Thomas Bo Larsen Biography: Awards, Wife, Age, Religion, Parents, Divorce, Net Worth, Ethnicity

Thomas Bo Larsen is a Danish actor best known for the hard-edged, unsettling, and sometimes darkly funny characters he has brought to life in modern Danish cinema and TV drama.

He became widely recognized through his close collaboration with director Thomas Vinterberg, especially as Mikael in The Celebration (Festen), and later as Theo in The Hunt and Tommy in Another Round, with the latter earning the film’s lead quartet a major acting prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Profile

• Full name: Thomas Bo Larsen
• Date of birth: 27 November 1963
• Age: 62 years old
• Gender: Male
• Place of birth: Gladsaxe, Denmark
• Nationality: Danish
• Profession: Actor
• Height: 1.81 m
• Parents: N/A
• Siblings: N/A
• Spouse: Patricia Schumann (m. 2001; divorced)
• Children: Esther Thomas and Albert Thomas
• Relationship status: Engaged to Kirsten Vernon
• Religion: Christian
• Ethnicity: Danish
• Net worth: $3 million

Early Life and Education

Thomas Bo Larsen is now 62 years old. He was born on 27 November 1963 in Gladsaxe and spent formative years around Værebroparken and the wider Gladsaxe area. Family details such as his parents and any siblings are not public at this time.

Before acting became his profession, Larsen trained and worked as a glazier. His move into performance was not presented as a straight line; it included practical work, short educational stops, and learning his craft by doing it rather than by building a public myth about it.

His formal acting education was at the Acting School at Odense Theatre (Skuespillerskolen ved Odense Teater), where he studied from 1986 to 1990.

Personal Life

Thomas Bo Larsen was married to the Danish actress Patricia Schumann (born in 1975). They were married in July 2001 and have since divorced. He is a father of two; a daughter named Esther and a younger son named Albert.

Thomas Bo Larsen is engaged to a woman named Kirsten Vernon, a communications consultant whom he met through mutual friends. He proposed to her in February 2020 while on holiday in Tenerife, and the couple currently lives in Copenhagen.

Career

Thomas Bo Larsen’s acting career is often explained through one defining creative partnership: his long-running collaboration with Danish director Thomas Vinterberg.

According to the Danish Film Institute, their work together stretches from Vinterberg’s early films to a series of landmark titles in modern Danish cinema—The Biggest Heroes, The Celebration, The Hunt, and Another Round.

Across these projects, Larsen’s appeal became clear: he’s an actor who can shift convincingly between volatility and vulnerability, defensiveness and warmth, comedy and menace.

Instead of pushing audiences toward a simple moral verdict, his performances tend to make characters feel human—messy, contradictory, and real—even when they’re difficult to like.

While the Vinterberg link is the headline, Larsen’s filmography is broader than one director. He took prominent roles in well-known Danish productions across different tones and genres, from crime and social realism to family comedies and mainstream disaster storytelling.

The Danish Film Institute points to his work in series and films such as Taxa, Ambulance, The Idealist, and Follow the Money as part of the same long-running professional identity: an actor who stays busy, shows up prepared, and fits naturally into ensemble casts.

Awards recognition followed across multiple stages of his career. In the 1990s, he collected major Danish honors connected to The Biggest Heroes and The Celebration, reflecting both his rise as a leading man and his ability to land a supporting role with real weight.

Later, his work in Follow the Money earned top Danish TV acting recognition, and Another Round brought him a share of a major international acting award at San Sebastián alongside the film’s other leads.

Awards and Nominations

• Bodil Awards nomination, Best Supporting Actor, Sidste time (1995)
• Robert Award, Best Actor in a Leading Role, De største helte / The Biggest Heroes (1996)
• Robert Award, Best Supporting Actor, Festen / The Celebration (1998)
• Robert Award, Best Actor – TV Series, Bedrag / Follow the Money (2016)
• Silver Shell for Best Actor (shared), Another Round (2020)

Net Worth

Thomas Bo Larsen’s net worth is estimated at $3 million. This estimate reflects decades of paid work across feature films and long-running television series.

Social Media

• Instagram: @thomasbolarsen

Filmography

• De skrigende halse (1993)
• The End (1993)
• Frihedens skygge (1994)
• Final Hour / Sidste time (1995)
• Fæhår & Harzen (1995)
• Ondt blod (1996)
• De største helte / The Biggest Heroes (1996)
• Riget II (1997)
• GUFOL-Mysteriet (1997)
• Royal Blues (1997)
• Chock. Liftarflickan (1997)
• Albert (1998)
• I Wonder Who’s Kissing You Now? (1998)
• Angel of Night (1998)
• Festen / The Celebration (1998)
• Love at Last Hiccup (1999)
• Gone with the Fish (1999)
• En verdensomsejling under bordet (1999)
• Bag om Svendsen (1999)
• Flænset (1999)
• Edderkoppen (2000)
• Flickering Lights / Blinkende lygter (2000)
• Her i nærheden (2000)
• The Wake (2000)
• Miracle (2000)
• D-Dag (2001)
• Grev Axel (2001)
• Fukssvansen (2001)
• Monas verden (2001)
• It’s All About Love (2002)
• Hjerteafdelingen (2002)
• Humørkortstativsælgerens søn (2002)
• Torremolinos 73 (2003)
• Se dagens lys (2003)
• The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear (2003)
• Better Times (2004)
• Den gode strømer (2004)
• Min far er bokser (2004)
• Dear Wendy (2005)
• The Sun King (2005)

Books

• Fri mand – farvel til druk, stoffer og dæmoner (2023)