Pilou Asbaek

Pilou Asbæk
Asbæk at the Berlin Film Festival 2010
Born	Johan Philip Asbæk (1982-03-02) 2 March 1982 (age 34) Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	Danish National School of Theatre
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2008–present
Known for	Borgen
Spouse(s)
Children	Agnes Bro Asbæk

Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk (Danish pronunciation: [pʰiˈluː ˈæːsb̥ɛɡ̊]; born 2 March 1982) is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles as troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul on the Danish TV political drama Borgen, and Euron Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.

Asbæk was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of gallery owners Maria Patricia (née Tonn) and Jacob A. Asbæk, who run Galerie Asbæk in Copenhagen. His mother was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to a Danish father and a French mother. His father is from Hammel, Denmark. He has two older brothers, Thomas Asbæk, an art consultant at Asbæk Art Consulting, and Martin Asbæk, a gallery owner at Martin Asbæk Gallery.

Asbæk went to boarding school at Herlufsholm School where he was active in drama productions. He graduated from Denmark's National School of Theatre in summer 2008.

In 2009, Asbæk played soldier David Grüner in an episode of the second season of another Danish TV series, The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen).

From 2010 to 2013, Asbæk played the spin-doctor, Kasper Juul, in the critically lauded Danish TV series Borgen written by Tobias Lindholm about the politics of a female Prime Minister of Denmark. Asbæk's performance was uniformly praised by critics. In 2014, the Danish public-funded DR cast Asbæk as Didrich, a landowner suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, in a big-budget period TV series called 1864.