Whatever the billing, Ane Dahl Torp is a Norwegian actress through and through, the sort of presence that makes a cast feel lived in. 'The Wave' is the credit that has traveled the widest, as Idun Karlsen. 'The Ugly Stepsister' is the other job people connect her with. The career covers 24 years of on-camera work.
Ane Dahl Torp
Actress
51 years (Aug 1, 1975)Bærum, Norway
Whatever the billing, Ane Dahl Torp is a Norwegian actress through and through, the sort of presence that makes a cast feel lived in. 'The Wave' is the credit that has traveled the widest, as Idun Karlsen. 'The Ugly Stepsister' is the other job people connect her with. The career covers 24 years of on-camera work.
Ane Dahl Torp (born August 1, 1975, in Bærum) is a Norwegian actress.
After training in drama, she began her career in theatre before moving into television and film in the early 2000s. She gained recognition in Norway through her roles in television series such as Svarte penger, hvite løgner (2004) and films such as Pedersen: High-School Teacher (Gymnaslærer Pedersen, 2006) and Cold Lunch (Lønsj, 2008), earning several Amanda Awards for her performances.
On television, her credits include the political thriller series Occupied (Okkupert, 2015–2020) and the lead role of coach Helena Mikkelsen in the drama series Home Ground (Heimebane, 2018–2019). In cinema, she starred in disaster films such as The Wave (Bølgen, 2015) and its sequel The Quake (Skjelvet, 2018), as well as Amanda Kernell's drama Charter (2020), which won her the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress.