Jon Øigarden

Jon Øigarden is a Norwegian actor.

Works

The Rookie

Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.

Release Date2018-10-16

Charactersd Lukas Wegner

Episode Count1

Vote Count2919

Ripper Street

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

Release Date2012-12-30

Charactersd Bo Nystrom

Episode Count1

Vote Count185

Wisting

Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.

Release Date2019-04-11

Charactersd Terje Nordbø

Episode Count3

Vote Count106

Norsemen

Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.

Release Date2016-10-21

Charactersd Jarl Varg

Episode Count18

Vote Count197

The Birdcatcher

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

Release Date2019-03-08

Charactersd Gestapo Officer

Vote Count65

Exit

Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.

Release Date2019-09-27

Charactersd Jeppe Schøitt

Episode Count24

Vote Count67

37½

A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"

Release Date2005-01-28

Charactersd Trygve

Vote Count4

Furia

Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.

Release Date2021-09-26

Charactersd Reporter

Episode Count2

Vote Count116

Å begrave en hund

How far are you willing to go to keep your childhood best friends? Probably not far enough.

Release Date2013-06-07

Charactersd Sjefen

In Order of Disappearance

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

Release Date2014-02-21

Charactersd Karsten

Vote Count654

Detector

Daniel Jor is a 28-year-old psychiatrist, still living with his mom. He and his friend Ronny have one thing in common, they like searching for metallic objects in the ground. One day they find a jewel with the name "Janne" imprinted. This is the beginning of something big for Daniel. His life will never be the same. He's about to discover a lot of hidden secrets, about himself and others.

Release Date2000-08-25

Charactersd Kenneth

Vote Count17

Dag

Meet Dag, a couple's therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is about to change radically when Eva enters his life.

Release Date2010-09-30

Charactersd Isak

Episode Count1

Vote Count40

A Storm for Christmas

A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, and some who want to fly away and escape Christmas. But in one way or another, their Christmas mission goes awry. They are all stranded at the airport and the clock is ticking… only 24 hours till Christmas – so what do they do?

Release Date2022-12-16

Charactersd Marius

Episode Count6

Vote Count54

Curling King

Once a great curling star, Truls Paulsen is diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and banned from competition. But when he learns that his old friend and coach Gordon is on his deathbed, Truls, heavily-medicated decides to compete again, in the hopes of winning money for Gordon to have an operation in the US. Truls stops taking the meds and tries to convince his old team mates that he is mentally stable enough to lead them to victory in the Norwegian Curling Championship. But, is it a good sign that he obsessively insists his teammates pull their zippers all the way up before they can play?

Release Date2011-09-23

Charactersd Marcus

Vote Count30

Gold Run

Fredrik isn’t the bravest of men, but now he is faced with a great responsibility and an enormous task - to get the entire Norwegian gold reserve away from the Nazis during the invasion of Norway.

Release Date2022-12-15

Charactersd Fredrik Haslund

Vote Count139

Comrade Pedersen

A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

Release Date2006-02-24

Charactersd Harald Tholfsen

Vote Count23

Helt perfekt

Fictional, close and humorous look into Thomas Giertsens life.

Release Date2011-09-21

Charactersd Himself

Episode Count131

Vote Count7

Norwegian Ninja

Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force discovers that the sinister NATO force Stay Behind, who take charge in times of war and emergency, are planning a coup-d'état in peacetime. Treholt and the Ninjas see only one solution: a full can of whoop-ass.

Release Date2010-08-13

Charactersd Otto Meyer

Vote Count27

A Mouse Hunt for Christmas

A small mouse family plans a quiet Christmas outside the city, but their celebration is disrupted when humans unexpectedly appear. As the mice try to hide their preparations, the humans react to the noises behind the walls with determination.

Release Date2025-11-06

Charactersd Skadedyrutrydder

Vote Count8

Chasing Berlusconi

The slightly chubby harness racer Bjarte doesn't get the good horses anymore, and is forced to enter the criminal path in order to keep menacing creditors at bay. A fatal choice of partners ends up in a failed doping attempt, and a consequent kidnapping of the top horse Berlusconi.

Release Date2014-09-05

Charactersd Nico

Vote Count7

22 July

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Release Date2018-10-04

Charactersd Geir Lippestad

Vote Count1237

The Wendy Effect

In the shadows of the outskirts of Oslo, every criminal has their place until the economical meltdown. The luxury prostitute Wendy might have the key to the problem, or at least to the heart of the bank, the criminals and even the police.

Release Date2015-09-11

Charactersd Nico

Vote Count5

Mammon

Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life’s biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother’s family.

