
Pilou Asbæk
Biography
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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Known For
Acting History
2027
The Thomas Crown Affair
2025Insider as Sig selv
2025Secrets as Mads
2024Salem's Lot as R.T Straker
2024Twilight of the Gods as Thor (voice)
2024I.S.S. as Alexey Pulov
2023Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as Kordax
2023Before It Ends as Jakob
2023Hidden Strike as Paddock
2022Samaritan as Cyrus
2022Melvin Kakooza Show as Sig selv
2022Uncharted as Gage
2021Foundation as The Mule
2021Outside the Wire as Victor Koval
2020The Investigation as Jakob Buch-Jepsen
2020The A-Z of Eurovision as Self - Presenter (archive footage)
2020Run Sweetheart Run as Ethan
2020Familien Asbæk as Self
2019Face to Face as Markus Lang
2019Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
2018Overlord as Captain Wafner
2018The Guardian Angel as Anders Olsen
2018Meyerheim & stjernerne as Sig selv
2017Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms as Euron Greyjoy (voice)
2017Woodshock as Keith
2017Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell as self
2017Ghost in the Shell as Batou
2016The Great Wall as Bouchard
2016Ben-Hur as Pontius Pilate
2016Stag as Neils
2015Natural Disorder as (voice)
2015A War as Claus Michael Pedersen
2015April 9th as Sekondløjtnant Sand
2014Silent Heart as Dennis
20141864: Brødre i krig as Didrich
20141864 as Didrich
2014The Absent One as Ditlev Pram
2014Speed Walking as Onkel Kristian
2014Lucy as Richard
2013Sex, Drugs & Taxation as Simon Spies
2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2012A Hijacking as Mikkel Hartmann
2011Bora Bora as Jim
2011Game of Thrones as Euron Greyjoy
2011The Borgias as Paolo Orsini
2011A Family as Peter
2010Borgen as Kasper Juul
2010The Whistleblower as Bas
2010Venus as Rasmus
2010R as Rune
2009The Left Wing Gang as Carsten Nielsen
2009Monster Busters as Søren
2008Crying for Love as Oliver
2008Comeback as Kris
2008Zulu Awards as Host
2008Worlds Apart as Teis
2007The Killing as David Grüner
2005Made in Hollywood as Self
2005Klovn as Pilou
1956Eurovision Song Contest as Self - Host
—Blood on Snow
—No Rest for the Wicked as Helge









