How old is Mads Mikkelsen?

Mads Mikkelsen is 60 years old, born November 22, 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

What is Mads Mikkelsen's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1965 birth.

What is Mads Mikkelsen's Life Path number?

Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.

What is Mads Mikkelsen's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where is Mads Mikkelsen's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Mads Mikkelsen's dominant planet?

Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen (born November 22, 1965, Copenhagen, Denmark), aged 60, is a Danish actor. Notable films include Doctor Strange, Casino Royale and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Mikkelsen's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, The Game Awards − Best Performance and Silver Shell for Best Actor.

Mads Mikkelsen’s zodiac sign is Scorpio or Sagittarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with Mads

How common is the name Mads in the U.S.?

#3912

US rank in 2025

~254

Americans share it since 2011

2021

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Mads falls under that line for 1965. Its peak came in 2021, and 254 Americans have carried it since 2011.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mads’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · starting things

Soul Urge · closeness

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Mads’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

—

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Botanical green

The record

What sets Mads apart

The Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role came in 2005, when Mads Mikkelsen was 40.

Mads Mikkelsen was 31 when the work began in 1996.

On the family side, Mads Mikkelsen was married Hanne Jacobsen and raised one child.

Scarlett Johansson (1984) and Mark Ruffalo (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (2012), Silver Shell for Best Actor (2020) and Bambi Award (2023)
Nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor and The Game Awards − Best Performance
Working from: 1996
Wikipedia editions: 72

What the chart says

Mads, according to the stars

The vibe

Underneath, Mads feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Mads needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Mads wants to be loved

Mads wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Mads you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Mads creates

How Mads makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Mads creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Mads is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mads is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Mads does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Mads's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mads Mikkelsen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Copenhagen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Mads’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 87.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 49.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Copenhagen that night

Computed for 55.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Copenhagen at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

Copenhagen sits at 55.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −34.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Copenhagen on any night.

Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual Mads's chart is

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · 2 planets at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Mads Mikkelsen at a glance

Scorpio or Sagittarius Sun

Mads Mikkelsen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Mads Mikkelsen was born on November 22, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Mads Mikkelsen's birth date, November 22, 1965, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Mads’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Mads Mikkelsen's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.

Mads’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Scorpio depending on the hour.

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 7.7° orb
Mads’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.1° orb
Mads’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Mads’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrinePluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.9° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus1.8° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.3° to 7.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire1 of 10
Earth4 of 10
Air1 of 10
Water4 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed3 of 10
Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Mads’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 17°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 19°08′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 7°37′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°07′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Ceres opposition Uranus 0.0°
Ceres square Mercury 0.1°
Chiron opposition Pluto 0.3°
Ceres opposition Pluto 0.9°
Chiron square Mercury 1.0°
Ceres trine Neptune 1.0°
Chiron sextile Venus 1.1°
Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
Eros sextile Mars 1.4°
Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.0°
Chiron trine Neptune 2.1°
Ceres sextile Venus 2.2°
Eros conjunction Saturn 2.9°
Hygiea conjunction Uranus 3.0°

Mads’s dominant planets

1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Mads’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
Mars semi-square Neptune 1.1°
Sun quintile Uranus 1.2°
Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°

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Born in Snake years

Daniss JenkinsAmerican basketball player
Khalifa DiopSenegalese basketball player (born 2002)
Patrick WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)

Year of the Snake →

Also born on November 22

Fellow Yang Metal day masters

Darsheel Safarychild artist in Indian showbiz industry, famous for his portrayal of a dyslexic child in Taare Zameen Par
Lianella CarellItalian actress, screenwriter, journalist
Nicholas HammondAmerican actor

What a Day Master is →

Famous people with Life Path 9

Christian BarmoreAmerican football player (born 1999)
TreVeyon HendersonAmerican football player (born 2002)
Alec PierceAmerican football player (born 2000)

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year

Mads’s cards

Computed from November 22, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

9 · Healer

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mads’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q294647 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mads Mikkelsen at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mads Mikkelsen.

Quick answers about Mads Mikkelsen’s chart

How old is Mads Mikkelsen?: Mads Mikkelsen is 60 years old, born November 22, 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
What zodiac sign is Mads Mikkelsen?: Mads Mikkelsen was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is Mads Mikkelsen's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1965 birth.
What is Mads Mikkelsen's Life Path number?: Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Mads Mikkelsen's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Mads Mikkelsen's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Mads Mikkelsen's dominant planet?: Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.