---
name: "Alex Høgh Andersen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-hgh-andersen"
fi1m_id: "alex-hgh-andersen"
imdb_id: "nm5405979"
tmdb_id: 1609347
wikidata_id: "Q16063207"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 May 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T10:44:59.733388+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alex Høgh Andersen

## Identity

Alex Høgh Andersen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alex-hgh-andersen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alex-hgh-andersen
- **IMDb ID:** nm5405979
- **TMDB ID:** 1609347
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16063207
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_H%C3%B8gh_Andersen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16063207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5405979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1609347

Actor. Born 20 May 1994 in Slagelse, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 May 1994, Slagelse, Danmark
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Alex Høgh, Alex Hoegh Andersen, الکس هوگ اندرسن
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (1), 2020s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_H%C3%B8gh_Andersen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16063207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5405979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1609347

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Vikings*](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md) (74), [*The Room Next Door*](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md) (68)

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## Fi1m on Alex Høgh Andersen

> Alex Høgh Andersen is at his most persuasive when anger and vulnerability are visible together. His Ivar in *Vikings* gives us more to value than the disconnected flashbacks of *The Room Next Door*.

Watch Alex Høgh Andersen's eyes when he plays Ivar the Boneless in *Vikings* (2013). With the character's movement restricted, and crawling central to the performance, anger and calculation have to register in the face and upper body. Andersen makes that restriction dramatically useful: Ivar can seem dangerous without needing to stand over anyone. We found him unsettling because the hurt remains visible even when he is being manipulative. That is where Andersen is strongest: letting us understand an unpleasant character without asking us to forgive him.

An early film role as Anders Holm in *A War* (2015) came before Ivar made him internationally recognisable. The part took him through seasons four to six of Michael Hirst's *Vikings*, with filming from 2016 to 2020. Hirst's dialogue can be painfully blunt, and the series is often more persuasive when it lets its actors work without explaining quite so much. Andersen's reliance on physical detail suits that uneven material, giving us something to watch when the lines offer little to discover.

His subsequent film work includes Frederik in *The Shadow in My Eye* (2021) and Fred in Pedro Almodóvar's *The Room Next Door* (2024). The latter gives us less to be enthusiastic about, without offering much reason to blame him. Alongside Esther-Rose McGregor as the younger Martha, he appears in flashbacks that feel detached from the film around them. Teresa Font's cuts back to the present come as a relief. Those scenes offer little basis for deciding how well his concentrated physical acting travels beyond Ivar, since we are mostly waiting for the principal story to resume.

We would like to see more film work that allows him to develop the contradictions he finds in Ivar. His forcefulness matters because sadness and intelligence are still visible underneath it; simply casting him to look dangerous would miss the point. For now, *Vikings* is the place to start, with patience for the dialogue and an appetite for the battles.

## Biography

Alex Høgh Andersen is a Danish actor. He was born on 20 May 1994 in Slagelse, Denmark.

He is known for portraying Ivar the Boneless in the television series *Vikings* (2016–2020). His other film roles include Anders in *A War* (2015), Frederik in *The Shadow in My Eye* (2021) and Fred in *The Room Next Door* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Room Next Door* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Fred — [page](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md)
- *Vikings* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Ivar Lothbrok / Ivar the Boneless — [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Special Unit - The First Murder* (2025), as Otto Himmelstrup
- *The Room Next Door* (2024), as Fred — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md)
- *One of Us Is Trembling* (2024), as Mikkel
- *Call Me Dad* (2024), series, as Emil · Idea, Creator
- *Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever* (2023), as Frederik
- *Granite Harbour* (2022), series, as Emil Veggem
- *The Viking - Downfall of a Drug Lord* (2022), series, as Claus Malmqvist
- *The Shadow in My Eye* (2021), as Frederik
- *Big Lars* (2020), series, as Alex
- *A Bond Between People* (2019), as Adrian
- *Darkness: Those Who Kill* (2019), series, as Bjørn Jepsen
- *Uro* (2018), as Liam
- *Cold at the Summit* (2017), Writer
- *A War* (2015), as Anders
- *Ødeland* (2015), as Jakup
- *The Kiss* (2015), Actor
- *No Soldier* (2015), as Badass Soldier
- *Burn Burn Burn* (2015), as Hugger
- *Tvillingerne og Julemanden* (2013), series, as William Iversen
- *Vikings* (2013), series, as Ivar Lothbrok / Ivar the Boneless — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)
- *Outsider* (2012), series, as Victor
- *Red, White & Royal Wedding*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Alex Høgh Andersen at the September 2021 German Comic Con Dortmund (Limited Edition)](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-30e787f06d7a.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen at the September 2021 German Comic Con Dortmund (Limited Edition) — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Alex_hogh_andersen_2021_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen at the September 2021 German Comic Con Dortmund (Limited Edition)](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-c61906289568.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen at the September 2021 German Comic Con Dortmund (Limited Edition) — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Alex_hogh_andersen_2021_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-5f60f94b1db7.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Alex_hogh_andersen_2021_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen at German Vikings Con at the Crowne Plaza in Neuss in November 2022](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-e20886dab459.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen at German Vikings Con at the Crowne Plaza in Neuss in November 2022 — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Alex_hogh_andersen_2022_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-dcb2a7206872.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen — Image via TMDB
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-def90af39d25.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen — Image via TMDB
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-7d5ef895cf46.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen — Image via TMDB
- ![Alex Høgh Andersen at German Vikings Con at the Crowne Plaza in Neuss in November 2022](https://film.one/media/person/10698/gallery-b4722a7a0345.jpg) Alex Høgh Andersen at German Vikings Con at the Crowne Plaza in Neuss in November 2022 — German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Alex_hogh_andersen_2022_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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