When The Worst Person in the World was nominated for two Oscars, one of its stars had a second job to get back to. Anders Danielsen Lie won Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, according to…
Few Norwegian actors can say they have won the Amanda Award, Norway’s top film prize, three times. According to Store norske leksikon, Pål Sverre Hagen did it for Kon-Tiki (2012), The Middle Man (2020) and Krigsseileren (2023). He also won…
In 2019, Tobias Santelmann won Norway’s Amanda Award for his performance as Tjostolv Moland in Mordene i Kongo, according to Store norske leksikon, Norway’s national encyclopedia. Seven years later, he is the title character in a nine-episode Netflix series. That…
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal won Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Actress for her first leading film role, the slasher Cold Prey (2006), according to Wikipedia. Two years later she was nominated again for the sequel. That start would have made her…
On January 17, 2026, in Berlin, the European Film Academy gave Liv Ullmann its European Lifetime Achievement Award. It came four years after she received an Honorary Oscar, and nearly seventy years after her professional debut. Few actors have been…
In May 2026, Backrooms opened to $81.4 million in North American theaters, a record for the studio A24. Two months earlier, Renate Reinsve had walked the Oscars red carpet as a Best Actress nominee for Sentimental Value. Few actors have…
Aksel Hennie won an Amanda Award, Norway’s main film prize, for directing his own debut film Uno in 2005. The film was inspired by his own teenage brush with the law, and he trained for six months to play a…
Kristofer Hivju appeared in 33 episodes of Game of Thrones between 2013 and 2019. In that time the Norwegian actor turned the wildling raider Tormund Giantsbane into one of the show’s most quoted characters. His net worth is another matter.…
