Aksel Hennie

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Aksel Hennie Joins Dwayne Johnson in Brett Ratner's Hercules

The Norwegian star will play Tydeus, a dual axe wielding madman that is required to be chained while he sleeps.

Feb 21, 2013

Second Headhunters Trailer

Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in this adaptation of Jo Nesbo's novel about a headhunter who tries to steal a valuable painting.

Mar 5, 2012

Aksel Hennie Acting Credits

About Aksel Hennie

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 V rt 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

Aksel Hennie

Latest 'Aksel Hennie' News

Aksel Hennie Joins Dwayne Johnson in Brett Ratner's Hercules

Second Headhunters Trailer

Aksel Hennie Acting Credits

The Martian

The Cloverfield Paradox

Hercules

Last Knights

Headhunters