Release Date2014-01-01

Charactersd Peter Veras

Episode Count6

Vote Count22

People in the Sun

Two couples decide to spend their Midsummer holiday together and make it an evening to remember — a traditional summer comedy, except for the fact that it's the end of the world.

Release Date2011-03-04

Charactersd Stig

Vote Count14

The ABCs of Death

An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

Release Date2013-03-08

Charactersd Bertie the Bulldog (segment "H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion") (voice)

Vote Count626

Battle of Oslo

April 9th, 1940, Norway is under siege. As German warships close in on Oslo, Colonel Birger Eriksen, commander of the undermanned Oscarsborg Fortress, makes a bold decision that changes the course of history.

Release Date2025-09-26

Charactersd Kommandør Per Askim

Vote Count13

Rafiki

Three friends - Julie, Mette and Naisha - are enjoying the first snow in the village. They have snowball fights with the boys and look forward to Christmas. One day Naisha suddenly disappears. With a secret address written in invisible ink as their only clue, they sneak onto the night train to the city. They need to find Naisha before the police do.

Release Date2009-10-28

Charactersd Abrahamsen

Vote Count4

Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced

Norwegian mockumentary following the trials and tribulations of boyband Boyzvoice, their fans and management.

Release Date2000-01-12

Charactersd Sverre Bratsberg

Vote Count16

Lords of Chaos

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

Release Date2018-09-20

Charactersd Magne Andreassen

Vote Count528

For Life

A tough police investigator and her team are currently solving murder cases. 15 years later she's at a completely different and more dangerous place.

Release Date2020-09-06

Charactersd BROX

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser

Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.

Release Date1999-02-26

Charactersd Klipperen

Neglect

The story of Ellinor and how she deals with the relationship with her father, as she gets the news of him being severely wounded in a hospital in Paris.

Release Date2010-08-16

Charactersd Nick / Nicolas

Christmas on Blood Mountain

A family gathering doesn't go as planned, as one by one is being killed by a mysterious murderer.

Release Date2017-12-01

Charactersd Cris Soot

Episode Count24

Vote Count7

Nissene i bingen

Norwegian Christmas calendar where 24 santas compete to be the last man standing.

Release Date2021-12-01

Charactersd Sverre

Episode Count24

Vote Count5

Bloody Angels

A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.

Release Date1998-12-26

Charactersd Baste Hartmann

Vote Count11

A Mystery on the Cattle Hill Express

Cattle Hill farm, in crisis, relies on Albert the Pig's revolutionary Nano-seed to help the crops grow again. During a high-tech train journey, the seed is stolen. Detective Agatha Christensen, Klara and Gaute race to unmask the thief and save Cattle Hills' future.

Release Date2023-03-03

Charactersd Albert (voice)

Vote Count6

Guggen: The Big Cheese

Guggen is not like the other rat-children. He hates the sewers and loves the fresh air on the roof, where he has emigrated. His mom is worried. What will become of this fresh-air-loving, guitar playing son of hers? She forces her husband, Roger Rotten to take Guggen on a father-and-son trip down the sewers to hunt for cheese. On their adventure they must conquer sewercats, gigantic spiders and alligators. At the end of the day, Roger must admit that he has learned as much of his son as Guggen of him.

Release Date2002-10-22

Charactersd (voice)

Vote Count1

A Somewhat Gentle Man

After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.

Release Date2010-03-19

Charactersd Kristian

Vote Count119

Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond

Captain Sabertooth and his crew are up against a sunburnt vampire, a manipulating queen, a violent monkey army and two young pirates while on the hunt for the magical diamond.

Release Date2020-02-13

Charactersd Baltazar (voice)

Vote Count47

Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama

The orphan boy Pinky follows the Captain on an exciting and dangerous journey across the big oceans to the kingdom of Lama Rama, hunting for a treasure and the answer to who is Pinky's father.

Release Date2014-09-26

Charactersd Prins Badal

Vote Count39

Berlinerpoplene

When Anna Neshov suffers a stroke a week before Christmas Eve and is left dying, her three sons must take stock of their own lives and each other's. For various reasons, they have not been in contact for many years. The youngest brother, Erlend, works as a window dresser in Copenhagen. Margido owns a small funeral home in Trondheim, and the eldest brother, Tor, runs the family farm on the Byneset peninsula outside Trondheim. Now they meet at their mother's sickbed.

Release Date2007-10-08

Charactersd Erlend Neshov

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

Fuck Up

Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.

Release Date2012-03-16

Charactersd Jack

Vote Count24

Sophie's World

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?

