Pilou Asbæk
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 2 March 1982 · Copenhagen, Denmark
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.
Known for
Acting 45
- 2027The Thomas Crown Affair
- 2026Hard-Wired Humanity as Self
- 2026Blood on Snow
- 2026No Rest for the Wicked as Helge
- 2025World of Westeros Ambient Video as Euron Greyjoy
- 2025The Fires as Thomas
- 2024Salem's Lot as R.T Straker
- 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
- 2022Uncharted as Gage
- 2021Outside the Wire as Victor Koval
- 2020The A-Z of Eurovision as Self - Presenter (archive footage)
- 2020Run Sweetheart Run as Ethan
- 2019Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
- 2018Overlord as Wafner
- 2018The Guardian Angel as Anders Olsen
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2011A Family as Peter
- 2010The Whistleblower as Bas
- 2010Venus as Rasmus
- 2010R as Rune
- 2009Monster Busters as Søren
- 2008Crying for Love as Oliver
- 2008Comeback as Kris
- 2008Worlds Apart as Teis