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13.07.2020/in Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Paw Terndrup

Paw Terndrup is a talented and well-known Danish actor, born in 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His mother is a musician and his father is a doctor. Art and film played a major part in Paw’s life and upbringing and led him on the path to becoming an actor. In 2008 a game-changing event occurred, when he got into The Danish National School of Performing Arts and since then he’s been playing different roles in music videos, short and feature films as well as TV-series. He’s had a longstanding tradition as a theatre actor parallel with his acting career in front of the camera.

He has just played the great role of the Danish King Christian 10th which was shown on the Danish National TV DR in the TV series called FREDERIK THE NINTH, which portrayed the Danish Royal Family and was a smash box hit with 1.6 million viewers in Denmark pr. Episode and a rating of 4.6 out of 5. A role he also portrayed in THE HISTORY OF DENMARK and from which he received great recognition. Furthermore, he has played roles in action and crime TV series, such as WHEN THE DUST SETTLES, BELOW THE SURFACE II and is currently shooting THOSE WHO KILL the third season. He`s been playing roles in movies like THE DEBT, VICTIM OF LOVE, NORTHWEST, THE REUNION more.

06.01.2020/in Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Iikka Forss

The talented Finnish actor Iikka Forss graduated from the Theatre Academy of Finland (Master of Arts in Theater and Drama) in the year 2000. Before studying drama, Forss studied dance at the Turku Conservatory, from which time probably partly stems his skill and range as a highly physical performer. Hailed as a highly transformative and technically skilled and precise actor, Forss has played a number of significant roles in theater, television, and film. Iikka Forss is both a renowned master of comedic timing as well as an uncompromising and deeply devoted, strong drama actor. With these features, Forss became a well-known actor in the 2012 television series ‘Helsingin Herra’, where he played the title role. As an actor in that series, Forss was nominated for both the International Golden Nymph and the Finnish Golden Venla Award. After graduating as an actor, Forss was attached under contract with the Lahti City Theater for ten years, playing a number of notable roles in both comedy and drama, including the title role of ‘Hamlet’ and the role of Randle McMurphy in the play ‘One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest’. In 2010, Forss was asked to join the crew of the Helsinki City Theater as an actor, where he acted in the works of a number of well-known Finnish directors up until 2017. In Helsinki, Forss was also given a number of significant lead and side roles in both comedy and drama. Forss, who plays drums in his spare time, was also seen in the Helsinki City Theater in a pivotal role in the musical How to Succeed in Business and in the hugely popular musical, Pippi Longstocking, in which he played the roles of a very fine, physically skilled thief and a tap-dancing policeman. In 2017, Forss became a freelance artist to be able to focus on-camera work and to take on the TV and movie roles he was being offered. Indeed, Forss has acted in several films and television series over the past two years. Still, he has not shied away from the stage during that time and has done notable work for example in the role of Thomas Colleymoore in ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ at the Turku City Theater 2018 – 2019. Forss’ latest major TV role is one of the lead roles in the highly acclaimed TV series ‘Modern Men’, which has now finished two seasons of filming. The series is nominated for the Golden Venla 2019 Award in the Best Finnish Comedy Series category.

01.11.2019/in Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Carsten Kressner

Carsten Kressner is a Danish actor, scriptwriter, director, and producer.

In 1981, Carsten Kressner graduated from ‘The Acting School of Odense’, Denmark. Carsten’s professional career includes +150 film, television and theater productions.

To name a few, Carsten’s CV highlights include the highly acclaimed Danish tv series ‘Follow the Money’ as series regular, ‘A Fortunate Man’, ‘Those Who Kill’, ‘Badehotellet’, ‘Below the Surface’ and ‘You Disappear’.

In 1993, Carsten graduated as a scriptwriter from The National Danish Filmschool. His latest work for the stage is ‘Victims Anonymous’ about 7 young people entangled in victimhood.

03.10.2019/in Booking, Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Kris Gummerus

Kris Gummerus is an incredibly talented and versatile Finnish actor. Kris is an educated actor with a Bachelor of Arts at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a Master of Arts from Helsinki Theatre Academy. Gummnerus is mostly known for his lead role as Finland’s first superhero, RENDEL in the feature film ‘Rendel: Dark Vengeance’. He is also a prominent television actor in his native Finland. Furthermore, Kris is very talented within language, mastering RP English, general American and English accents in Nordic, East European and Russian.

22.03.2019/in Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Joel Saemundsson

Joel is an award nominated actor at ‘EDDAN’ (Icelandic Film and TV awards) ‘Supporting Lead Actor of the Year’, for his role in ‘Pity the Lovers’. The Swedish filmmaker/director is Maximilian Hult, and it was selected for ‘Special focus highlighting Scandinavian Comedy’ at the Gothenburg film festival.

