Torfinn Nag

Torfinn Nag in Sogndalstrand , 2010.

Torfinn Nag (born January 7, 1956 in Madla near Stavanger , Norway) is a Norwegian actor and director .

Career

Nag went to the Statens Teaterhøgskole (State Theater School) in Oslo after his school education , where he completed an acting training. He then went to the Rogaland Teater from 1983 to 1986 and from 1986 to 1989 at the Norwegian Fjernsynsteatre (television theater) and from 1990 to 1991 at Det Norske Teatret . In total, Nag worked for more than 28 years as a theater actor and theater director at various theaters throughout Norway and in countless plays , revues , musicals and various theater shows. Nag is also active as a film actor in several Norwegian film and television productions . He also worked as a screenwriter and director for various television series .

Filmography (film and television)

actor

• 1987: Fri (TV movie)
• 1987: Tartuffe (TV movie)
• 1987: Colaengelen (TV movie)
• 1988: Til lykke med dagen (TV movie)
• 1988: Straffe (TV movie)
• 1988: Overgivelse (TV movie)
• 1988: Fysikerne (TV movie)
• 1989: ... av hensyn til rikets sikkerhet (TV movie)
• 1989: De hvite bussene
• 1989: Bryllups Festival
• 1989: Heavenly Planets (TV series)
• 1990: Herman and the King of Belgium ( Herman )
• 1991: Fedrelandet (mini series)
• 1992: I lånte fjær (feature film)
• 1993: Fortuna (TV series)
• 1996: Maja Stone Face ( Maja Steinansikt )
• 1996–1998: Family saga De syv søstre (TV series)
• 2001: Olsenbandens første kupp ( Christmas series )
• 2003: En Folkefiende
• 2004: Nettopp nå (TV series)
• 2004: Taperaksje (TV series)
• 2004: Monsterthursday - Wavelengths ( Monstertorsdag )
• 2009: Opptur
• 2014: Generasjon 2.0
• 2014: Mammon (TV series)
• 2016: The King's Choice - Attack on Norway ( Kongens nei )
• 2019: Hjelperytteren
• 2019: Commissioner Wisting ( Wisting , TV series)
• 2020: Bloody Trip ( Bloodride , TV series)

Director

• 2002: Far og sønn (TV series on TV 2 )
• 1998–2003: Hotel Cæsar (soap opera)
• 2004: Kodeord: Pølse (short film, Sandnes Kino)
• 2006: One road (short film)
• 2008: Andra avenyn by Peter Falck (Swedish TV series in SVT 1 )

Screenwriter

• 1998: Hotel Cæsar - script and script writer

Director at the theater

• 1995: Drillos - old for Norge! (Youth theater with Kristoffer Joner and Stian Kristiansen at the rock club Checkpoint Charlie)
• 1997–2000: Sluppefolket by Alfred Hauge (at the annual Utvandrerfestivalen in Stavanger Havn )
• 1998: The Löwenherz Brothers by Astrid Lindgren ( Rogaland Teater , children's theater)
• 1999–2000: Millennium Show on the Stavanger Torg
• 2000: Skremt fra gjemselen (revue with Per Inge Torkelsen and Steinar Lyse on the Stavangeren Kultur- og revyscene (Stavanger culture and revue scene))
• 2000: Kom tilbake, Gabriel (Finnish: Gabriel, tule takaisin ; German: Gabriel, come back) by Mika Waltari (Rogaland Teater)
• 2001: Nei takk, begge deler (No thanks, both of us) by Michael Frayn (Rogaland Teater, guest performance by Teatret Vårt in Molde )
• 2001: Jubileumforestilling (anniversary event) by Arne Garborg (in Storstova på Jæren in Jæren )
• 2001–2005: Klokkene i Vammelsund (the annual Strandaspelet (beach game) in Sogndalsstrand )
• 2002: Hjemkomsten (English: The Homecoming ; German: Die Heimkehr) by Harold Pinter (Rogaland Teater, guest performance by Den Nationale Scene -Theater)
• 2003: Gudlabadne te na mor from «Ajax» alias Andreas Jacobsen ; (Rogaland Teater)
• 2003: One For the road by Harold Pinter (at Entre 13 from Tou Scene in Stavanger )
• 2004: Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe… English: Busybody , German: D'Putzfrau als Detektiv or Katharina die Kühne by Jack Popplewell ( Oslo Nye Teater , Centralteatret )
• 2004: Fame of David de Silva in the Sola Kulturhus in Sola (Norway)
• 2005: Utlendingen (The Foreigner) by Larry Shue (Oslo Nye Teater, Centralteatret )
• 2006: Hansel and Gretel by Stuart Paterson (Den Nationale Scene, Store Scene)
• 2007: Harald Hårfagre from Erling Gjelsvik (open-air theater in Hafrsfjord )
• 2007: Begav meg i Bergen (Buried me in Bergen) by Gunnar Staalesen ( Den Nationale Scene , Store Scene)
• 2008: To skilte menn (Divorced Men) by Maria Lundberg ( Sogn og Fjordane Teater )
• 2008: Lenden (Lars H. Lende) by Per Inge Torkelsen (theater hall in the Rogaland Teater)
• 2009: The caretaker ( Vaktmeisteren ) by Harold Pinter (Det Norske Teatret)
• 2009: Press Play (Musical), ( Ny Musikal , Universitetet i Agder and Agder teater )
• 2009: Hårfagre by Erling Gjelsvik (open-air theater in Lundsneset )
• 2009: Nymalt (student revue on Folken in Stavanger)
• 2010: Dyrene i Hakkebakkeskogen (Klaus Klettermaus) by Thorbjørn Egner (Den Nationale Scene, new production)
• 2010: Pinter møter Beckett (Pinter versus Beckett), ( Kjøkkenheisen og Sluttspill ) in the Nordland Teater
• 2010–2011: I gode og galne dager (In the good and on the bad days) by Philip LaZebnik and Kingsley Day , Stavangeren Kultur- og revyscene (Stavanger culture and revyscene) in Stavanger , directed together with Pål Kvammen
• 2011: Bibi og Linn står opp på feil fot (Bibi and Linn on the wrong foot), monologues by Franca Rame and Dario Fo at Haugesund Teater

Web links

• Torfinn Nag in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography about Torfinn Nag in the store Norske Leksikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kunnskapsforlagets Media Encyclopedia: Biography about Torfinn Nag. In: Store Norske Leksikon . February 14, 2009, accessed June 27, 2012 (Norwegian).