Jonas Olsen was born in Oslo, Norway, and had his breakthrough performance in 2006 when he was cast as the lead in the TV-show "Boys will be Boys". He is the youngest Norwegian actor to have starred in a Emmy-nominated TV-show and have since been working on plays and movies in Oslo, London, Mexico City and Los Angeles, where he currently resides. He was recently awarded the annual "Jean-Luc Godard" award at the Cult Critic Movie Awards, for his performance in the film "Face It".