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Lilyhammer
''Lilyhammer'' is a crime comedy-drama television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York-based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway. The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers (one fifth of Norway's population), and premiered on Netflix in North America on 6 February 2012, with all eight episodes available in full for streaming on the service. ''Lilyhammer'' was promoted as "the first time Netflix offered exclusive content". The spelling of the series title alludes to Tagliano's dog Lily, killed in the first episode during an attempt on Tagliano's life, and the way that Tagliano and some other anglophones pronounce the town's name. The series produced three seasons; the final episode aired 17 December 2014. On 22 July 2015, Van Zandt posted on Twitter that the series had been cancelled, and the following day Netflix confirmed that they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He has appeared in several television drama series, including as Silvio Dante in ''The Sopranos'' (1999–2007) and as Frank Tagliano in '' Lilyhammer'' (2012–2014). Van Zandt has his own solo band called Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, intermittently active since the 1980s. In 2014, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Van Zandt has produced music, written songs, and had his own songs covered by Bruce Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Nancy Sinatra, Pearl Jam, Artists United Against Apartheid, and the Iron City Houserockers, among others. Early life Van Zandt was born Steven Lento on November 22, 1950 to Mary Henrietta (née Lento) Van Zandt and Vince Borello, in Winthrop, Massachuset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Saastad Ottesen
Astrid Marian Saastad Ottesen (born 24 November 1975) is a Norwegian actress who has been performing in theatre, television, and film since 2001. She is best known to international audiences from the Netflix series ''Lilyhammer'' and ''Norsemen''. Life and career Ottesen was born in Florø and grew up in Skien, where she attended theatre school. She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1999. Ottesen worked in several productions at Oslo Nye Teater, Centralteatret, as well as the National Theatre in Oslo, until 2006. She has since appeared in a number of television productions and films, including '' Elsk meg i morgen'' (2005), ''Gone with the Woman'' (2007), ''Lilyhammer'', and ''Norsemen''. Personal life In 2018, Ottesen married ''Norsemen'' co-star Nils Jørgen Kaalstad. Awards and recognition * Amanda Prize 2006 for '' Elsk meg i morgen'' (nominated) * Kanon Award 2007 for ''Gone with the Woman'' (won) * Amanda Prize 2008 for ''Gone with the Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trond Fausa Aurvåg
Trond Fausa Aurvåg (born 2 December 1972) is a Norwegian actor, film director, and poet. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2001, he has acted at Oslo Nye Teater since 2001. Here he has acted in plays such as ''Amadeus'', ''Manndomsprøven'' and ''Tatt av kvinnen''. As a film actor he is best known for his leading roles in the films ''Andreaskorset'' (2004) and ''Den brysomme mannen'' (2006). He has also starred in the music video for Lemaitre's song "We Got U". He won two Amandas—the main Norwegian film award—in 2006, for best actor for his role in ''Den brysomme mannen'', and for the short film ''Alene menn sammen'', which he directed. He gained some international attention co-starring with Steven Van Zandt in the TV series ''Lilyhammer'', playing Van Zandt's partner in crime. For this role he won the Gullruten Award in 2014 for best actor. He will be part of Christopher Nolans next movie Oppenheimer to premiere this summer port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Bak
Frans Bak (born 7 February 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked as a jazz performer and composer of film music. In 1994, he founded the composer's association Den 3. Vej. He plays saxophone, keyboards, and piano. Bak was a member of the bands Blast, Buztop, Santa Cruz, Det Glatte Lag, and Jazzgruppe 90. He was the leader of a quartet and of a big band that included Bob Berg and Randy Brecker. He recorded with Hans Ulrik on the album ''Fusion''. He wrote the score for the Danish television series ''Forbrydelsen'' and American remake, '' The Killing'' on AMC. He worked on ''Lilyhammer'' on NRK1/Netflix starring Steven Van Zandt, the British adaption of the Ruth Rendell novel '' Thirteen Steps Down'' and in 2015 the first series of ''Doctor Foster'' for the BBC. Bak has scored commercials, short films, and feature films, including three Academy Award-nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Mestad
Henrik Mestad (born 22 June 1964) is a Norwegian stage, film, and television actor. He received the Hedda Award in 2011. Mestad was born in Oslo as a son of the politician Viking Mestad. He is educated at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and was hired at Nationaltheatret in 1991. As a dramatist, Mestad penned and starred in the plays ''Lik meg når jeg er teit'' (1993) and ''Nansens sønn'' (2002), both of which played at Nationaltheatret. On the screen, he has starred in '' Svarte pantere'' (1992), '' Vestavind'' (TV series, 1994–95), ''Sons'' (2006), '' The Art of Negative Thinking'' and '' Tatt av kvinnen'' (2007). In 2013-2014, he co-starred in seasons two and three of the Netflix original series ''Lilyhammer ''Lilyhammer'' is a crime comedy-drama television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York-based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway. The first season premiered on ...''. From 2015– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municipality include Fåberg, Hunderfossen, Jørstadmoen, Vingnes, and Vingrom. The municipality is the 211th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Lillehammer is the 38th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 28,425. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 6.2% over the previous 10-year period. The town of Lillehammer is the largest urban centre in the municipality. It lies in the central part of the municipality and it is surrounded by more rural areas. The town centre is a late nineteenth-century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. Lille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Nordin
