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.
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Aksel Hennie Biography / Wiki
| Name | Aksel Hennie |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Oslo, Norway |
| Date of Birth | 1975-10-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 46 |
| Deathday |
Aksel Hennie Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Jonny Vang | Jonny Vang | 2003-02-14 | Three friends since childhood are trying to work out their complicated relationships. Jonny tries to be best friends with Magnus, Magnus tries to be m… |
| Max Manus: Man of War | Max Manus | 2008-12-18 | Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribu… |
| Uno | David | 2004-09-10 | Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle’s gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purcha… |
| Headhunters | Roger Brown | 2011-08-26 | An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary…. |
| 90 Minutes | Trond | 2012-09-21 | Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomo… |
| Anolit | Stefan | 2002-12-10 | A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW…. |
| Tell Me Not to Worry | Smith (voice) | 2004-03-22 | Smith is searching for his guiding star. For centuries his expeditions have been in vain. But then one night, just as he’s about to give up, the star … |
| Congo | Joshua French | 2018-10-26 | In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing … |
| When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town | Jesper | 2022-12-25 | Our second foray into the fantastic world of Torbjørn Egners stories, will take you to Cardamom Town, where you will meet Aunt Sophia, little Camomil… |
| Through a Glass, Darkly | Ariel | 2008-10-17 | A moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept death and understands how wonderful life really is…. |
| Buddy | Geir | 2003-08-29 | Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Ge… |
| Guggen: The Big Cheese | (voice) | 2002-10-22 | Guggen is not like the other rat-children. He hates the sewers and loves the fresh air on the roof, where he has emigrated. His mom is worried. What w… |
| Twigson the Explorer | Twigson (voice) | 2017-11-17 | Lillebror moves with Twigson and his family to the western part of Norway, but he dreams of even bigger expeditions, like going to the North Pole…. |
| The Trip | Lars | 2021-07-30 | A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can… |
| Sisu | Bruno Helldorf | 2022-09-09 | Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold. From time to time, the overflight of bombers and the distant sounds of war can … |
| Spenn | A father is struggling to keep a good life with his son. His last business project was a flop. He is about to loose everything when two men with a gun… | ||
| Fort forover | Even | 2000-11-03 | The year after upper secondary high school the best friends Even works in a kinder garden, while Andreas is running from party after party…. |
| Cold Lunch | Christer | 2008-02-01 | Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences…. |
| Kurt Turns Evil | Bud / Barnehagebarn (voice) | 2009-03-25 | One day Kurt discovers that society basically does not respect forklift operators very much. His wife is an ambitious architect. His neighbor is a med… |
| Pioneer | Petter | 2013-08-30 | Pioneer is set in the early ’80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the au… |
| Last Knights | Gezza Mott | 2015-04-03 | When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come … |
| The Doorman | Borz | 2020-10-01 | A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while… |
| Friday Night Fever | Voice | 1996-01-01 | The film marked the debut of cartoonist and illustrator Christopher Nielsen as an animator. This is a crude cartoon with period humour depicting Oslo’… |
| The Middle Man | Arthur Clintstone | 2021-09-17 | Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle … |
| Hercules | Tydeus | 2014-07-23 | Fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for th… |
| Wolf Summer | PÃ¥l | 2003-02-28 | The young Norwegian girl Kim almost gets killed after falling from a hillside. She finds shelter and stumbles upon the territory of a wolf and her pup… |
| Cry in the Woods | Stefan | 2004-04-02 | An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage…. |
| The Cloverfield Paradox | Volkov | 2018-02-04 | Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality…. |
| The Long Way Home: Making ‘The Martian’ | Self | 2016-06-07 | A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott’s film, “The Martian,” featuring interviews with its cast and crew…. |
| Hawaii, Oslo | Trygve | 2004-09-24 | Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other’s path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the yea… |
| The Martian | Alex Vogel | 2015-09-30 | During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and … |
| A Somewhat Gentle Man | Samen | 2010-03-19 | After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or t… |
| Bloody Angels | Arnt-Olaf | 1998-12-26 | A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed… |
| Age of Heroes | Lt. Steinar Mortensen | 2011-05-19 | The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K…. |
Aksel Hennie Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Uno | Director | 2004-09-10 | Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle’s gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purcha… |
Aksel Hennie Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Congo | Executive Producer | 2018-10-26 | In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Uno | Writer | 2004-09-10 | Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle’s gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purcha… |
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