Niels Anders Thorn was born in the little town of Søborggård in the city Gladsaxe in Denmark. When he was young he liked acting and decided upon it as a future career. He applied to the Aarhus Teater in 1976 and finished his education in 1980. He took part in many theater plays. 10 years later he started working as a film actor, and his debut was a co-starring role as a English man in the Danish film Casanova (1990). His first leading part in a film was as Michael in the Danish film Den attende (1996). To date he had taken part in more then 30 films, and his latest is the role of Thomas Anderson in the European film The Prince & Me (2004). He has also been dubbing lots of cartoons from American into Danish versions.