Henrik Mestad

Acting

Henrik Mestad

Born

1964-06-22 (62)

Place of birth

Oslo, Norway

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Henrik Mestad is a Norwegian actor who is known from stage, film and TV. Mestad has been employed by the National Theater since 1991. He is known from television series such as Occupied and Norsemen, as well as films such as Svarte pantere and Børning.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Narvik poster
6.8

April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.

Narvik

2022

Asphalt Burning poster
5.6

The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.

Asphalt Burning

2020

Sick of Myself poster
7.1

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

Sick of Myself

2022

No artwork available
NR

Upcomming movie based on Norways most sold frozen pizza. Grandiosa

Ekte kjærlighet

2027

Cows poster
7.0

The hyped French philosopher Malentende visits Sweden to present a groundbreaking hypothesis. Professors are ecstatic as they gather during the break to dissect the meaning of his words. Intellectual reasoning takes unexpected leaps in this wildly humorous film about the perils of blindly following authority.

Cows

2025

No Comment poster
5.7

Prime Minister Alma Solvik gets caught up in a scandal before elections. During Alma's term in power, her husband Sondre has done transactions on the stock exchange apparently using the government's inside information. Alma puts together a crisis communication HQ that formulates the tactics for communicating with the public. The Prime Minister is also a prime minister at home and therefore they launch the campaign "Sondre is the culprit" – the elections must be won, after all.

No Comment

2025

Clue: The Maltese Mystery poster
7.5

The same day that Cecilia and Une meet Leo for the first time, a corpse appears on the beach in Skutebukta. Who is he and what does he have to do with Cecilia’s mother’s death the year before?

Clue: The Maltese Mystery

2021

2002 (Year of the Horse) poster
5.5

Teenagers Noah and Ingrid declare their love for each other in her upstairs bedroom. Downstairs her parents are splitting up.

2002 (Year of the Horse)

2021

2010s · 10 titles

Burning poster
6.4

For all who remember Cannonball Run. Here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North Cape. The only rule is getting there first!

Burning

2014

Burning 2 poster
6.3

After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.

Burning 2

2016

A Somewhat Gentle Man poster
6.5

After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.

A Somewhat Gentle Man

2010

Wildwitch poster
4.9

12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a very special Wild Witch and that her blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bravita Bloodyoung.

Wildwitch

2018

The Lion Woman poster
6.8

Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he hides her away from the world in their apartment. However, Eva’s nanny fights for her right to be treated like everyone else.

The Lion Woman

2016

Jackpot poster
6.0

Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.

Jackpot

2011

The Orheim Company poster
6.3

A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.

The Orheim Company

2012

Going West poster
5.2

An unemployed music teacher takes his estranged transgender parent on a road trip to the west coast of Norway, in order to honor his late mother's excellent quilting skills.

Going West

2018

Glass Dolls poster
5.4

A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.

Glass Dolls

2014

No artwork available
NR

On a deserted upper-class beach, two men sell a unique experience, a one-hour journey for the soul.

Molo

2011

2000s · 17 titles

Reprise poster
7.1

Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.

Reprise

2006

Most People Live in China poster
5.9

A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.

Most People Live in China

2002

The Art of Negative Thinking poster
6.7

The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.

The Art of Negative Thinking

2006

Utkant poster
NR

Two brothers isolated on a remote island during a viral outbreak discover a drifting boat heading their way.

Utkant

2007

Angry Man poster
7.0

A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.

Angry Man

2009

The Greatest Thing poster
9.0

In the late 1860s, after becoming engaged to three bachelors in the town, Petra flees from an angry mob and seeks refuge in a rectory. Based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten".

The Greatest Thing

2001

Gone with the Woman poster
6.3

A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.

Gone with the Woman

2007

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death poster
6.1

Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

2008

United poster
6.2

Kåre is a youth coach with aspirations to become the greatest football player ever like his idol, Bryan Robson. However, his dreams are starting to take a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Anna.

United

2003

The Radio Pirates poster
3.0

Karl Jonathan and his father leave the city for the father's childhood home but soon realize that the entire village of "Skjelleruten" has been transformed into a safe society, where children are protected from behaving like children. Karl Jonathan and his new friend, Sisseline, start an uprising against the model village with the aid of a closed-down pirate radio, but the model citizens refuse to give in without a fight!

