Aksel Hennie

Aksel Hennie is one of those Norwegian actors I think international audiences met sideways, through Max Manus or his turn in The Martian, without realizing how deep his roots run at home. The stack of Amanda Awards tells me he's taken seriously across the table in Norway, not just as an actor but as a director and writer too. I respect performers who built their reputation behind the camera as well as in front of it. His breakout, Uno, came from his own pen, and that kind of self-made start always reads to me as someone who refused to wait for permission.

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Name (English)

Aksel Hennie

Name (Japanese)

アクセル・ヘニー

Reading

あくせる・へにー

Born

October 29, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Oslo, Norway

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / voice actor / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Amanda Award for Best Direction
• 2003 Amanda Award for Best Actor
• 2009 Amanda Award for Best Actor
• 2014 Amanda Award for Best Actor
• 2004 Kanon prize for best screenplay

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/akselhennie/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel%20Hennie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q421471

Tags

• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.