Aksel Hennie is an actor of Norwegian origin, known for his roles in such films as "Friend", "Alone", "Mirror of Riddles", "Max Manus: Man of War" and others. Starting with small roles in productions of Norwegian theaters, he soon began to appear in the highest grossing films in his country, and then moved to Hollywood film sets. In the article, we will get acquainted with the most popular projects from his filmography.
Biography
Axel Hennie (photo below) was born in 1975 in Lambertseter, a suburb of Oslo (Norway). In 2001 he graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theater, where he applied four times. And after studying, he began to look for a job in his speci alty. First he became a member of the theater troupe in Molda, and then got a job at Oslo Nye Teater, the most visited theater in the capital, where he played in such plays as Hamlet and The woman who married a turkey.
Wolf Cry
Axel made his film debut in 2003, when he starred in the comedyJens Lien's drama Joni Wang. He played the main character, who lives in the countryside and dreams of building an earthworm business. This film was highly acclaimed by critics, and the actor himself was awarded prizes at two European film festivals. In the same year, Axel Henny received a small role in Peder Norlund's adventure drama Wolf Summer. And he became part of the main cast of Morten Tildum's comedy film "Friend" (2003) about three friends who, in an instant, turned from posting advertisements into participants in a popular television show.
In 2004, the actor received a supporting role in the thriller by Erich Hortnagle "Weeping in the Forest", which tells how a mentally ill person becomes a hostage of a bank robber. In the same year, he tried on the image of an instructor in the gym named David in his own crime drama One. The film won numerous awards, and the writing of the script was somewhat influenced by a true story from Axel's personal life, when, as a teenager, he was arrested for graffiti on walls in his native Oslo. And three years later, Axel Henni appeared as one of the main characters in the Norwegian mini-series Torpedo.
Mirror of Max Manus
In 2008, the actor starred in Eva Serheug's drama "Lunch" about how the desire to remove bird droppings from the main character's shirt starts a chain of irreversible consequences. He played Ariel, a guy who claims to be an angel, in Jesper W. Nielsen's drama film Mirror of Mysteries (2008). And in the sameThe biographical drama Max Manus: Man of War by Joaquim Ronning and Espen Sandberg was released in 2009.
In 2010, together with Stellan Skarsgard, he appeared in the comedy film by Hans Petter Moland "A Pretty Kind Man". Replenished the main cast based on real events action adventure Adrian Vitoria "Age of Heroes" (2011). Roger Brown, a bounty hunter living a double life, was played in Morten Tyldum's thriller Headhunters (2011), based on the novel of the same name by the Norwegian writer J. Nesbe. And the role of Trond, one of the men who has an hour and a half left before something terrible happens to him, was played in Eva Serheug's next drama “90 Minutes” (2012).
The Last Martian
Petter Jensen, a professional diver from the 80s, Axel Henni played in the thriller Eric Sjöldbjerg's Trailblazer (2013). The image of Tydeus - a wild warrior, the son of King Oineus of Calydon, was tried on in the fantasy action movie Hercules (2014) by Brett Ratner. And as an evil imperial minister, Geza Motta starred in Kazuaki Kiriya's action adventure The Last Knights (2014).
He played Alex Vogel, the German astronaut, chemist and navigator of the Ares-3 Martian expedition, in Ridley Scott's sci-fi film The Martian (2015), based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir. RoleRussian engineer Volkov Axel Henney performed in Julius Ohn's horror film The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). And at the end of 2018, the premiere of the crime drama Mordene i Kongo by Marius Holst will take place, in which the actor will play one of the main roles.
