Emil Johnsen

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
May 26, 1978 (47 years old)

Emil Johnsen

Known For

Gangs of Oslo
0h 45m
TV Show 2023

Gangs of Oslo

Policeman Moaz Ibrahim is forced into living a dangerous double life with the criminal gang Enemiez as an attempt to keep his shady past hidden from the outside world.

BBQ & Apocalypse
0h 16m
Movie 2021

BBQ & Apocalypse

VI GÅR NED MED STIL OG ENGANGSGRILL is a short film that explores the human reaction to a climate crisis that seems unmanageable. A meteorologist is among the select few who get to join those in power and technology giants of a new planet. If he leaves, he leaves his partner and the small group of people who have given up hope and would rather continue the party.

HIM
1h 25m
Movie 2021

HIM

HIM consists of three separate stories in one film. Harald (11) is a boy who constantly falls outside the group. He is not recognized either by friends, school or parents. Emil (30) is unemployed, he is angry and looks down on everyone else. Petter (60) is a Norwegian renowned scriptwriter who wants to make a film about the national hero Fridtjof Nansen. Two men and one boy, one day in Oslo, whom all experiences a social and emotional fall. The film discusses the male role in the contemporary Norway.

Post-War
0h 42m
Movie 2020

Post-War

A city dweller moves through various routines and encounters throughout a single day. The gradually revealed circumstances point toward a crisis starting to unfold.

The Cock-Swan
0h 10m
Movie 2020

The Cock-Swan

At her own premiere party, Anna is sexually harassed on the dance floor. The Cock-Swan outside the club now becomes a clear symbol of the patriarchy and Anna wants to destroy the sculpture.

The Ice Cream Truck
1h 36m
Movie 2017

The Ice Cream Truck

Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.

Framing Mom
1h 34m
Movie 2016

Framing Mom

In the middle of her wedding reception, the doubtful bride Unn Tove finds a newborn baby girl abandoned in the hotel restroom. She turns her over to Child Services. 16 years later, a young and energetic girl shows up at her door step. It's Rosemari, the baby from the wedding. Together, they start investigating the circumstances leading to Rosemari's birth. They unravel a story about a young couple's unrestrained love, an eccentric ex-boxer with a taste for erotics, and a mother covering up her life's biggest secret. "Framing Mom" is a touching and funny story about how sex, lies and biology created a beautiful flower, Rosemari.

All the Beauty
1h 31m
Movie 2016

All the Beauty

Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship. The film presents three love stories about seemingly different couples; all named Sarah and David, but played by different actors in respectively their 20s, 30s and 40s.

Ego
1h 45m
Movie 2013

Ego

For Sebastian Silverberg life is all about his appearance, partying and his enormous ego. Things are going smoothly when an accident leaves him blind, forcing him to re-evaluate his life and to seek meaning beyond appearances.

All That Matters Is Past
1h 45m
Movie 2012

All That Matters Is Past

Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of William's pathologically jealous brother — in this haunting story from celebrated Norwegian director Sara Johnsen.

Biography

A Scandinavian actor known for Corridor (2012) Ego ( 2013 ) and Guidance ( 2009 ). He grew up in Botswana, Africa with five elder siblings, and parents working as doctors. His English/German/Jewish mother, and Norwegian father, brought their big family from urban city life to the rural African villages of Maun and Molepolole, where Emil spent most of his childhood and early teenage years. His interest for acting started already as a young boy when he starred in the school theatre plays and his mother came from a family of Jewish actors, artists and musicians, but after the war they were spread all over the world. Coming back to Norway as a teenager, Emil started to pursue his acting career, and he left for New York City and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

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