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My Take
Pål Sverre Hagen is exactly the kind of actor I want to watch more of. Trained at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, he carried the entire romance of Kon-Tiki on his shoulders as Thor Heyerdahl, a role that announced him to the world. The shelf of Amanda Awards is no accident. What impresses me is the range, from that heroic voyage to the moral rot of Oslo's finance elite in Exit. As a Scorpio, he strikes me as the type who disappears completely into a part. His work feels like the Nordic sea, quiet on the surface and very deep underneath.
Overview
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen (born 6 November 1980) is a Norwegian stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for playing Thor Heyerdahl in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film Kon-Tiki. From 2019 to 2023, Hagen portrayed William in Exit, a series in 3 seasons that described the decadent lives of 4 men in Oslo's finance elites.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pål Sverre Hagen
- Name (Japanese)
- ポール・スヴェーレ・ハーゲン
- Reading
- ぽーる・すゔぇーれ・はーげん
- Born
- November 6, 1980 (age 45)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Monkey
- Origin
- Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / actor / stage actor / television producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2013 Amanda Award for Best Actor
- 2008 Kanon Award for best actor in a leading role
- 2007 The Hedda Award for Best Supporting Actor
- 2017 Gullruten award for best actor
- 2022 Amanda Award for Best Actor
- 2022 Haugesund Walk of Fame
- 2023 Amanda Award for Best Actor
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Actor — see all → · More people from Norway →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.