Pilou Asbæk

Pilou Asbæk was born on Mar 02, 1982 in Denmark. Pilou Asbæk's big-screen debut came with Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself directed by Lone Scherfig in 2002. Pilou Asbæk is known for The Investigation directed by Tobias Lindholm, Søren Malling stars as Jens Møller Jensen and Pilou Asbæk as Jakob Buch-Jepsen. Pilou Asbæk has got 5 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Pilou Asbæk achieved is CinEuphoria Awards. The upcoming new movie Pilou Asbæk plays is Hidden Strike which will be released on Dec 31, 2023.

Pilou Asbæk graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2008. In the same year, he played the leading role in Niels Arden Oplev's drama Worlds Apart. In 2010 he had his breakthrough as the inmate Rune in Lindholm & Noer's prison drama R for which he won the prize for Best actor at The Danish Critic Association Award, Bodil, and at the Danish Film Academy Awards, Robert. Furthermore, he was pointed as Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2011 for this performance; an honor that is given to ten European Actors. Also, for three years he starred in the BAFTA winning and critically acclaimed television series Borgen as Kasper Juul; spin doctor for the Danish Prime Minister. The following years Pilou played the leading role in Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking and A War. A War was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2015. In 2014, Pilou shot Luc-Besson's LUCY starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, and this year he played Pontius Pilate in Timur Bekmambetov's BEN-HUR. In 2017 he again played opposite Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sander's Ghost in the Shell as Batou. Pilou has starred as Euron Greyjoy in the 6th and 7th seasons of HBO's acclaimed series Game of Thrones.