmark. Thus, the crew change their mission to liberate Denmark....
Mick Øgendahl: Micktrix
Character: Himself
Micktrix er et one man show af stand-up-komikeren Mick Øgendahl fra 2000...
Casper & Mandrilaftalen 1: Kig
Character: Diverse roller
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Casper & Mandrilaftalen 2: Fisso
Character: Diverse roller
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Klown
Character: Casper
Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all?...
Casper & Frank: Nu som mennesker
Character: Casper
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Player
Character: Theo
Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer (Bjerg), who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue (Christensen)....
The Eclipse
Character: Writer
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novel...
Casper & Mandrilaftalen 3: Momento Huevos
Character:
The 4. and final mandril dvd in the line .....
Klown Forever
Character: Casper
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip....
Zulu Comedy Galla 2011
Character: Casper Christensen
Zulu Comedy Galla is a Danish Comedy Award show shown on TV2 Zulu once a year. At the show the Comedian of the year and "Läkerols Talentpris" are awarded and three new comedians attempts to make it in to the comedy scene....
Hannibal and Jerry
Character: Ismand 2
Hannibal is a nice and polite boy, but Father and Mother think he hangs too much in front of the television. They therefore give him the dog Jerry, whom he is very pleased with. It turns out that Jerry, as the dog is called, is not an ordinary dog, because it can not bark, but on the other hand it can speak. The crafty toy maker Uncle Grandfather and his henchman Uncle Harry would like to grab Jerry, and it involves various conflicts involving a cheeky dog trader, an unlucky glazier and a distin...
Dan Dream
Character: Thorkil Bonnesen
A small group of eccentric pioneers join forces, in order to do the impossible and create world history in the early 1980s of Denmark...
To Each His Own Cinema
Character: (segment "The Last Dating Show")
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century....
The Hustle
Character: Mathias
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."...
Klovn the Final
Character: Casper
The third and final feature based on the acclaimed Danish TV series finds Frank turning 50 so Casper invites him to Iceland on a boys' trip. Naturally, the trip does not go quite as planned....
Zulu Royal
Character: Ekspert i Mary Donaldson og Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Worlds first "Royality Comedy Event". In an unprecedented 9 hour live "piggyback" transmission, comedian quartet Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam, Lars Hjortshøj and Lasse Rimmer of Casper & Mandrilaftalen (1999) fame, marathon-hosted and satirically skewed every imaginable AND unimaginable aspect of the Royal Wedding between HRH's Frederik X and Dronning Mary, on may 14th 2004. Characters included ex-boyfriends, aboriginals, so-called experts, wine-tasters, weathermen and a slew of hilarious off-...