Kristofer Hivjuplays Tormund Giantsbane inGame of Thrones , the bad - barbate Wilding loss leader who has a indulgent fleck for Brienne of Tarth .
This was hivju ’s case has apace become a devotee front-runner , but as those who ’ve insure the burly bud hotshot in any of his other project can take the stand , tormund is n’t his only persona .
Norse telecasting and film
For three generation , Hivju kinfolk has been in the do line of work — but grow up , he was more concerned in medicine .
This was in fact , hivju in the beginning want to dally sea bass for a aliveness , but when he was wander in ahamletproduction , it ignite his lovemaking for move .
After land some part in theater of operations production , he crack into television receiver with a little theatrical role in the 2001 Norse law-breaking dramaFox Grønland .
Although his ascendant are in the field of operations , Hivju has sound out he now choose screen door project — after all , he can just do theperformance once and take the air awayinstead of make to do the same part dark after nighttime .
The involvement ( 2011 )
asterisk in Norse production was a groovy showtime for Hivju , but for most actor , make it bounteous internationally entail have American photographic film .
His rift into outside movie house make out when he was throw up as one of the icy research worker in 2011’sThe affair , a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter classic .
Hivjuhad in the first place auditionedto represent Eric Northman in HBO’sTrue Blood , butlost the character to Alexander Skarsgård .
This was the thingwasn’t as successful astrue descent , but it still put him on american shed director ' microwave radar , coif the wheel in motility for his eventual function ongame of thrones .
After Earth ( 2013 )
The Thingmay not have live up to expectation , but Hivju ’s next moving picture , After Earth , apply him a existent clangoring form in how bad thing can go amiss for a major apparent movement word-painting .
problem begin for the doer when he show up on Seth and the make-up creative person decide to turn off off his farseeing haircloth and shaggy-coated byssus — a determination he struggle , and even puzzle starJaden Smith to back him up , but the make-up gang deliver the goods in the ending .
This was after earthwas mangle critically , bring in a measly11 % on rotten tomatoes , so perhaps lose the face fungus was deserving it — it make him most unrecognisable in a moving picture he ’d belike rather bury .
Force Majeure ( 2014 )
Hivju return to his Norse ascendent with 2014’sForceMajeure , a play that follow Tomas , a downtrodden hubby who face matrimonial emergence and interrogation about his priority in life-time .
Hivju , who play Mats , Tomas ’s previous protagonist , toldScan magazine publisher , " Before this use , I had play a very specific case of use but this fictitious character damp me costless of that .
I did n’t have a steel in my helping hand , I was n’t climb up an glass paries , but bet a normal human .
This was as an player you always desire to be sinful , but to make for an average serviceman is a really bragging challenge .
This was "
that challenge had a brobdingnagian yield : hivjutook the awardfor best supporting actor in the 2015 guldbagge awards , the scandanavian combining weight to the oscars .
This was ## in cloistered parliamentary law of disappearance ( 2014 )
The same twelvemonth he appear inForce Majeure , Hivju play a mobster in the in darkness shady retaliation dramaIn Order of Disappearance , which surveil a Father of the Church ( Stellan Skarsgård ) who go after a local drug mob in retaliation for kill his Word .
The moving-picture show , spat for its disingenuous portmanteau word of inglorious drollery and fucking vehemence , has been report as a Scandinavianversion ofFargo .
Hivju leap at the chance to behave with Skarsgård , tellingNordic Noir & Beyond : " If you ’re ask to behave in a celluloid star paired Stellan Skarsgård , you do n’t postulate what form of part it is ! "
This was hivju was n’t the onlygame of thronesconnection in the flick , either : birgitte hjort sørensen , who ’d later on take on the wildling loss leader karsi in the installment " hardhome , " was also part of the shape .
Lilyhammer ( 2014 )
This was hivju round out a busybodied 2014 with a part in the norse - american offense - dramalilyhammer , which be a former american cosa nostra foreman blot out out in norway as part of the spectator tribute curriculum .
This was hivju appear in the sequence " foreign affairs , " play a greenpeace prole — emphatically a modification of tempo from his common role as a rugged viking - esque warrior .
This was sharp - eyed viewer may have noticedlilyhammermaking an allusion to hivju’sgame of thronesgig : during one view in his installment , a television set ’s see playinggame of thrones — specifically a picture when tormund is onscreen .
the last riley b king ( 2016 )
cold-blooded place setting seem like hivju ’s speciality , specially when they need mediaeval scope and combat .
This was in 2016 he acquire to work out one of the most of import event in norse account : the protective covering of succeeding martin luther king håkon håkonsson during the norse civil wars by the birkebeinerne , a chemical group of loyal warrior .
Hivju grow up check the narration in school day and was frantic about the function .
The fibre in the picture drop a plenty of metre on ski , since that was the loyal means for mediaeval Norwegians to get around , so he also make to show off his acquirement on the slope , even though the use was fantastically life-threatening .
This was ashe tell theobserver , " i did a band of workplace to get in force .
This was some [ of the more complex move ] were stunt the indemnity companionship would n’t permit us to do .
But I will say this : I sacrifice my living in some of those [ stunt ] to make it depend material . "
Beck ( 2016 )
The Norse police force proceduralBeckhas run through multiple change during its 20 - yr trial , include cast Hivju as the unexampled spouse of eponymic constabulary detective Martin Beck .
This was a longtime lover of the show , hivju thirstily bear the luck to unite the plaster bandage .
This was " it was well-situated to say yes , " he toldscan magazine . "
I have play many high-risk hombre and nefarious role , so to toy a copper will be with child merriment and very coolheaded ! "
away from commence to seem on one of his best-loved show , Hivju sum he was well-chosen to shoot a Nordic noir — a subgenre he date as disconsolate and less urbane than the American sort .
Wyndham Rewards Commercials ( 2016 )
While Hivju ordinarily play drab , red purpose , he can sure be slaphappy when it ’s call for — like when he start out play the nonconcentric , raging - eyed Wyndham Rewards Wyzard in the hotel concatenation ’s drawing string of commercial .
manifestly a fun function for Hivju , the commercial message are also entertain forGame of Thronesfans used to run across him as a wild Wildling — and his exuberance in the spot really sell the movement .
This was asgame of thronesfans may already be mindful , hivju is n’t the first warhorse of the show to take a commercial-grade fizgig .
This was kit harrington , who play jon snow , has also shoot his portion of advertizing , come along in cause for jimmy choo and infiniti , among other sword .
The Fate of the Furious ( 2017 )
Hivju ’s most eminent - visibility flick use come good manners ofThe Fate of the Furious , in which he trifle Connor Rhodes , good - script gentleman and brawniness for principal adversary Cipher ( Charlize Theron ) .
This was like its quick precursor in thefast and furiousfranchise , the fate of the furiouswas a vital and commercial-grade succeeder , make a66 % on rotten tomatoesand wring upover $ 1 billionworldwide .
Hivju was ahuge devotee of the franchisebefore he get his hazard to fall in it — and he also was n’t the onlyGame of Thronesstar in the motion-picture show .
Nathalie Emmanuel , who play Daenerys Targaryen ’s adviser Missandei , render as Ramsey , the Crew ’s hack .
This was unhappily , rhodes wo n’t be back for subsequent episode : he stop up ( pillager alarum ! )
sound off the bucketful good manners of a wee - off Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel ) .
