Åsleik Engmark

Åsleik Engmark (born 27 December 1965 in Oslo) is a Norwegian comedian, actor and director, living in Oslo.

Engmark was one of the co-founders of the Norwegian cabaret group Lompelandslaget in 1987. In 1988 at the age of 22, he appeared at Det Norske Teatret (The Norwegian Theatre) in Oslo, in the Norwegian original cast of Les Misérables, the third Cameron Mackintosh Les Mis production in the world. He stayed in the ensemble of the Det Norske Teatret until 1999.

In Norway he became known during the nineties through Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), especially on the weekly satire Egentlig, an equivalent to Saturday Night Live. Today Engmark is working as a director, writer, songwriter, comedian and a singer. He performs comedy in both Norwegian and English. In Norway he is also well known for his many dubbing film voices, such as Timon in the Norwegian version of The Lion King.

In 2009 Engmark made his debut as a film director, with the children's movie Knerten (Twigson English version) (Mein Freund Knerten German version), based upon the books of Norwegian author Anne-Cath. Vestly. Knerten became a huge box office hit and has been seen by over 370000 viewers in Norway. Among many festivals, it participated in the official Generation K Plus section of the Berlinale 2010 in Berlin and at Sprockets Film Festival 2010 in Toronto.

At the Norwegian Film Awards 2010 Amandaprisen Knerten was awarded for Best Childrens movie, Best Art Design and Best Visual Effects.

In autumn 2010 he won the Norwegian version of Strictly Come Dancing, called Skal vi danse

Film and television actor appearances

Theatre and stage appearances

Director, writer, composer

'2013 Småtingsvalg 2013 co-writer, cabaret

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