‘Love on Iceland, by Hallmark, is Joel’s latest significant role.

He was selected to ‘the hero squad’ in the Clint Eastwood’s ‘Flags of our Fathers’.

Various supporting and lead roles in Icelandic films, TV shows and theater plays such as „Makalaus“, „Pressa 2“, „Hlemmavídeo“, „City State 2“ and Trapped by Baltasar“.

Joel is in the show „Defending the caveman“ in Iceland since fall 2017, which led him to perform the show in Las Vegas in 2018 and thereby became be the first Icelandic headliner in a Vegas show.

Visit his website at, www.icelandactors.com

19.03.2018/in Endorsement, Male Artists /by Lene Seested

John Carew

John Carew is a Norwegian actor and a retired professional footballer who, throughout his career, has played in West Ham, Aston Villa, AS Roma, Valencia FC, Olympiq Lyon and 91 times for the Norwegian national soccer team. Throughout John’s successful acting career, he has worked both nationally and internationally. To name a few, John is lead in the hugely successful Norwegian TV-series ‘Heimebane’ (Home Ground), as Michael – a star footballer for a local Norwegian club and he is also starring in the feature film ‘Dead of Winter’, a Canadian horror. Moreover, John plays alongside Angelina Jolie in Disney’s hugely anticipated feature ‘Maleficent II’ and is lead in the Norwegian action feature film ‘Høvdinger’.

29.01.2018/in Behind the Camera, Booking, Endorsement, Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon is one of the most highly-acclaimed actors whose career has spanned over three decades. Matt has showcased this immense talent in dramas as well as in comedies throughout the years in a variety of iconic films. Dillon is a truly versatile actor and director and received an Academy Award nomination for his role in the ‘Academy Award Oscar-winning feature film ‘Crash’. Dillon wrote further directed the feature film ‘City of Ghosts’ and he is the lead role as well. Dillon’s lead roles to mention a few are; ‘The Outsiders’ by Francis Ford Coppola, ‘Drugstore Cowboy’ by Gus Van Sant’, ‘To Die For’, ‘One Night at McCool’s’, Lars Von Trier’s ‘The House that Jack Build’ and ‘There’s something about Mary’. Matt continues to stay relevant as one of the most celebrated actors of our time.

08.01.2018/in Male Artists /by Lene Seested

Lars Knutzon

Lars is an extraordinary Danish actor with a impressive resume with film and television credits from the last four decades. He was a series regular in the eight times award-winning TV series “Borgen” throughout the show’s run. He was also a series regular in the Emmy-winning TV series “The Protectors”.

Lars had a series regular role in the six times award-nominated TV series “Badehotellet” and the Danish Christmas series “Tidsrejsen”. He has a significant supporting role in the highly anticipated feature film “The Lion Woman”.

In addition, Lars had a supporting role in the six times award-winning feature film “Shake It All About” directed by the Oscar winning director Bille August, and was one of the leading roles in the feature film “Det grå guld”.

Lars also has great experience within theatre and dubbing.

13.03.2017/in Male Artists /by Yan Knudtskov Nielsen

Frederik Meldal Nørgaard

Frederik Meldal Nørgaard is a Danish award winning actor, Writer and director.

He made his stage debut in 1996, and has been working steadfast working actor since both on stage, tv and screen.

He’s co-founder, producer and ensemble in the Award Winning theatre company Von Baden, and was in 2017 nominated for a Reumert for Best Supporting Actor, and same year finished his second feature film as writer and director.

In 2016 he was nominated for a Danish Academy Award for his Debut film “Villads Fra Valby”, which wrote, directed and starred in. His Second feature KIDBUSTERS recently passed 100.000 tickets in Danish Cinemas, and has been selected for several festivals, a.o Cinekid in Amstedam and Nordische Filmtage in Lubeck.

In his more than 20 years career Frederik has done a variety of genres, working mainly with new drama but also with classics as Shakespeare, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Sam Shepard and David Mamet.

12.03.2017/0 Comments/in Male Artists Film, Short films, Television /by Yan Knudtskov Nielsen

Uffe Rørbæk

Uffe Rørbæk (aka Uffe Rørbæk Madsen) is a Danish actor, director, writer and musician born June 22nd 1961.

He began his career as a musician and comedian in the Danish comedy group “De Nattergale” which became a household name in Denmark. Through the years they have done numerous shows in Danish concert halls and on television.

Though starting out as a comedian the last ten years Uffe Rørbæk has been seen in various dramatic roles in TV series, on film and on stage. In 2015 he was nominated for the “Bodil Award” by the Danish film critics as best actor in a leading role for his performance in “Det Andet Liv” (In Real Life).