Pål Sverre Hagen

Pål Sverre Hagen was born in Stavanger in 1980, the son of the Norwegian cartoonist Roar Hagen. After graduating from the three-year acting course at the State Theatre Academy in Oslo he began his career as a stage actor, and had roles in a few short films and TV series. Norwegian audiences became familiar with him in 2008 for his role as Jan Thomas in the gripping drama TROUBLED WATER. That same year he had a supporting role in the successful Norwegian film MAX MANUS, which is about the WWII Norwegian resistance fighter of the same name. His first experiences in comedy came in 2011, when he played the drunken philosophy student in I TRAVEL ALONE.

Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen's international breakthrough came in 2012 with his role as the Norwegian "Indiana Jones", Thor Heyerdahl. KON-TIKI was at almost 12 million EURO the most expensive Norwegian film of all time, and was nominated for both the Oscar® and Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film. Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen is a fixture in Norwegian cinema, more recently seen in RAGNAROK. In 2012, the Norwegian edition of ELLE voted him number 14 on the list of Norway's "Sexiest Men".

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