Other names Cyron Bjorn Melville Name Cyron Melville Occupation Actor, musician Role Actor | Years active 1995–present Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 ⁄2 in) | |
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Parents Elizabeth Bjorn Nielsen, Johnny Melville Nominations Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Movies A Royal Affair, On The Edge, Fightgirl Ayse, Love and Rage, Life Hits Similar People Mikkel Folsgaard, Natasha Arthy, Semra Turan, Christian E Christiansen, Laura Bro | ||
Music group Bliglad (2003 – 2006) | ||
Cyron melville denmark 2009
Cyron Bjørn Melville (born 1 July 1984) is an award-winning Danish actor and musician.
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- Cyron melville denmark 2009
- Cyron Melville Karriere
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Cyron Melville - Karriere
Early life
Melville was born in Djursland, Denmark, to Scottish comedian Johnny Melville and Danish Elizabeth Bjørn Nielsen.
Career
At the age of ten, Melville gained his first lead role as Frederik in The Beast Within, a feature drama written and directed by Carsten Rudolf. As child actor he has since appeared in several local movies and TV series such as Hallo det er jul, Kik'n Rush and Jul i Valhal.
In Denmark his fame was cemented after playing Oliver Schandorff in the Emmy-nominated local series The Killing. For his supporting role in Natasha Arthy's Fighter, Melville was nominated at the Bodil Awards 2008 and as Idol of the Year at the Boogie Awards. A year after he won the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2009, Melville received an award as Best Actor at the Marrakech International Film Festival and at the Montreal World Film Festival for his performance in danish movie Love and Rage produced by Zentropa. The same role of Daniel earned him multiple nominations at Bodil Awards 2010, at the Robert Awards and at the Zulu Awards.
In 2012 Melville is Enevold Brandt in the historical drama Royal Affair. In the same year he starred in music videos In Love with the World by Aura Dione and Tomgang by Shaka Loveless.
Recently he joined the cast of Showtime period drama The Borgias, created by Neil Jordan and renewed for a third season in 2013.
In addition to his career as actor, Melville is a musician. From 2002 to 2006 was a drummer in reggae danish band Bliglad.
Personal life
Melville speaks Danish, English, Swedish and German.