Pilou Asbæk
1982 (44 года)Born in Copenhagen, Asbæk is the son of gallery owners Maria Patricia (née Tonn) and Jacob A. Asbæk, who operate Galerie Asbæk in the city. His mother hails from Casablanca, Morocco, with a Danish father and a French mother, while his father is originally from Hammel. He has two older brothers: Thomas, an art consultant at Asbæk Art Consulting, and Martin, who owns Martin Asbæk Gallery.
Asbæk attended Herlufsholm School, a boarding institution where he participated in drama productions. He graduated from Denmark's Danish National School of Performing Arts in the summer of 2008.
He is married to playwright Anna Bro, who has been his domestic partner since 2008. The couple welcomed a daughter, Agnes Bro Asbæk, on December 31, 2012. Anna is the daughter of actors Hans Henrik Clemensen and Vigga Bro and comes from a family with a strong theatrical background.
His nickname "Pilou" derives from his mother's French heritage and is a diminutive form of "Pip." This name reflects his status as the youngest son, with "le plus petit" meaning "the littlest" in French, translating to "Little Philip." Thus, Pilou is short for Petit Philip.
Asbæk’s godfather was the late artist Kurt Trampedach.
In January 2022, after criticizing the Danish government's strict refugee policies under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Asbæk joined the Danish Social Democratic Party to advocate for change from within.
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aidan Gillen
HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in the thousands of years before Game of Thrones' story begins.
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Naturens Uorden
Christian Sønderby Jepsen
Jacob Nossell, Pilou Asbæk
Jacob Nossell (24) is intelligent, but hardly fits the picture of a dream child: he suffers from a paralysis of the brain, a congenital physical handicap. It affects not only his powers of speech, but also causes cramps and stiffness. When he speaks, his words cluster together, and when he walks it is with difficulty. With a normal intelligence in a weakened body Jacob is the embodiment of the problem ‘what is normality’: he is too much of an invalid to be fully accepted by society and too ordinary for him to be able to accept his own fate.
Natural Disorder
R
Michael Noer, Tobias Lindholm
Pilou Asbæk, Dulfi Al-Jabouri
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
R
Silent Heart
Bille August
Ghita Nørby, Morten Grunwald
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.
Silent Heart
The Absent One
Mikkel Nørgaard
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
The Absent One
The Whistleblower
Larysa Kondracki
Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
The Whistleblower
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Jeanie Finlay
Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week after the series 8 finale, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH delves deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the very real studios, fields and car-parks of Northern Ireland. Made with unprecedented access, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH is an up-close and personal portrait from the trenches of production, following the crew and the cast as they contend with extreme weather, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers. Much more than a “making of” documentary, this is a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what it means to create a world – and then have to say goodbye to it.
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
A War
Tobias Lindholm
Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny
Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.
A War
Worlds Apart
Niels Arden Oplev
Pilou Asbæk, Rosalinde Mynster
17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.
Worlds Apart
Speed Walking
Niels Arden Oplev
Villads Bøye, Kraka Donslund Nielsen
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion.
Speed Walking
April 9th
Roni Ezra
Pilou Asbæk, Ларс Микелсен
In the early morning of April 9th 1940, the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland, Danish bicycle and motorcycle companies are ordered out to, against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand and his bicycle company – they will be the first Danish soldiers to meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.
April 9th
Overlord
Julius Avery
Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Overlord
A Family
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Lene Maria Christensen, Jesper Christensen
Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family.
A Family
Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Christoffer Boe
Pilou Asbæk, Nicolas Bro
Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.
Sex, Drugs & Taxation
