Peter Førde

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Peter Førde (born 16 June 1988) is a Norwegian actor. He began acting as a teenager on stage with Teater Vestland and studied at Romerike Folk High School before moving to New York in 2010 to train at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, graduating in 2013. He later studied the Meisner technique at the Maggie Flanigan Studio and has split his time between Oslo and New York since 2023.

Førde’s early work included short films and indie features, and his feature debut was The Tunnel (2019), in which he played Kurt. The film premiered in December 2019 and earned several awards. In 2021–22 he appeared in Nightmare and Leave, and in the Discovery+ series Everything you love. In 2023 he joined the comedy series Føkkings Fladseth as Jarlen, a rising stand-up comedian with a drug problem; the show aired on TV2 in 2023 and won Gullruten Best Comedy in 2024. Later that year it was announced he would star in the third season of State of Happiness as Bjørklund, a deep-sea diver; filming took place in Stavanger and Belgium in 2023, with the season set to air on NRK in October 2024.