Aksel Hennie

Aksel Hennie is a Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter who has been active since 1998. He won an Amanda Award, Norway's national film prize, for his feature debut Jonny Vang (2003), and another for directing Uno (2004).

He is known internationally for Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Headhunters (2011), Hercules (2014), The Martian (2015) and Sisu (2022), and for the television series Nobel (2016). He received further Amanda Awards for Max Manus and Pioneer (2013), and was named a European Shooting Star in 2004. He appears in Hercules (2014).