Peter Hesse Overgaard

Peter Hesse Overgaard (born May 19, 1954, in Copenhagen) is a Danish actor. Already in 1971, he traveled to the USA to try his luck as a teenage actor on the boards, returning a couple of years later and completing his acting education at Team Teatret in Herning. He has worked for many years as a freelancer, which has given him theater roles at Fiolteatret, Husets Teater, Bådteatret, Det Danske Teater, Det ny Teater, and Café Teatret. However, he stopped as a theater actor in 1990. He found the theater a tough discipline and "couldn't bear to perform the same thing every night for many weeks in a row." He has appeared in a number of TV series, including "Bryggeren," "Strisser på Samsø," "Rejseholdet," "Nikolaj og Julie," "Krøniken," "Forsvar," "Anna Pihl," and "Badehotellet." He has also participated in radio drama and played Niels Bohr in 2012.

(From the Danish Wikipedia, translated. Text under CC BY-SA license.)