Personal Info
Birth date
1979-12-06 (45 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Alta, Norway
Also known as
-Tommy Wirkola
Biography
Tommy Wirkola (born 6 December 1979) is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He is known for his film work in hybrid thrillers that combine horror, action and satire. For his hybrid genre-focused work, he has won numerous awards and nominations. Dead Snow (2009) and Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) were selected by the Sundance Film Festival. Dead Snow won the Toronto Dark Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for four Scream Awards including Best Horror Film. Dead Snow 2 won him Best Film at the Horror Film Festival, Best Director at the International Fantastic Film Festival and Best Screenplay, and Best Film at Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Festival in 2014. What Happened to Monday was nominated for Variety's Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2017. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) was nominated for the People's Choice Award for Best Horror Film. Violent Night (2022) was nominated for Most Outstanding Stunt Performance at the ACTRA Awards, as well as for Best Original Score at the International Film Music Critics Awards and at the Reel Music Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tommy Wirkola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Nytt på nytt
6.5
Overview:
Nytt på nytt is a Norwegian version of the British comedy programme Have I Got News for You, by the production company Hat Trick Productions. The programme is aired weekly on Friday nights. The show is a competition between two panels, where one panelist is permanent, and the other is a guest. The goal is to solve several tasks. The element of competition is largely ignored in favour of the witty remarks and the banter between panelists. The scores are generally overlooked, and have only a brief mention at the end of the show. The host is Jon Almaas, with permanent panelists Knut Nærum and Ingrid Gjessing Linhave. Linhave replaced Linn Skåber from the autumn of 2013. Since the start in the spring of 1999, it has grown to become the most popular weekly show on Norwegian television, with more than a million viewers every week.Spermageddon
6.6
Overview:
Two narrative threads - one is an emerging love story between two awkward teens, Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time and the other is an eventful quest of Simon the Semen and his friends to reach the golden goal, the Egg.What Happened to Monday
7.159
Overview:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
6.089
Overview:
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.Violent Night
7.26
Overview:
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.The Trip
6.678
Overview:
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
6.5
Overview:
The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish their mission, but our hero is not willing to die. He is gathering his own army to give them a final fight.Dead Snow
5.979
Overview:
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.Leave
5.7
Overview:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.Hellfjord
6.3
Overview:
"Hellfjord" is the story of the urban police officer Salmander - second generation Pakistani immigrant - who, after somewhat accidentally killing his police horse in front of thousands of children, gets relocated to the location farthest north in Norway: Hellfjord. Hellfjord is archetypical small Norwegian hick village, populated by simple-minded people keenly interested in keeping to themselves. But when Salmander scratches the surface, he discovers a secret that will turn Hellfjord upside down. Maybe even inside out.Afterburn
NYR
Overview:
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.Over Your Dead Body
NYR
Overview:
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to “reconnect”, but each has secret intentions to kill the other.Empty Barrels
5.2
Overview:
Three small-time criminals finally get the chance to climb the ladder - but manages to mess it all up in royal manners....Kill Buljo
5.929
Overview:
Jompa Tormann and his guests and family are brutally gunned down during an engagement party. Sami- and women-hating police officer Sid Wisløff is put on the case. Together with his colleague and a Sami guide, Wisløff tries to find the guilty party, but Tormann survived and he wants revenge!Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch
4.654
Overview:
Is The Fjord Witch superstition, or is it true that Satan's bride lives across Melkelva in the forest by Grytefjord? Does Tordenskjold find himself or someone else entirely? Who would win in a magic battle between Jesus and Harry Potter? These and other questions are answered in Kurt Josef Wagle's lost video footage.Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta
4.2
Overview:
The crazy fisher man Kurt Josef, an early pensioner, and his odd musical friend Rock Fjellstad has landed a job at Hurtigruta, only to discover that someone has killed off a famous artist, the former M2M-member Marion Ravn.Help, We Are Graduating!
3.6
Overview:
Markus and Robert is finally at ways end. 13 years of school is almost over and all they have learned is soon to be rinsed away with a graduation party like no other. The only problem is that they are in Ødvåg, a small town in the middle of nowhere, and someone has stolen all their traveling money. A group of nerds and misfits decides that nothing is going to stop them from partying, drinking and getting laid, so they go on a road trip. Will these nerds succeed in graduating with a bang?Kill Buljo 2
5.219
Overview:
Jompa Tormann is back, and everything is better, except the humor, which is even worse than in the first movie of vengeance.Kill Buljo: The Beginning
6
Overview:
In the spring of 2007, "Kill Buljo The Movie" took Norwegian cinema by storm. 90,000 experienced the madness at the cinema. But long before the feature film was a fact, the sick gang recorded the trailers for the film which took the Internet by storm. They actually recorded several trailers; classics such as "Anne Frank's diary" and "Romeo and Julius" they also want us to look forward to. In addition to this, of course we meet the Sami boy Jompa, Karius and Baktus who have something quite different to contend with than the toothbrush, Puppi Longstocking who has contracted a bleeding disease and Bjelling who... well, you almost have to find out for yourself.Prosjekt Adonis
NYR
Overview:
A comedy stage show intersped with short film clips. By Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen.Acting
2013Kill Buljo 2 as Sid Wisløff
2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters as Deputy #4 (uncredited)
2010Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch as Pablo (voice)
2010Empty Barrels as Gjørme-Knut
2009Dead Snow as Dying Zombie (uncredited)
2007Kill Buljo as Sid Wisløff
2007Kill Buljo: The Beginning as Various Characters
2006Remake as Attendant #2
2005Prosjekt Adonis as Unknown
2005Rikets Røst (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Nytt på nytt (1 Episode) as Unknown
Production
TBAOver Your Dead Body ... Executive Producer
2026Shiver ... Producer
2022Leave ... Producer
2013Kill Buljo 2 ... Executive Producer
2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ... Producer
2011Help, We Are Graduating! ... Executive Producer
Directing
TBADeathrow-mance ... Director
2026Violent Night 2 ... Director
2026Shiver ... Director
2025Spermageddon ... Director
2022Violent Night ... Director
2021The Trip ... Director
2017What Happened to Monday ... Director
2014Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead ... Director
2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ... Director
2010Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch ... Director
2009Dead Snow ... Director
2007Kill Buljo ... Director
2007Kill Buljo: The Beginning ... Director
2006Remake ... Director
2005Prosjekt Adonis ... Director
Writing
TBAHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 ... Screenplay
TBADeathrow-mance ... Writer
2026Shiver ... Screenplay
2025Afterburn ... Writer
2025Spermageddon ... Writer
2021The Trip ... Writer
2017Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta ... Writer
2014Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead ... Writer
2013Kill Buljo 2 ... Writer
2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ... Writer
2012Hellfjord (7 Episodes) ... Writer
2010Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch ... Writer
2009Dead Snow ... Writer
2007Kill Buljo ... Writer
2007Kill Buljo: The Beginning ... Writer
Creator
2012Hellfjord ... Creator