Pilou Asbæk
Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk (born 2 March 1982) is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles as Euron Greyjoy on HBO's Game of Thrones, Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur (2016), Bouchard in The Great Wall (2016), Batou in Ghost in the Shell (2017), Captain Wafner in Overlord (2018), Cyrus in Samaritan(2022), Gage in Uncharted (2022), and a troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish TV political drama Borgen. He was among the recipients of the Shooting Stars Award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. On 10 May he was co-host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, with Lise Rønne and Nikolaj Koppel. Some critics commented adversely on the obscure jokes shared by the presenters throughout the televised show.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Salem's Lot as R.T Straker
- 2024 · Twilight of the Gods as Thor (voice)
- 2024 · I.S.S. as Alexey Pulov
- 2023 · Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as Kordax
- 2023 · Before It Ends as Jakob
- 2023 · Hidden Strike as Paddock
- 2022 · Samaritan as Cyrus
- 2022 · Melvin Kakooza Show as Self
- 2022 · Uncharted as Gage
- 2021 · Outside the Wire as Victor Koval
- 2020 · The Investigation as Jakob Buch-Jepsen
- 2020 · The A-Z of Eurovision as Self - Presenter (archive footage)
- 2020 · Run Sweetheart Run as Ethan
- 2020 · Familien Asbæk as Self
- 2019 · Face to Face as Markus Lang
- 2019 · Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
- 2018 · Overlord as Captain Wafner
- 2018 · The Guardian Angel as Anders Olsen
- 2018 · Meyerheim & stjernerne as Self
- 2017 · Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms as Euron Greyjoy (voice)
- 2017 · Woodshock as Keith
- 2017 · Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell as self
- 2017 · Ghost in the Shell as Batou
- 2016 · The Great Wall as Bouchard
- 2016 · Ben-Hur as Pontius Pilate
- 2016 · Stag as Neils
- 2015 · Natural Disorder as (voice)
- 2015 · A War as Claus Michael Pedersen
- 2015 · April 9th as Sekondløjtnant Sand
- 2014 · Silent Heart as Dennis
- 2014 · 1864 as Didrich
- 2014 · 1864: Brødre i krig as Didrich
- 2014 · The Absent One as Ditlev Pram
- 2014 · Speed Walking as Onkel Kristian
- 2014 · Lucy as Richard
- 2013 · Sex, Drugs & Taxation as Simon Spies
- 2013 · Venice 70: Future Reloaded as
- 2012 · A Hijacking as Mikkel Hartmann
- 2011 · Bora Bora as Jim
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Euron Greyjoy
- 2011 · The Borgias as Paolo Orsini
- 2011 · A Family as Peter
- 2010 · Borgen as Kasper Juul
- 2010 · The Whistleblower as Bas
- 2010 · Venus as Rasmus
- 2010 · R as Rune
- 2009 · The Left Wing Gang as Carsten Nielsen
- 2009 · Monster Busters as Søren
- 2008 · Crying for Love as Oliver
- 2008 · Comeback as Kris
- 2008 · Zulu Awards as Host
- 2008 · Worlds Apart as Teis
- 2007 · The Killing as David Grüner
- 2005 · Made in Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · Klovn as Pilou
- 1956 · Eurovision Song Contest as Self - Host
- Future · Secrets as Mads