The Radio Pirates

2007

Sons poster
6.8

Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in Lars, and he embarks on a crusade to stop the abuser. But it soon spins out of control, and Lars' actions end up endangering those he set out to protect.

Sons

2006

The 7 Deadly Sins poster
8.0

Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

The 7 Deadly Sins

2000

Night of the Wolf poster
5.3

During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechen terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage drama is transmitted live worldwide. Meanwhile, behind the scene, the police negotiator and a special police unit are working to try to rescue the hostages.

Night of the Wolf

2008

No artwork available
5.0

Six people meet in a room in order to discuss pornography, rape and Mother's Day.

Fråtseri

2000

Ballen i øyet poster
5.0

While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.

Ballen i øyet

2000

Orps: The Movie poster
5.8

A fiendish conductor takes over a school band. She eliminates five musicians who then form their own ensemble. With the help of their former conductor, the new band enters The Norwegian Championship against their old band.

Orps: The Movie

2009

No artwork available
NR

A television broadcast of the National Theatre's performance Jeppe på Bjerget with Bjarte Hjelmeland's critically acclaimed and award-winning interpretation of Jeppe.

Jeppe on the Hill

2004

Series credits

All Against All poster
8.0

Who are the most knowledgeable celebrities Norway has to offer? Well-known Norwegians face off in a tough and entertaining battle of brains.

All Against All

2020

All Against All poster
8.0

Who are the most knowledgeable celebrities Norway has to offer? Well-known Norwegians face off in a tough and entertaining battle of brains.

All Against All

2020

Detective Hole poster
7.4

When a series of ritualistic murders hits Oslo, a gifted detective must navigate a puzzle of patterns, corruption and his own demons to catch the killer.

Detective Hole

2026

Lilyhammer poster
7.3

After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.

Lilyhammer

2012

Norsemen poster
7.2

Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.

Norsemen

2016

Furia poster
7.1

Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.

Furia

2021

Occupied poster
7.1

In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.

Occupied

2015

Brille poster
8.0

Brille is a humor-based quiz show where some of Norways best known comedians get to work on seemingly impossible tasks and questions. The answers are often as unexpected and funny as the panel's train of thought.

Brille

2013

Helt perfekt poster
7.3

Fictional, close and humorous look into Thomas Giertsens life.

Helt perfekt

2011

The Know Show poster
6.8

The Know Show is a quiz show where celebrity guests expose what they don’t know. With simple questions and surprising penalties for wrong answers, the pressure makes even easy tasks a challenge.

The Know Show

2015

Pernille poster
7.8

Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and yourself. In that order. Pørni has two daughters with a jerk of an ex who has moved to Copenhagen, who focuses mainly on himself.

Pernille

2021

Dette er humor poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dette er humor

2024

Soria Moria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Soria Moria

2000

Our Best Years poster
7.4

The year is 1985. A radical left-wing family crash lands on Oslo's west side. Here, they have to fight against capitalists, socialists, cable TV and a growing right-wing wave.

Our Best Years

2024

Conspiracy of Silence poster
6.2

Robert Kastell returns to Sweden after having been presumed dead for thirty years. A personal tragedy has made him leave his exile, and sent him on a last journey of revenge

Conspiracy of Silence

2018

Torsdagsklubben poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Torsdagsklubben

2002

Eventyrlig camping poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eventyrlig camping

2024

Alltid beredt poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alltid beredt

2022

Dumbsday poster
8.0

Dumbsday is a comedy-drama which plays with the conventions of post-apocalyptic TV series. The world has gone to hell in every possible way – and only seven people have survived. The show begins with our seven main characters trapped in an under-ground train tunnel in Oslo. Will they survive? And can these people really be the future of humanity?

Dumbsday

2023

Kåss til kvelds poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kåss til kvelds

2020

Alle mot alle julespesial poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alle mot alle julespesial

2021

Jacks poster
3.5

A dramedy about a group of friends willing to risk everything on a house of cards that may collapse at any moment.

Jacks

2023

Fiskekrigen poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fiskekrigen

2025

Luftens Helter poster
6.5

Cutbacks in SAS allows the captain Odd Grenland and 2nd pilot Birger Wom get fired because they are too old. They buy a used aircraft with their own money, and together they start the company Senior Air.

Luftens Helter

2007

Boys Will Be Boys poster
6.5

A story about 4 twelve years old friends - Arne, Bønna, Petter and Eivind.

Boys Will Be Boys

2006

Behind the camera