- Born
- Height5′ 11½″ (1.82 m)
- Jakob Oftebro (Born 1986, Oslo, Norway) is a charismatic Scandinavian Actor.
Oftebro started his education in acting at the reputable Norwegian Academy of Performing Arts in 2008. While studying, he also played a small role in Max Manus: Man of War (2008). He later worked with the same directors of Max Manus in the Oscar-nominated epic Kon-Tiki. (2012).
Oftebro received even bigger parts after Kon-Tiki, playing the Lead of Johannes in the Knut Hamsun adaptation Victoria (2013). He later played the Leading role in the Swedish film The Hidden Child (2013). This too was an adaptation based on the works of a best-selling author.
In 2014, Oftebro stars in the Danish epic war series, 1864. The TV series has one of the biggest budgets in Danish television history.
- IMDb mini biography by: Foreign Elite
- Parents
- Bold green eyes
- Born and raised in Norway, Jakob has taught himself Danish by watching old classic movies from Denmark as well as moving to the capital Copenhagen. As a result, he is an actor in both countries.
- Son of actor Nils Ole Oftebro.
- Is the second youngest person to have ever attended The Oslo Academy of the Arts.
- Was a Norwegian Shooting Star in the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014.
- Stepson of actress Anette Hoff.
- Everybody's different and it's okay to be different, and it's okay not to be accepted by the coolest guys.
- From when I was ten years of age I wanted to be an actor, so of course I was different, I was very focused.
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