Aksel Hennie

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1975-10-29 (49 years old)

Place of Birth Oslo, Norway

Aksel Hennie

Biography

Aksel Hennie (born 29 October 1975) is a Norwegian actor, director and writer. He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies, and has received several awards. Hennie grew up in Lambertseter in Oslo. In his late teens he was sentenced for graffiti, and became an outcast in the community for confessing to the police. This personal story contributed much of the background for the movie Uno. The conviction against Hennie was in fact one of the first such cases in Norway. Hennie was admitted to the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre after applying four times. He graduated in 2001, and has since acted both at Teatret Vårt in Molde (2001–2002) and at Oslo Nye Teater (2002–), where he has been in plays such as Hamlet, and Kvinnen som giftet seg med en kalkun (English: The woman who married a turkey). His main success, however, has been as a film actor. He made his debut starring in the feature film Jonny Vang in 2003. Though the director, Jens Lien, originally thought Hennie was too young for the role, the actor convinced him he was the right man for the film. The same year he also acted in the movies Buddy and Ulvesommer, and the next year he made his debut as a director and writer with the movie Uno, in which he also acted. For this film Hennie, and his co-star Nicolai Cleve Broch, went into hard physical training for six months to perform convincingly as bodybuilders. He won the Amanda Award – the main Norwegian film award – for "Best Direction" for the movie Uno in 2005, and that same year he was also among the nominees for "Best Actor" and "Best Film". He also won an Amanda award as "Best Actor" for the movie Jonny Vang in 2003. He was named one of European films "Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion in 2004. In 2001 he was also named "Theatre talent of the year" by the newspaper Dagbladet. In 2008 Hennie starred in the movie Max Manus, where he played the role of the Norwegian war hero by that name. The movie had a large budget by Norwegian standards, and was met with great expectations. His next upcoming international film is Age of Heroes, a world war 2 movie primarily shot in Norway starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aksel Hennie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Stayer

as Even Elstad

2025
Spermageddon

as Simen (voice)

2024
Frifot

as Aksel Hennie

2022
Three Robbers and a Lion

as Jesper (voice)

2022
Sisu

as Bruno

2022
Cockroaches

as Paul

2021
The Middle Man

as Arthur Clintstone

2021
The Trip

as Lars

2020
The Doorman

as Borz

2020
White Wall

as Lars

2018
Congo

as Joshua French

2017
Twigson the Explorer

as Twigson (voice)

2016
Nobel

as Erling Riiser

2015
The Martian

as Alex Vogel

2015
Last Knights

as Geza Mott

2015
ARES: live

as Alex Vogel

2014
Hercules

as Tydeus

2013
Pioneer

as Petter

2012
90 Minutes

as Trond

2011
Headhunters

as Roger Brown

2011
Age of Heroes

as Lt. Steinar Mortensen

2009
Kurt Turns Evil

as Bud / Barnehagebarn (voice)

2008
2008
Cold Lunch

as Christer

2007
2007
Torpedo

as Sebastian

2004
Hawaii, Oslo

as Trygve

2004
Uno

as David

2004
2004
Tell Me Not to Worry

as Smith (voice)

2003
Buddy

as Geir

2003
Wolf Summer

as Pål

2003
Jonny Vang

as Jonny Vang

2002
Anolit

as Stefan

2002
2000
Fort forover

as Even

1998
Bloody Angels

as Arnt-Olaf

1996

Director

Stayer

as Director

2004
Uno

as Director

Producer

2018
Congo

as Executive Producer

2012
90 Minutes

as Executive Producer

Writer

2004
Uno

as Writer