Lisa Loven Kongsli

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Lisa Loven Kongsli
Lisa Loven Kongsli attends the red carpet for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 12 August 2025 03.jpg
At the Locarno Film Festival, 12 August 2025
Born
Oslo, Norway
OccupationActress
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in) [1]

Lisa Loven Kongsli is a Norwegian actress. She 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] In 2025, she appeared in Solomamma , by Janicke Askevold as Edith, a curiosity-driven journalist who, under false pretences, gets to know the (normally) anonymous sperm donor who fathered her young son. The film had its world premiere in main competition at the 78th Locarno Film Festival. [6]

References

  1. "Lisa Loven Kongsli". Lindberg Management. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. Andersson, Jan-Olov (23 August 2014). "– Jag tog ut all fanskap i filmen". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  3. "Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll NOMINERAD". guldbaggen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  4. Sperling, Nicole (24 March 2016). "Wonder Woman exclusive: Meet the warrior women training Diana Prince". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  5. Bradshaw, Peter (7 August 2020). "Giraffe review – an erotic tale of love, location and loyalty". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  6. "Solomamma". Locarno Film Festival . 8 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.