Biography
Vidar Sandem is a Norwegian actor, playwright and theatre director. He was born on 19 February 1947 in Trøgstad, Norway.
Sandem made his stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1970. He joined Det Norske Teatret in 1977 and served as its theatre director from 1997 to 2010. His film roles include the father in The Ice Palace (1987) and Per Harald in The Worst Person in the World (2021). He also appeared as Chief Geologist in The Burning Sea (2021).
His debut as a playwright was the one-act play Straffe-, broadcast by Fjernsynsteatret in 1988.
