Erik Aleksander Schjerven (born October 16, 1980) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

.

Education

He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...

 in London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, in 2009.

Career

Schjerven is notable for playing Albert Lunde on the Norwegian soap-opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 television series

Television program

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 Hotel Cæsar

Hotel Cæsar

Hotel Cæsar is a Norwegian soap opera that has been broadcast Monday to Friday on TV 2 since 1998 . It was created by Swedish duo Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander...

from 1998 throughout 2000.

He has also appeared in Fox Grønland, a crime series on TV 2

TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

, a Norwegian television channel.

Schjerven played Jon Hatland in Max Manus

Max Manus

Maximo Guillermo "Max" Manus DSO, MC & Bar was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.Manus was born in Bergen to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother...

(2008), a Norwegian biographical

Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...

 war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 based on the real events of the life of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 resistance fighter

Resistance during World War II

Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns...

 Max Manus

Max Manus

Maximo Guillermo "Max" Manus DSO, MC & Bar was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.Manus was born in Bergen to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother...

 (1914–1996).

He will be seen in the upcoming film Robin Hood

Robin Hood (2010 film)

Robin Hood is a 2010 British/American adventure film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett...

(2010), scheduled to be released on May 14, 2010.

Personal life

His brother, Petter Schjerven

Petter Schjerven

Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven is a Norwegian television host, known from Typisk norsk which airs on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for "Midt i smørøyet" and as the producer of the radio program "Holger Nielsens metode" on...

, is a television host

Presenter

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 on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) television channel.

External links

• Erik Aleksander Schjerven on Filmfront
  Filmfront
  Filmfront is a Norwegian website for films and television series similar to Internet Movie Database. Filmfront also covers various news on movie and celebrity material from both within and outside Norway. It has information on over 8,000 films, 2,000 short films, 115,000 actors and 1,400 TV shows...
  
  
• http://www.dfi.dk/FaktaOmFilm/Nationalfilmografien/nfperson.aspx?id=183836 on Det Danske Filminstitut