Fridtjov Såheim

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Summary

Fridtjov Såheim is a Norwegian actor and stage director known for The Art of Negative Thinking, Lilyhammer, Norsemen, and a long run of theatre and screen roles. He has described his acting focus as portraying flawed, socially awkward men in ways that can still earn sympathy, and has also directed plays by Anton Chekhov and Jon Fosse. In an interview, he criticized consumer debt and called modern society a “slave society.” No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.