---
name: "Yorick van Wageningen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yorick-van-wageningen"
fi1m_id: "yorick-van-wageningen"
imdb_id: "nm0905691"
tmdb_id: 31387
wikidata_id: "Q1853085"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 April 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:11:02.630528+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yorick van Wageningen

## Identity

Yorick van Wageningen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yorick-van-wageningen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yorick-van-wageningen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0905691
- **TMDB ID:** 31387
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1853085
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_van_Wageningen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1853085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31387

Actor. Born 16 April 1964 in Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 April 1964, Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_van_Wageningen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1853085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31387

## Coming up

- *Downtown* (2026-10-01)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yorick van Wageningen is a Dutch actor born on 16 April 1964 in Baarn, Utrecht. He began his career in Dutch theatre, films and television series in the late 1980s.

He was invited to Hollywood for a role in Steven Spielberg's *Minority Report* (2002) but visa difficulties prevented his participation. He subsequently appeared in several American productions, with a breakthrough role as The Guv in *The Chronicles of Riddick* (2004). Other credits include *The New World* (2005), *The Way* (2010), *47 Ronin* (2013), *Blackhat* (2015) and *Papillon* (2017).

In the Netherlands he starred in *Winter in Wartime* (2008). He played Nils Bjurman in the 2011 remake of *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* (2011), Fi1m 74, as Nils Bjurman — [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Downtown* (2026), Actor
- *Hokwerda's Child* (2024), as Father Hokwerda
- *The Crash* (2022), series, as Pierre Heijboer
- *Mayor of Kingstown* (2021), series, as Konstantin
- *The Judgement* (2021), as Michael de Jong
- *Promise of Pisa* (2019), as Pluizebol
- *Escape Room* (2019), as Games Master WooTan Yu
- *Papillon* (2017), as Warden Barrot
- *Storm: Letter of Fire* (2017), as Klaas Voeten
- *Broker* (2015), as Our Man
- *Blackhat* (2015), as Sadak
- *Last Summer* (2014), as Alex
- *47 Ronin* (2013), as Kapitan
- *The Resurrection of a Bastard* (2013), as Ronnie
- *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* (2011), as Nils Bjurman — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo.md)
- *The Way* (2010), as Joost
- *De Troon* (2010), series, as Willem I
- *Winter in Wartime* (2008), as Uncle Ben
- *Kunststof TV* (2008), series, Actor
- *The Blue Hour* (2007), as Avo
- *Night Run* (2006), as Taxichauffeur
- *The New World* (2005), as Captain Argall
- *A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper* (2005), as Julian Lephrenic
- *The Chronicles of Riddick* (2004), as The Guv
- *Beyond Borders* (2003), as Steiger
- *The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp* (2003), Actor
- *The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story* (2003), as Julian Lephrenic
- *The Commander* (2003), series, Actor
- *Deserter* (2002), as Schreiber
- *Me and Morrison* (2001), as Jan
- *Soul Assassin* (2001), as Local Inspector
- *Total Loss* (2000), as Reinier
- *Frenchman's Creek* (1998), as Van Basten
- *Angie* (1993), as Kick
- *Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden* (1990), series, as Ben Veerman
- *12 steden, 13 ongelukken* (1990), series, as David Zomer
- *Wild Hearts* (1989), as Handlanger

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