Pilou Asbæk Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Birth name Johan Philip Pilou Asbæk
Pseudo Johan Philip Asbæk
Nationality Danish
Birth March 2, 1982 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

BIOGRAPHY
Johan Philip Pilou Asbæk graduated from the National Theater School of Denmark in 2008. That same year he made his screen debut, in Worlds Appart , by Niels Arden Oplev , which brought him to the attention of Danish television.

He tried his hand at the small screen in season 2 of The Killing before exploding into the cinema in his first major role: that of Rune, in the film R (2010, but broadcast in France in early 2014), by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer , a prisoner desperately trying to survive in an extremely violent prison environment. In just a few years, he became the darling of Danish cinema. We find him, again in 2010, in En Famillie , by Pernille Fischer Christensen , selected at the Berlinale that same year. His success did not stop there since the actor obtained one of the first roles in the series Borgen which subsequently won the prestigious prize “Best Dramatic TV Series” and “Best International Series” at the BAFTA Awards in 2012 . actor reunites with director Tobias Lindholm, to whom we owe around ten episodes of Borgen, in a new feature film, Hijacking in 2012. Returning to the series, it is none other than Duke Paolo Orsini who he starred in Borgia in 2013. Obtaining a role in an international film for the first time, he appeared alongside Scarlett Johansson in Lucy , by Luc Besson , in 2014. In 2016, Pilou Asbæk once again teamed up with his favorite director Tobias Lindholm for the needs of the intense A War , in which the actor plays a soldier forced to make a decision with serious consequences. That same year, he joined the prestigious series Game of Thrones through the formidable warrior leader Euron Greyjoy and – proof that he is not done with big productions – starred in the epic Ben-Hur . In 2017, the actor reunited with Scarlett Johansson via Ghost In The Shell , the adaptation of the famous Japanese manga. Claire Lefranc