2022 delivering the 1962 "
We choose to go to the Moon" Rice University speech His father,
Robert Phillipson, was an associate professor of English at
Roskilde University and his stepmother, Finnish
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, was a linguist. Because of Caspar's Scottish father, he grew up bilingual. His biological mother is Danish Helle-Vibeke Brinch. Phillipson work as a stage actor, screen actor, and voice actor. As a voice actor, Phillipson has
dubbed roles from English-language films into Danish, including revoicing
Johnny Depp as
Willy Wonka in
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Phillipson
portrayed John F. Kennedy in
Jackie (2016), his first role in an English-language film. He first auditioned for the part by video from
Istanbul while appearing in a stage production of
Hamlet. Although Phillipson appeared for less than ten minutes in
Jackie, the press noted his close resemblance to Kennedy.
The Washington Post commented on the resemblance after photos from the film's set were released: "That thatch of hair, those white teeth, the smile lines around the eyes — all very Kennedyesque. He might not be familiar to U.S. audiences, but he's far more visually similar to the former prez than other actors who’ve played JFK in recent memory, including
James Marsden in
The Butler (2013),
Greg Kinnear in the 2011 TV miniseries
The Kennedys and
Rob Lowe in 2013's
Killing Kennedy." Prior to auditioning for the part, Phillipson said his resemblance to Kennedy had only been noticed when he spent time in the United States: "I did a workshop years ago with
Frank Corsaro, this iconic American teacher — he was the leader of
Actors Studio — and suddenly, in the middle of a different scene, he said in this gruff voice, 'You have to do Kennedy one day. You just
have to.'" Following Corsaro's advice, Phillipson practiced speeches by Kennedy and his brother
Robert F. Kennedy, who he believed he more closely resembled. Phillipson reprised the role of Kennedy again in a short film, performing a "lost" speech written for the president to deliver on 22 November 1963, the date of
his assassination. Phillipson's delivery of the speech was filmed at the 2017
COLCOA Film Festival and released as
The Speech JFK Never Gave. He also played Kennedy in films
Blonde (2022),
Hammarskjöld (2023), and
Maria (2024). == Filmography ==