Ole Thestrup

About Ole Thestrup

Who is it?: Actor, Miscellaneous Crew
Birth Day: March 12, 1948
Birth Place:  Nibe, Denmark, Denmark
Died On: 2 February 2018(2018-02-02) (aged 69)\nTuse Næs, Denmark
Birth Sign: Aries
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1978–2017

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Ole Thestrup was born on March 12, 1948 in  Nibe, Denmark, Denmark, is Actor, Miscellaneous Crew. Ole Thestrup was born on March 12, 1948 in Nibe, Denmark. He is known for his work on Blinkende lygter (2000), Adams æbler (2005) and De grønne slagtere (2003). He was married to Hanne Marie Knudsen. He died on February 2, 2018 in Tuse Næs, Denmark.
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Biography/Timeline

1948

Ole Thestrup was born in Nibe, North Jutland, on 12 March 1948. He initially had ambitions to become a Guitarist, before turning to acting. He joined Aarhus Theatre aged 25, completing his acting training in 1976. He later also worked at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

1982

Thestrup's early television roles included the comedy series Een stor familie (1982–1983) and the 1986 Christmas calendar show Jul på Slottet, in which Politiken described him as being "perfectly cast".

1988

Thestrup had a history of alcohol abuse, which contributed to his 1988 imprisonment in Canada after he caused disruption on board a FLIGHT, leading to an emergency landing. He gave up alcohol in 1998.

1998

Director Anders Thomas Jensen regularly cast Thestrup in his films, beginning with the Academy Award-winning 1998 short Election Night. He also appeared in Jensen's feature films Flickering Lights (2000), The Green Butchers (2003), Adam's Apples (2005) and Men & Chicken (2015).

2000

In the early 2000s he played the role of the Captain in Robert Wilson's adaptation of the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner.

2018

He died on 2 February 2018, in his home in Tuse Næs, following a battle with lung cancer which had stalled his acting career in April 2017.