Aksel Hennie (Actor)

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Movies starring Aksel Hennie have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.

The Martian - released in 2015 - is Aksel Hennie's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 1,258 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Aksel Hennie is The Doorman - released in 2020 - with a score of 47% based on 7 reviews.

Actor 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 what is in fact one of the first such cases in Norway.

Hennie what is 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 gifting 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 so 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, therefore, among the nominees for "Best Actor" and "Best Film". He also won at Amanda award as "Best Actor" for the movie Jonny Vang in 2003. He was named one of European film's "Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion in 2004. In 2001 he was so 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 film is Age of Heroes, a world war 2 movie primarily shot in Norway starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer.

Aksel Hennie has acted in films with Eivind Sander, Sean Bean, Matt Devere and Anders Baasmo Christiansen.

Aksel Hennie has worked with these film directors: Morten Tyldum, Ridley Scott, Brett Ratner and Ryuhei Kitamura.