Sven Audun Nordin (born 6 February 1957 in Oslo) is a Norwegian actor. He was hired by Oslo Nye Teater in the autumn of 1981 and had his debut in the play "Vikinger" by Johan Borgen. He is best known for his roles as Nils in the situation comedy '' Mot i brøstet'' and Kjell Bjarne in the Academy Award–nominated film ''Elling''. Select filmography *1985: ''The Last Place on Earth'' as Trygve Gran *1985: '' Rød snø'' (TV series) *1987: '' Over grensen'' as Jensen, a witness *1987: '' På stigende kurs'' * 1990: '' Smykketyven'' *1993: '' Mot i brøstet'' (TV series) *1995: '' Pakten'' *1999: ''Suffløsen'' *2001: ''Elling'' *2002: '' Ice Age'' (Norwegian dub) as Diego *2002: '' Shackleton'' (TV) *2002: '' I Am Dina'' *2003: '' Mamma, pappa, barn'' *2005: '' Deadline Torp'' (Tv series) *2005: ''An Enemy of the people'' *2005: '' Love Me Tomorrow'' *2005: '' Hos Martin'' (TV series) *2006: ''An Immortal Man'' as Knud Ibsen *2010: ''Shameless'' *2011: ''Sons of Norway'' *2012: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Krigsvoll
Anne Katharine Krigsvoll (born 4 February 1957) is a Norwegian actress. She debuted at Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre) in 1982, and has worked there since. Here she has had roles such as "Shui Ta" in Brecht's ''The Good Person of Sezuan'', and "Dorine" in Molière's ''Tartuffe''. In 2002 she also had great success as "Martha" in Edward Albee's ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''. Krigsvoll has also worked in film and television, and in 1988 won the Amanda Award for her role in the TV-series "Av måneskinn gror det ingenting". She has been married four times. Select filmography * '' On the Threshold'' (1984) * "Av måneskinn gror det ingenting" (TV, 1987) * '' Brun bitter'' (1988) * ''For dagene er onde'' (1991) * "Vestavind" (TV, 1994) * "Brødrene Dal og legenden om Atlant-Is" (TV, 1994) * ''Aldri mer 13!'' (1996) * "Offshore" (TV, 1996) * '' Uro'' (2006) * "Berlinerpoplene" (TV, 2007) * ''Lilyhammer'' (TV, 2012) References External links * Interviewin Dagbladet. Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRK1
NRK1 (pronounced as ''"NRK en"'' or ''"- ein"'') is the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's (NRK) main television channel. History Test broadcasts started on 12 January 1954, regular test broadcasts started on 13 April 1958 and regular broadcasts started on 20 August 1960. It is Norway's oldest and largest television channel and was the country's only free-to-air television channel until the launch of TV 2 in 1992. The channel was formerly known as NRK Fjernsynet (NRK Television), but its name was coloquially abbreviated as just NRK or Fjernsynet ("the television"). On January 1, 1996, the channel was renamed NRK1, aiming at the launch of NRK2 later in the year (on September 1). Programming Besides its own productions, the channel also broadcasts co-productions with other Nordic countries through Nordvision, as well as a significant amount of programmes from English-speaking countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, all in the original language with N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ' retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Dante
Silvio Manfred Dante is a fictional character on the HBO TV series ''The Sopranos'', played by Steven Van Zandt. He is the consigliere and right-hand man to Tony Soprano in the DiMeo crime family. John Magaro portrays a young Silvio Dante in the 2021 prequel film, '' The Many Saints of Newark''. Character biography According to ''The Sopranos, A Family History'', Silvio was born in June 1957 in West Orange, New Jersey. His father was Joseph "Beppo" Dante, of Calabrian origin, a soldier who was gunned down in 1959. Silvio was a childhood friend of Tony Soprano. His early criminal activity often involved Tony and Jackie Aprile, Sr. His original career plan was to be a professional singer, but this dream never materialized. Despite this, Silvio has maintained a connection to show business through ownership of numerous clubs in North Jersey over the years, and in backing aspiring young starlets who come up through his clubs. Silvio's support was instrumental in ensuring Tony to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster, portraying his difficulties as he tries to balance family life with his role as leader of a criminal organization. These are explored during his therapy sessions with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco). The series features Tony's family members, mafia colleagues, and rivals in prominent roles—most notably his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and his protégé/distant cousin Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli). The pilot was ordered in 1997, and the show premiered on HBO on January 10, 1999. The series ran for six seasons totaling 86 episodes until June 10, 2007. Broadcast syndication followed in the U.S. and internationally. ''The Sopranos'' was produced by HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television. It was primarily filmed at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City in Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
