Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is an actor.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau . Coster-Waldau 's breakthrough performance in Denmark was his role in the film Nightwatch ( 1994 ) . He then played Detective John Amsterdam in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam ( 2008 ) , as well as appearing as Frank Pike in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality , originally intended as a pilot . In 2017 , he became one of the highest paid actors on television and earned # 2 million per episode of Game of Thrones .