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name: "Lisa Loven Kongsli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lisa-loven-kongsli"
fi1m_id: "lisa-loven-kongsli"
imdb_id: "nm2966840"
tmdb_id: 1310711
wikidata_id: "Q17100163"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 September 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T14:14:25.638320+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."
---

# Lisa Loven Kongsli

## Identity

Lisa Loven Kongsli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lisa-loven-kongsli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lisa-loven-kongsli
- **IMDb ID:** nm2966840
- **TMDB ID:** 1310711
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17100163
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17100163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2966840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1310711

Actor. Born 23 September 1979 in Oslo, Norge.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 September 1979, Oslo, Norge
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Lisa Loven, Lisa Kongsli Loven
- **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 62 (2), 2020s 66 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 63 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $666m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17100163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2966840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1310711

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Force Majeure*](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md) (84)

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## Fi1m on Lisa Loven Kongsli

> Lisa Loven Kongsli makes being right look painful. Her Ebba in *Force Majeure* keeps a marital argument funny without letting us forget the hurt, and remains our strongest reason to seek her out.

In *Force Majeure* (2014), Lisa Loven Kongsli's Ebba insists on what happened, with enough hurt behind the insistence to make being right seem poor consolation. It is a persuasive performance, and the clearest reason we have to recommend her work. Ruben Östlund's film turns a father's moment of panic into a marital argument, giving her a role that could have become merely corrective. Ebba has the facts; her husband wants his account accepted. Kongsli makes that difference painful without losing the comedy.

Johannes Bah Kuhnke is excellent opposite her as Tomas, making self-defence sound like a reasonable contribution to the conversation. He needs Ebba to accept his version, and Kongsli makes clear how much that acceptance would ask of her. We laughed at their attempts to make this an ordinary disagreement, then felt uncomfortable because Kongsli kept Ebba's hurt present throughout the exchanges. The comedy would be easier, and less interesting, if she simply made Ebba contemptuous of him.

That leading role brought wider attention, followed by Menalippe in *Wonder Woman* (2017) and *Justice League* (2017). The move into larger productions did not mean leaving Scandinavian features behind. She plays Dara in *Giraffe* (2019), while Edith in *Solomamma* (2025) was her first leading role in a Norwegian feature. Cristian Mungiu's *Fjord* (2026) gives her another central part, as Frida. Those credits suggest why it would be a mistake to treat the studio work as the destination and the family dramas as the preparation.

Östlund does not get everything right around her: the marital arguments in *Force Majeure* go on longer than they need to. Kongsli can sustain Ebba's hurt, but she cannot make every return to the dispute necessary. That matters when judging her work, because the patience the film demands is not evidence of anything lacking in her performance. We would like more leading parts that leave her this much room to be difficult without making her unsympathetic. Choose *Force Majeure* when there is no pressing need for a peaceful evening.

## Biography

Lisa Loven Kongsli is a Norwegian actress. She made her screen debut in 2008 and has appeared in Norwegian films including *Fatso* (2008), *Twigson* (2009) and *The Orheim Company* (2012).

She received a Guldbagge Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance as Ebba in Ruben Östlund’s *Force Majeure* (2014). She played the prime minister’s wife in the series *Occupied* (2015) and portrayed the Amazon warrior Menalippe in *Wonder Woman* (2017), *Justice League* (2017) and *Zack Snyder’s Justice League* (2021).

Kongsli trained at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York. In 2026 she appeared as Frida in Cristian Mungiu’s *Fjord*, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and had earlier starred as Edith in *Solomamma* (2025), for which she received the Best Actress award at the Barcelona Film Festival.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fjord* (2026), Fi1m 66, as Frida — [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)
- *Justice League* (2017), Fi1m 40, as Menalippe — [page](https://film.one/film/justice-league.md)
- *Force Majeure* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Ebba — [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Fjord* (2026), as Frida — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)
- *Solomamma* (2025), as Edith
- *The Woman in Cabin 10* (2025), as Anne Bullmer
- *Quiet Life* (2025), as Dr. Olsson
- *Quisling* (2024), series, as Heidi Olsen
- *Number 24* (2024), as Gudrun Collett
- *Quisling: The Final Days* (2024), as Heidi Olsen
- *Invitation to Self-Examination* (2024), Actor
- *Paradise* (2023), as Lilith
- *Fathers and Mothers* (2022), as Moa-Britt
- *October Passed Me By* (2022), Actor
- *The Shift* (2022), series, as Ingrid
- *Clue: The Maltese Mystery* (2021), as Anna Levin
- *Zack Snyder's Justice League* (2021), as Menalippe
- *Professionals* (2020), series, as Zora Swann
- *Giraffe* (2020), as Dara
- *Big Mood* (2020), as Britt
- *Ashes in the Snow* (2018), as Elena Vilkas
- *Justice League* (2017), as Menalippe — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/justice-league.md)
- *Wonder Woman* (2017), as Menalippe
- *The Lion Woman* (2016), as Ruth
- *Occupied* (2015), series, as Astrid Berg
- *Force Majeure* (2014), as Ebba — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)
- *The Orheim Company* (2012), as Irene voksen, Irene Voksen
- *Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?* (2011), series, as Mia
- *Gresshoppen* (2011), as Younger sister
- *The Sky Behind the House* (2011), as Mom
- *Twigson* (2009), as Filmstjernen Vivian Løkkeborg
- *The Angel* (2009), as Jente på behandlingshjem
- *Fatso* (2008), as Martine
- *305* (2008), as Claudius' Ex-Wife
- *Yeti*, Actor
- *Let It Come Down*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-b9046136e28a.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025 — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_01.jpg/1280px-Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-e088bf417709.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025 — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_02.jpg/1280px-Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-71e2721c41a7.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli, actor, at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025 — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_03.jpg/1280px-Lisa_Loven_Kongsli%2C_actor%2C_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-6528736063dc.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli — Gus Kaage/Film i Väst., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli.jpg/1280px-Lisa_Loven_Kongsli.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-288ad6cf9ca4.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli — Image via TMDB
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-f5b9d872e9bc.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli — Image via TMDB
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-e2679f590129.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli — Image via TMDB
- ![Lisa Loven Kongsli and Janicke Askevold at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025](https://film.one/media/person/95697/gallery-9be339bce321.jpg) Lisa Loven Kongsli and Janicke Askevold at the photocall for Solomamma, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 11 August 2025 — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Lisa_Loven_Kongsli_and_Janicke_Askevold_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_01.jpg/1280px-Lisa_Loven_Kongsli_and_Janicke_Askevold_at_the_photocall_for_Solomamma%2C_Locarno_Film_Festival%2C_Switzerland%2C_11_August_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2015: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Force Majeure*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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