Kristofer belongs to a Norwegian actor Erik Hivju family and the cousin of French actress Isabelle Nanty. He was born on 7th December, 1978 in Oslo, Norway. Apart from his various role plays in movies, he is very well known for the role of Tormund Giantsbane in HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. He is not only an actor but also a producer and writer.
He is also supposed to have amazing beard by his fans. This versatile actor and producer went to GITIS in Denmark and graduated on Theater Arts from Russian Academy of Theater Arts. He is a very diversified actor who has so far acted in various roles in movies and TV shows. He started acting from his early age of 16 and performed in some theater acts and drama. However Kristofer always wondered to b a rock star. He seems to be very happy coming out from small audience acts to a world wide audiences acts.
He plays a main role in Exodus and his interviews in various channels can be found in youtube.
a main role in Exodus and his interviews in various channels can be found in youtube. He has played in wide varieties of movies, some of them are After Earth, Olav, Manhunt, The Thing, In Order of Disappearance and Lily hammer. He appeared as a guest in third season of game of thrones and was given a role in fourth and fifth season. His fixed full time role was on Game of Thrones was declared in May 2012.
He had a girlfriend while he was called for an audition of True Blood but no facts about his present girlfriend or married has been found. He is thought to be bachelor still engaged in romantic relationship and never had children or wife. He is a dashing actor with a height of 1.83 m and spectacular way of acting. He holds an estimated net worth of more than $2 million. His detailed wiki can be found in IMDB whereas for his complete biography fan can always refer Wikipedia.