A graduate of the Danish National School of Theatre, Pilou Asbæk (Copenhagen, 1982) first moved local audiences in 2009 with his performance as a crippled Iraq veteran in the Emmy-nominated Danish series The Killing II. Last year he impressed once again in the prison drama R [+see also:
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