Pilou Asbæk
Birthday: 1982-03-02
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography: Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk (born 2 March 1982) is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles as Euron Greyjoy on HBO's Game of Thrones, Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur (2016), Bouchard in The Great Wall (2016), Batou in Ghost in the Shell (2017), Captain Wafner in Overlord (2018), Cyrus in Samaritan(2022), Gage in Uncharted (2022), and a troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish TV political drama Borgen. He was among the recipients of the Shooting Stars Award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. On 10 May he was co-host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, with Lise Rønne and Nikolaj Koppel. Some critics commented adversely on the obscure jokes shared by the presenters throughout the televised show.
Movies
Salem's Lot
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is b...
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Worlds Apart
17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when s...
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Crying for Love
Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look...
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Before It Ends
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple...
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R
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Impriso...
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Monster Busters
The 12-year-old Oliver discovers that his grandfather used to be a monster hunter and is keeping a s...
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Uncharted
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a ...
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A Family
Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditt...
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A Hijacking
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leadin...
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Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a...
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The Absent One
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutal...
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Lucy
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a m...
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Speed Walking
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting read...
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The A-Z of Eurovision
Rylan Clark-Neal narrates a guide to all things Eurovision and takes a sideways look at the greatest...
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April 9th
In the early morning of April 9, 1940, the Danish army is alerted: the Germans have crossed the bord...
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Ben-Hur
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...
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Silent Heart
Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their...
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A War
Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhil...
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1864: Brødre i krig
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest b...
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Natural Disorder
Jacob Nossell (24) is intelligent, but hardly fits the picture of a dream child: he suffers from a p...
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Woodshock
Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured...
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The Whistleblower
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacek...
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Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell
An in depth look behind the scenes at the making of the live action Ghost In The Shell. Director Rup...
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The Great Wall
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of...
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Bora Bora
Mia, 15, is at odds with everyone. School is hell and her mother is always on her back. Mia is only ...
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The Guardian Angel
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who ...
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Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in t...
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Hidden Strike
Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions....
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series ...
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Run Sweetheart Run
A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns viol...
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Samaritan
Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually...
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Comeback
An elderly theater director returns to Copenhagen in order to reconnect with his estranged son....
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Outside the Wire
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an andro...
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I.S.S.
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on...
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he ...
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Overlord
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after the...
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 6...
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No Rest for the Wicked
1862. Baldur lives a fisherman’s life on the isolated Faroe Islands far to the north in the Atlantic...
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Blood on Snow
A hit man falls for his client's wife, who happens to be the target of the assassin's latest assignm...
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Ghost in the Shell
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-...
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