- Born
- Birth nameJohan Philip Pilou Asbæk
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Pilou Asbæk graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2008. In the same year, he played the leading role in Niels Arden Oplev's drama Worlds Apart. In 2010 he had his breakthrough as the inmate Rune in Lindholm & Noer's prison drama R for which he won the prize for Best actor at The Danish Critic Association Award, Bodil, and at the Danish Film Academy Awards, Robert. Furthermore, he was pointed as Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2011 for this performance; an honor that is given to ten European Actors. Also, for three years he starred in the BAFTA winning and critically acclaimed television series Borgen as Kasper Juul; spin doctor for the Danish Prime Minister. The following years Pilou played the leading role in Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking and A War. A War was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2015. In 2014, Pilou shot Luc-Besson's LUCY starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, and this year he played Pontius Pilate in Timur Bekmambetov's BEN-HUR. In 2017 he again played opposite Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sander's Ghost in the Shell as Batou. Pilou has starred as Euron Greyjoy in the 6th and 7th seasons of HBO's acclaimed series Game of Thrones.- IMDb mini biography by: Art Management
- SpouseAnna Bro(? - present)
- ChildrenAsbæk,Agnes
- ParentsMaria AsbaekJacob A Asbaek
- At his audition for Euron Greyjoy in Game of Thrones (2011), he improvised the second out of 2 scenes. His email hadn't worked so he'd only received the first scene. Never had he been so unprepared for an audition before, he said himself.
- Son of Maria (Tonn) and Jacob A. Asbæk. His parents run the gallery Galerie Asbæk in Copenhagen. His father is Danish, from Hammel, Denmark. His mother was born in Casablanca, Morocco, of Danish and French descent.
- 2011: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
- The name Pilou is a French word for "fleece" (the fabric).
- When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
- If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.
- The most exciting thing about joining 'Game Of Thrones' is joining 'Game Of Thrones.'
- I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean?
- I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.
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