Carsten's past projects include the feature film AVP - Alien vs. Predator for 20th Century Fox, directed by Paul Anderson. Carsten joined the ensemble cast in the role of Quinn; a third generation oil driller who is brought to the expedition by Lance Henriksen's character, Bishop, to lead the expedition's drilling team to Antarctica. Quinn is firm but fair and always concerned for the safety of his men.

Carsten also appeared in the Civil War drama Gods & Generals with Robert Duvall and Jeff Daniels for director Ron Maxwell.

Carsten starred and co-produced The Gristle, the first and only feature film ever to be financed with an SBA (Small Business Administration) loan guarantee. The news and historical significance of this funding received front-page editorial coverage in Daily Variety, the L.A. Times Business Section and other important publications. The Gristle was sold to HBO and is currently airing.

Carsten's other credits include The Ring, an NBC mini-series in which Carsten was the leading man and lover opposite Nastassja Kinski. In Out of Annie's Past, he starred alongside Dennis Farina, in a performance about which Daily Variety wrote, "Norgaard's overwrought lover is smooth as cream." Carsten's subsequent performance in House of Frankenstein was similarly praised in Daily Variety, for his "strong Willinger character" and contribution of texture to the piece. Additional U.S. credits include Missing Pieces with James Coburn, Soldier with Kurt Russell and The Spartans, which earned an official selection at the Sundance film festival.

Walt Disney brought Carsten to Hollywood to star opposite Emilio Estevez in the No.1 box office hit Mighty Ducks 2 –D2. He won much critical acclaim for his standout portrayal of the ice hockey coach Wolf Stansson. The Hollywood Reporter praised, "Carsten Norgaard is terrific as the arch-villain, the black suited, slick-haired Icelandic coach." Several years later, Carsten's role in D2 was still making waves in a New York Times article, "For the Villains of Hollywood, It's Cold War II."

An early passion for filmmaking and acting led Carsten from his native Denmark to London to study at The Actors Centre.

Carsten's first role was in the feature film, The Fruit Machine directed by Phillip Saville. Next up was the successful television series, The Manageress, starring Cherrie Lunghi. In this series, he played a top European soccer player confronted with jealousy and integration issues after being bought by an English first division club. That was followed by a role on another successful television series called Capital City wherein Carsten played a stockbroker, and then the BBC film Tales of Hollywood with Jeremy Irons and Alec Guinness.

Eccentric and controversial English auteur Ken Russell (Emmy-winning director of the biopic Mahler) subsequently cast Carsten as a male nurse in the critically acclaimed The Strange Afflictions of Anton Bruckner for Melvin Bragg's famed South Bank Show. This was a piece about the composer Anton Bruckner and his battles with obsessive compulsive disorder. Ken Russell also cast Carsten in the HBO movie, Prisoner of Honor, with Richard Dreyfuss.

Carsten has also been awarded a grant for a short subject script from the Danish/British Cultural Fund.