Le Chiffre is the main villain of the official 2006 James Bond film , '' Casino Royale '' , portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen . Believed by MI6 to be Albanian and officially stateless , Le Chiffre is a private banker who finances international terrorism . M implies that Le Chiffre conspired with al-Qaeda in orchestrating 9/11 , or at least deliberately profiteering from the attacks by short selling large quantities of airline stocks beforehand . In the video game version of '' Quantum of Solace '' , it is said that his birth name is " Jean Duran " , in the MI6 mission briefings . A mathematical genius and a chess prodigy , his abilities enable him to earn large sums of money on games of chance and probabilities , and he likes to show off by playing poker . He suffers from haemolacria , which causes him to weep blood out of a damaged vessel in his left eye . As in Fleming 's novel , he dresses in immaculate black suits and uses a Salbutamol inhaler , here plated with platinum
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