Lisa Loven Kongsli

Biography:

Actress Lisa Loven Kongsli is from Norway. Since her 2008 acting début, she has starred in important roles in Norwegian and other films, such as Fatso (2008), Knerten (2009), and The Orheim Company (2012). She received a nomination in the 50th Guldbagge Awards’ Best Actress category in 2014 for her performance as Ebba in Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure.

In the 2015 television series Occupied, she portrayed the wife of the prime minister. In the 2017 film Wonder Woman, she portrayed Amazon warrior Menalippe. In the same year, she reprised the character in Justice League, which was later recut by Zack Snyder in 2021.

She played the lead in Anna Sofie Hartmann’s 2019 Danish film Giraffe.  She played Edith, a curious journalist who, under false pretences, meets the (usually anonymous) sperm donor who fathered her small son in Janicke Askevold’s Solomamma in 2025. At the 78th Locarno Film Festival, the movie made its international premiere in the main competition.