---
name: "Renate Reinsve"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/renate-reinsve"
fi1m_id: "renate-reinsve"
imdb_id: "nm4561559"
tmdb_id: 1576786
wikidata_id: "Q28718257"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 November 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-30T20:15:03.295459+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."
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# Renate Reinsve

## Identity

Renate Reinsve

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/renate-reinsve
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** renate-reinsve
- **IMDb ID:** nm4561559
- **TMDB ID:** 1576786
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28718257
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renate_Reinsve, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28718257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4561559/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1576786

Actor. Born 24 November 1987 in Solbergelva, Drammen, Norway.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 November 1987, Solbergelva, Drammen, Norway
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Renate Hansen Reinsve
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrea Berentsen Ottmar](https://film.one/person/andrea-berentsen-ottmar.md), [Anders Danielsen Lie](https://film.one/person/anders-danielsen-lie.md), [Eskil Vogt](https://film.one/person/eskil-vogt.md), [Joachim Trier](https://film.one/person/joachim-trier.md)
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 75 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 4 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $431m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renate_Reinsve, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28718257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4561559/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1576786

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Worst Person in the World*](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md) (84)
- **Disney+:** [*Sentimental Value*](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) (79)

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## Fi1m on Renate Reinsve

> Renate Reinsve acts in the gap between hearing a question and answering it, and she can make that gap hold a whole marriage. Joachim Trier has built two films around it; her English-language work has mostly asked her to hurry.

Two officials sit at a kitchen table with notebooks, and Renate Reinsve's face slowly works out that everything said at that table will be read later by someone who was not there. That is the scene in *Fjord* (2026) we keep coming back to, and nothing happens in it. We were frightened anyway, and the fright was hers: the pause before she answers, and what we could see arriving in it. It is the thing she does that most actors do not. She lets the thought land before the character has decided what to do about it, and she makes us watch.

She trained at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and spent years in Norwegian theatre, with one small screen part for Joachim Trier in 2011. She was close to giving up when Trier wrote Julie in *The Worst Person in the World* (2021) for her. Julie is a searching, undecided young woman, and the film made Reinsve's name abroad. Not everyone was charmed; some critics found Julie a familiar sort of messy young woman seen through a man's eye. Her own line on the part, "I wanted her to be strong in the chaos", is a fair description of most of what she has done since. Then came an English-language stretch in 2024, *A Different Man* opposite Sebastian Stan, *Armand*, and *Presumed Innocent* for television, before she went back to Trier.

*Sentimental Value* (2025), written with Eskil Vogt and shot by Kasper Tuxen, is the best use of her we have reviewed. Nora is a stage actress with a temper she keeps just below the surface, and the strong scenes, a dinner, a phone call, a rehearsal she should not have agreed to, are all about whether it will come up. Trier and Vogt write her the same scene over and over, a room in which she has not yet said the thing, and she does not play it the same way twice. Cristian Mungiu got the same out of her in *Fjord*, in three languages, none of which she seems to be acting. Stan is her husband there, and their scenes are the reason to go.

*Backrooms* (2026) asks for something else. Mary is brittle and quick and cannot stand still, and the film keeps cutting away to her as a child. There is one clever shot in those flashbacks, a room rearranging itself as she tries to remember it, and it is the best thing in the picture, but the part wants speed from an actress whose gift is waiting. Set beside Chiwetel Ejiofor, who does his acting with his shoulders, she looks hurried.

The pause needs a director willing to hold the shot. Trier holds it. Mungiu holds it for 146 minutes, which is a little too long. If the English-language films want the actress they saw in *The Worst Person in the World*, they will have to stop cutting away.

## Biography

Renate Reinsve is a Norwegian actress. She was born on 24 November 1987 in Solbergelva, Drammen. She trained at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and began her career in theatre, appearing at Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim before joining Det Norske Teatret in Oslo in 2016.

