Petter Næss

Petter Næss (born 14 March 1960 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian actor and film director. His first film as a director was the comedy ''Absolutt blåmandag'' in 1999. Næss is known for his work directing two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's character, ''Elling'' (2000), which was nominated for the foreign language film Oscar and ''Elsk meg i morgen'' (Love Me Tomorrow), (2005), in addition to ''Bare Bea'' (2003), ''Mozart and the Whale'' (2005) and ''Hoppet'' (''The Jump'', 2007) in Sweden. In 2008, Næss portrayed the war hero Martin Linge in the movie ''Max Manus''.

He has primarily occupied himself as a scriptwriter, director, and actor. Since 1997, he has been employed as a director at Oslo Nye Teater, and was, among other plays, responsible for the stage version of ''Elling and Kjell Bjarne''. Provided by Wikipedia