Release Date1999-08-06

Charactersd Harry (uncredited)

Vote Count46

Den unge Fleksnes

Day’O! Marve Fleksnes is back. A bit clumsy and just as charming - but this time in a younger version. The young Fleksnes is the only new, Norwegian-produced Christmas calendar on television in years.

Release Date2010-12-01

Charactersd Dr. Hansteen

Episode Count24

Vote Count3

Requiem for Selina

In the early 2000s, 17-year-old Selina, a controversial beauty blogger, gained popularity and influence, becoming Norway's top blogger and top icon.

Release Date2025-03-16

Charactersd Vidar Svenske

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

An Enemy of the People

In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs.

Release Date2005-01-21

Charactersd Programleder

Vote Count8

Kurt Turns Evil

One day Kurt discovers that society does not respect forklift operators very much. He quits his job, and starts climbing the social ladder. He wants to be somebody, but when he doesn't have success in any of his projects, Kurt turns – evil.

Release Date2009-03-25

Charactersd Dr. Petter / Kelner / Pasient med utslett / MF Gaffeltrøkkfører (voice)

Vote Count20

Dirty Money, White Lies

Dirty Money, White Lies

Sverre Fjeld is a young police officer caught between the law and his own conscience. Sverre is fresh out of the police academy and about to get married to his longtime girlfriend. As he takes his first job in Olso, a chance meeting with a young single mother leads to a larger web of dirty money, white lies, drugs, corruption and clandestine liaisons.

Release Date2004-01-08

Charactersd Per Erik Rønning

Episode Count8

Lyckliga gatan

Release Date1999-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Sersjant Wiseth, Den lille piken, Punker Tormod, pluss flere

Episode Count4

Vote Count4

En helt vanlig dag på jobben

A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine Se og Hør. We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the country's largest weekly magazine.

Release Date2010-03-12

Charactersd Asvik

Vote Count7

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey

Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility.

Release Date2011-11-04

Charactersd Even Nymark

Vote Count31

Top Gear Norge

TV veteran Petter Schjerven, musician and host Esben "Dansken" Selvig and super driver and drifting-star Fredric Aasbø will travel around the Nordics to test and compete with new and old vehicles, slow and fast, ugly and beautiful - in short, everything that can roll and crash.

Release Date2020-08-13

Charactersd Guest star

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Det var en gang en Cherrox

The film is based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Here there is great love, pretty angry dads and - yes, Cherroxboots.

Release Date2006-10-19

Charactersd Far

LOL: Last One Laughing Norway

Sigrid Bonde Tusvik gathers ten of Norway's funniest people in the same room, with the following challenge: Don't laugh for six hours, while you do whatever it takes to make the others laugh. The winner of LOL: Den som ler sist leaves the house with NOK 100,000 for their chosen charity.

Release Date2023-12-29

Charactersd Self

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Mars & Venus

Ida and Mathias is a very "normal" couple. Her architect, he was a kind of production manager. They have two children, is still horny on each other. But life has set in: The kids interrupt the sex, she earns more than him, and the apartment is just too narrow and too unopposed. In short: It's time to dream. She wants to finish his life's prestige project. He would like to have a boat. Old sailboat even made of wood. One day, Mathias makes the fatal (or maybe the right thing :) He just buys the boat...

Release Date2007-02-14

Vote Count4

Weekend

Therese has lost her father's love after her twin sister died in a drowning accident. She and her friend Allan kidnaps the daughter of her father's new wife.

Release Date1998-01-23

Vote Count2

I kveld med Ylvis

Release Date2011-09-19

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Dette er humor

Release Date2024-06-14

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Over Atlanteren

Over Atlanteren

Release Date2021-08-31

Episode Count10

I kveld med Thomas Giertsen

I kveld med Thomas Giertsen

I kveld med Thomas Giertsen was a Norwegian talkshow hosted by Thomas Giertsen, that aired on TVNorge. The show premiered on 13 September 1999 and aired every Monday and Thursday.

Release Date1999-09-13

Episode Count24

The Nation's Gambit

Norway's Prime Minister is kidnapped by a terrorist who makes only one demand. That the politicians in power are playing a game of chess over the Prime Minister's life. Each chess piece represents people who work for the state or leaders in society. If the politicians win the game, the prime minister will live, but every piece lost on the chess boards means the loss of a human life. The politicians and their appointed rescue team, the Delta Squad, are faced with an impossible dilemma: Can they afford to sacrifice human lives in an attempt to save the Prime Minister? With only 24 hours to win the game and save the prime minister, they have no choice but to play the deadly game.