Pilou Asbæk 1982 43
Pilou Asbæk 1982 43
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.
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2025 No Rest for the Wicked as Helge
2024 Salem's Lot as R.T Straker
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 Uncharted as Gage
2021 Outside the Wire as Victor Koval
2020 The A-Z of Eurovision as Self - Presenter (archive footage)
2020 Run Sweetheart Run as Ethan
2019 Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
2018 Overlord as Captain Wafner
2018 The Guardian Angel as Anders Olsen
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
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: 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
2012 A Hijacking as Mikkel Hartmann
2011 Bora Bora as Jim
2011 A Family as Peter
2010 The Whistleblower as Bas
2010 Venus as Rasmus
2010 R as Rune
2009 Monster Busters as Søren
2008 Crying for Love as Oliver
2008 Comeback as Kris
2008 Worlds Apart as Teis