Tall and handsome actor Pål Sverre Hagen is one of Norway's most popular and versatile actors. He is best known for his interpretation of famous Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, in the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated film Kon-Tiki.
Hagen graduated from the National Academy of the Arts in 2003, and made his breakthrough on screen in the film Troubled Water in 2008, where he baffled film critics and audiences alike with his strong performance as a young con man. The film won Hagen the Kanon Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He later won the Kanon Award for best Supporting Role in Storm in My Heart (2009).
In the 2014 film Kraftidioten (translated: The Power Idiot), Hagen plays a despicable drug baron called The Count. He is the main antagonist of the film and plays alongside Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård among others.
