Lisa Loven Kongsli

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Lisa Loven Kongsli
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Kongsli in 2013
Born
Oslo, Norway
OccupationActress
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in) [1]

Lisa Loven Kongsli is a Norwegian actress.

Kongsli debuted as an actress in 2008, and has since had key parts in Norwegian [2] and other films, including Fatso (2008), Knerten (2009), and The Orheim Company (2012).

In 2014, she was nominated in the Best Actress category at the 50th Guldbagge Awards, for her role as Ebba in Ruben Östlund's film Force Majeure . [3]

She played the role of the prime minister's wife in the TV series Occupied (2015).

She played Amazon warrior Menalippe in the 2017 film Wonder Woman , [4] reprising the role the same year in the film Justice League , as well as the subsequent 2021 director's cut Zack Snyder's Justice League .

In 2019, she starred in the Danish film Giraffe, directed by Anna Sofie Hartmann. [5]

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References

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