BIO

ABOUT
Mads is a seasoned actor with a rich international background and career. He started his journey at The National Danish School of Performing Arts and later trained in Vienna, NYC, and LA. Growing up trilingual, Mads speaks English (both British and American), Danish, plus a mix of multiple European accents.

TV
Mads has a solid lineup of Danish and German TV credits and has been a series regular on several award winning shows in both countries. His first break came as a tough cop with a heart of gold in one of Germany’s all time most popular shows City Police Station or Grossstadtrevier  (ARD). He later made a splash in the post-apocalyptic drama The Island (HBO MAX) as a gritty, troubled drug dealer and in the LGBTQI+ dramedy All You Need (Netflix) as a closeted family man exploring his true self.

This year he is stepping into some exciting leading roles, including a paraplegic doctor in The Eifel Clinic (ARD Degeto), and a powerful billionaire in the second season of the award-winning show Days That Never Were for ARD Germany

For TV2 Denmark, he can be seen in the Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg’s much anticipated tv-series Families Like Ours, in The Summerdahl Murders as the prime murder suspect, and in The Secrets of Bispebjerg Hospital as a sadistic Gestapo villain.

Moreover he has recently landed his first role in an American TV-Show (TBA) produced by Universal and CBS Television.

FILM
Mads traverses effortlessly between drama and comedy, and has recently taken on leading roles in November 2nd and Soap Angels (2024), and voiced the main antagonist in the independant film The Lonely Killer about the terrorist strike in Denmark in 2015.  Moreover, he has starred in The Angel Maker directed by Esben Tønnesen (2023), Out of the Darkness directed by Anders Refn (2022), and the award-winning short film The Deportation of a Model Citizen (2022). In the past he has also collaborated with the two Oscar-nominated directors, Jan Komasa and Nikolaj Arcel, in Warsaw 44 and A Royal Affair.

STAGE
For nearly a decade, Mads was a part of the innovative Mungo Park Group Theatre, starring in several pioneering productions, some featured at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has also tackled classic roles from Shakespeare to Chekhov, Ibsen, and Molieré at major Danish repertoire theatres. in addition, he dabbles with musicals and concerts, most recently as the antagonist in David Bowie’s Lazarus at The Royal Danish Playhouse.

VOICE ACTING
As one of Denmark’s top VO Artists , Mads is the voice behind thousands of commercials, audiobooks, documentaries, animated films, award shows, video games (including motion capture) etc. Internationally he recently voiced and physicalized a leading character in the upcoming MMORPG sequel Kingdom Come Deliverance II (Warhorse Games), due to release in 2025.

TRIVIA
When he’s not acting, Mads loves action sports like mountain biking, climbing, and skiing. He also enjoys going to town on the drums and his guitar, whenever he gets the chance.

The surname “Hjulmand” means “Wheelman” or maker-of-cartwheels, the family’s profession for ages. The name was granted to Mads’ great-great-grandfather as a token of honor by King Christian IX.

Mads Hjulmand