- Claes Kasper Bang is a Danish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading role of Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square. For that role he won the European Film Award for Best Actor, being the first Dane to do so. He played the role of Sasha Mann in the final series of The Affair.
He graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in 1996 and has worked mainly on stage and in television in Denmark.
Since 2002 he has performed a monologue based on Jan Guillou's novel Evil more than 300 times, including an English-language version at St. James Theatre in London in 2015.
He played the leading role of the art museum curator Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. He also won the European Film Award for Best Actor, being the first Dane to do so. As a side project, he makes music under the moniker This Is Not America.
In November 2018, Bang was cast to play Count Dracula in the BBC mini-series Dracula.
He married the stylist Lis Louis-Jensen in 2010. He is stepfather to her two children, and step-grandfather to her grandson. They reside in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.- IMDb Mini Biography By: ahmetkozan
- SpouseLis Kasper Bang(2010 - present)
- ParentsMimi BangBjarne Bang
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Apart from his native Danish, he's fluent in Swedish, Norwegian, English and German.
- Graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 1996.
- [on The Square (2017)]. The way in which this came about is I didn't actually read the script until I got the part. So at the first casting I was asked to do the speech I give in the museum to the audience. I was asked to write that and perform it. I did that and we kept almost everything that I wrote in the film. And then Ruben (Ruben Östlund) sat me down and he talked me through the whole film. We did improvs of five or six different scenes and that's how I got to know the story.
- [on being cast in The Square (2017)] I went to a regular casting. Well, not that regular because Ruben (Ruben Östlund) is really thorough, so we did three castings for this one - and they were all two or three hours long. The casting director in Denmark is a personal friend of mine, and she told me that she got the task to find an actor for the film. I was like, "Oh my God, that sounds amazing," but I was dead sure that after Ruben's previous film (Force Majeure (2014)), he could get any actor in the world he wanted. I thought it was such a long-shot.
- [on Bond rumors] I really love Daniel Craig in that part. I actually have been talking to Barbara Broccoli, but about another project. I think, if she was thinking along those lines, she probably would have said it. But I don't know. She has said absolutely nothing, so it's just a rumor. I think what started the rumor was this hashtag that started trending '#BangforBond' which does have a ring to it.
- My favorite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn't play him, because he's got this insane quality that's like a wild animal and still sort of frail, fragile. But he's my idol.
- I'm not a method actor. I like to think of myself as an instrument - like a piano you can play. That's in an ideal world but sometimes I'm a bit too opinionated, so I'm not a totally neutral instrument, but I try to be. I have the feeling that if I lose myself too much, I won't be able to take direction. You have to keep a distance in a way and I don't go home devastated.
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