Actors of the Vikings Biography

Get one most read article once a day. Join us on Facebook and VKontakte. Subscription can be unsubscribed at any time. The series "Vikings" was released in March and instantly produced a splash.

Despite the fact that the plot of the series is not strictly historical and in it there is more than enough fictional elements, it was he who determined the image of the Vikings in the view of many. However, how recognizable are the actors who play the roles of militant Scandinavians in real life? In our review, we offer to see how the makeup changes and the clothes of the actors in the famous series.

Travis Fimmel, with his blond hair and blue eyes, seems to be the embodiment of a real Scandinava. However, in fact, the actor was born on the other side of the planet - in Australia. Initially, he planned to become a football player, and despite the fact that these plans were not destined to come true, Travis remained faithful to sports to this day, at every opportunity visiting the gym.

Travis Fimmel. Katherine Vinnik is also not a Scandinavian. Katherine is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian origin. Despite the fact that Katherine was born already in Canada, until eight years old she spoke only in Ukrainian, later continuing to study at the Ukrainian school in Toronto. Katherine, like Travis Fimmel, has been involved in sports since childhood - in the case of Katherine, this is taekwondo.

To date, she has a black belt 3 is given in this sport, she is also a silver medalist in Taekwondo in Canada and has received a license of a bodyguard. Alexander plays the first -born Ragnara. Of course, before Alexander appeared in the series, Björna played another actor much younger. But in fact, the Canadian himself participates in the filming of childhood - he got his first role at 8 years old, and today he already had 16 films on his account.

At the same time, the popularity to the actor came long before the Vikings - in the year Alexander starred in the science fiction film "Sunrise of Darkness". For British Clive Standen, the role of Rollo is not the first in the historical picture - before that he played Sir Gawain in the series “Camelot”, as well as Archer, who later became the following Robin Gud in the series “Robin Hood”.

In addition, the actor from childhood knows how to ride a horse, fight with swords and swords and is a professional fighter of Muay Tai. Gustaf is one of the few real Scandinavians on the set of Vikings. Gustaf is the son of the famous Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgord and the brother of the no less famous brothers Alexander and Bill Skarsgords, who are also actors.

Being a rather high cm, the Australian Alissa Sasrand is a professional model, and worked with many large companies, including Bulgari, Ralph Lauren, Garnier, Calvin Klein, Chanel and Hugo Boss. Alissa’s cinema has mainly quite inconspicuous and secondary roles, unlike the series “Vikings”, where she got to play one of the main characters. According to Maud Hurst, at first she wanted to build a gymnast’s career, but then she changed her mind and decided to become an actress.

Which, in general, was quite seductive, given that Papa Mod is a screenwriter and producer of several series, including Tudors and Vikings. British Linas Roach has an impressive filmography, he began to act in the year and nomination for the Golden Globe as “the best actor in the television series” for the role of Robert Kennedy in “R. Mo also has several awards on his account, which is true, not as serious as Linas Rouch can boast.

For his role, Patrick in the film “Patrick Day”, MO, received awards at once at five different European festivals. He also starred in episodic roles in the “Game of Thrones” and “Tudors”. Unlike some of his colleagues on the set, the Englishman George Blagden wanted to become an actor from the very beginning and went to his goal rather purposefully. After graduating from school, he went to study the acting marriage and was later chosen as one of the four students to participate in the master class of Sir Ian McCellen.

He still continues to play on stage, but on the big screen he can still be seen in the series of “Black Mirror” - “Hang the DJ”. For the first time, Jenny appeared on television in the year in the series “Purely English Murder”. Now in her filmography there are already 10 series and five films, the most striking of which remains just the series “Vikings”. Another Scandinav of them is really anything in this series - the Danish Alex Hyug Andersen, who will turn 25 this year.

Before the series “Vikings”, Alex starred in several Danish paintings, so that the role of Ivar is his, so to speak, breakthrough into a large screen. Marco is another Danish in the series. In addition to the acting, he also develops his sports career - Marco has been playing professional football since childhood and is now playing for Karlewund. In our article "Pravda of the Vikings" we talk about seven common myths that have nothing to do with reality.

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