# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claes-bang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:01.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claes-bang"
name: "Claes Bang"
slug: "claes-bang"
description: "Claes Kasper Bang is a Danish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading role of Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and for the role of Fjölnir in Robert Eggers's 2022 film The Northman. In 2019, he played the role of Sasha Mann for the final season of The Affair, and he rose to further international recognition by starring as Count Dracula in the BBC/Netflix series Dracula (2020). For his role in The Square, he became the first Dane to win the European Film Award for Best Actor. Bang has also developed a music career under the moniker of This Is Not America."
tagline: "Danish actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claes_Bang_2015-09-10.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.1
  momentum:             2.484198635844239
  historical:           22.586128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "claesbang"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/claesbang/"
    handle:    "claesbang"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051903/"
    handle:    "nm0051903"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump