- Actor
- Born: 1970 Denmark
- Annual: GH₵429,236,943.00
- Monthly: GH₵35,769,745.25
- Weekly: GH₵8,254,556.60
- Daily: GH₵1,650,911.32
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993. He became widely known for his role as Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau's breakthrough role in Denmark was in the film Nightwatch (1994).
Wikipedia page about Nikolaj Coster-WaldauHollywood reporter Oct 2018: $1.2 million per episode for the last 6 episodes.
Independent and Express April 2017: Game of Thrones season 7's top five actors are reportedly being paid up to £2 million per episode, which would make them the highest-paid actors in television history - 2017 season contains 6 episodes, or £12 million a year.
Deadline June 2016: The actors will make more than $500,000 per episode in season seven and the potential eighth season. With the usual 10 episodes per season, annual salary would be $5 Million, although speculation has been that both Season 7 and Season 8 would be shorter than the standard for the show 10 episodes.
Mirror Oct. 2014: Games of Thrones biggest stars, amongst them Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, will be paid $300,000 an episode - or $2.1 million per serie, after negotiating new contracts for a seventh season. According to Deadline They negotiated $1 million per episode, or $7 million for the 10th and final season.
Sources
- Picture: Wikipedia
- Text: Deadline
- Text: Independent
- Text: Deadline
- Text: Express
- Text: HOllywood reporter
- Text: Mirror
Update: 2018-10