Reinsve made her feature film debut in *Oslo, August 31st* (2011). She gained international recognition for her leading role as Julie in Joachim Trier’s *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), for which she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. She reunited with Trier for *Sentimental Value* (2025), playing Nora Borg. Her other film credits include *A Different Man* (2024), *Armand* (2024) and *Backrooms* (2026), in which she plays Mary. She has also appeared in the series *Presumed Innocent* (2024).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Backrooms* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Mary — [page](https://film.one/film/backrooms.md)
- *Fjord* (2026), Fi1m 66, as Lisbet Gheorghiu — [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)
- *Sentimental Value* (2025), Fi1m 79, as Nora Borg — [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md)
- *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Julie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Butterfly* (2026), as Lily
- *Fjord* (2026), as Lisbet Gheorghiu — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)
- *Backrooms* (2026), as Mary — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/backrooms.md)
- *Sentimental Value* (2025), as Nora Borg · Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md)
- *Armand* (2024), as Elizabeth · Executive Producer
- *A Different Man* (2024), as Ingrid
- *Presumed Innocent* (2024), series, as Carolyn Polhemus
- *Another End* (2024), as Zoe-Ava
- *Handling the Undead* (2024), as Anna
- *Cake Bomb* (2023), as March
- *Ida Takes Charge* (2022), series, as Sarah
- *The Worst Person in the World* (2021), as Julie — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-worst-person-in-the-world.md)
- *The Affected* (2021), as Rita
- *Phoenix* (2018), as Kristin
- *Dog Eat Dog* (2018), as Silje
- *Roeng* (2018), series, as Lena
- *White Boys* (2018), series, as Frida
- *Nesten voksen* (2018), series, as Siri
- *Twigson the Explorer* (2017), as Mother
- *Best før* (2017), series, as Anemone
- *Sweet Things* (2017), as Anne
- *Welcome to Norway!* (2016), as Line
- *Dark Woods II* (2015), as Synne
- *Women in Oversized Men's Shirts* (2015), as Ane
- *The Orheim Company* (2012), as Lene
- *Oslo, August 31st* (2011), as Renate
- *Somewhere Out There*, as Ingrid
- *X*, as Ingvild
- *The Governesses*, Actor
- *If Love Should Die*, as Mary Wollstonecraft

## Gallery

- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-ada9750a03c0.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Renate_Reinsve-9937.jpg/1280px-Renate_Reinsve-9937.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renate Reinsve, Cristian Mungiu and Sebastian Stan pose during the "Fjord" photocall at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19,  (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-febcd909a928.jpg) Renate Reinsve, Cristian Mungiu and Sebastian Stan pose during the "Fjord" photocall at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19,  (2026) — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/CannesFF26_GRH_TUESPHOTO0276A.jpg/1280px-CannesFF26_GRH_TUESPHOTO0276A.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renate Reinsve, Cristian Mungiu and Sebastian Stan pose during the "Fjord" photocall at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19,  (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-df9ddcd3d33c.jpg) Renate Reinsve, Cristian Mungiu and Sebastian Stan pose during the "Fjord" photocall at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19,  (2026) — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/CannesFF26_GRH_TUESPHOTO0276A_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-CannesFF26_GRH_TUESPHOTO0276A_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sentimental Value screening, tiff 2025](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-e829029b5163.jpg) Sentimental Value screening, tiff 2025 — Jyo in Toronto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Female_casts_%40_Sentimental_Value_screening%2C_tiff_2025.jpg/1280px-Female_casts_%40_Sentimental_Value_screening%2C_tiff_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-484aa656bcfb.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-dcf2643f8c9c.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-b07a5402cec7.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB
- ![Actress Renate Reinsve at the 74nd Berlin International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-19c895f84d59.jpg) Actress Renate Reinsve at the 74nd Berlin International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Renate_Reinsve-64370.jpg/1280px-Renate_Reinsve-64370.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Renate Reinsve at the 74nd Berlin International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-a59bf0cfb663.jpg) Actress Renate Reinsve at the 74nd Berlin International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Renate_Reinsve-64375.jpg/1280px-Renate_Reinsve-64375.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-8544577f7cc0.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-241e7fa58ab4.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB
- ![Renate Reinsve](https://film.one/media/person/6677/gallery-e54e5fa27349.jpg) Renate Reinsve — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2027: Best Actress (nominated), for *Sentimental Value*
- 2026: Best Actress (nominated), for *Sentimental Value*

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 2021: Best Actress (won)

### Other awards — 3 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Actress 2025: European Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Sentimental Value*
- European Film Award for Best Actress 2024: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Armand*
- Amanda Award for Best Actress 2022: Amanda Award for Best Actress (won), for *The Worst Person in the World*
- European Film Award for Best Actress 2021: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *The Worst Person in the World*
- Hedda Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2014: Hedda Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (won)

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

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