Paw Henriksen Biography: Age, Height, Ethnicity, Wife, Movies, Age Awards, Children, Instagram

Paw Henriksen is a Danish actor known for a career that moves easily between television drama, feature films, and theatre.

He first broke through with a broad audience in TV 2’s series Hotellet, where he played Nikolaj Faber, and he later became widely known from roles in major Danish films and series, including Susanne Bier’s In a Better World.

Over time, he has built a reputation as a reliable character actor who turns up in everything from crime and social realism to family titles and stage productions.

Profile

• Full name: Paw Henriksen
• Date of birth: 3 April 1975
• Age: 50 years old
• Gender: Male
• Place of birth: Denmark
• Nationality: Danish
• Profession: Actor
• Height: 1.75 m
• Parents: N/A
• Siblings: N/A
• Spouse: N/A
• Children: Arnold Henriksen,Vilje Henriksen, Flora Henriksen
• Relationship status: In a relationship
• Religion: Christian
• Ethnicity: Danish
• Net worth: $5 million

Early Life and Education

Paw Henriksen is now 50 years old. He was born on 3 April 1975 in Denmark, and he has generally kept the details of his childhood, including information about his parents and siblings, out of the spotlight.

He trained as an actor at Statens Teaterskole (the Danish National School of Theatre) and finished in 2000. That graduation year became an immediate turning point, because the same year he had his breakthrough as Nikolaj Faber in the TV series Hotellet.

Personal Life

Paw Henriksen was married to Rikke Toft Pedersen until 2009. He has three children: a son named Arnold and twins named Vilje and Flora. He has also been linked to an earlier relationship with Frederikke Plank Harms, and later to Stine Persson.

Career

Paw Henriksen’s career stretches across Danish film, television, and theatre, with a practical rhythm: steady work, recurring collaborations, and frequent shifts between screen and stage. His breakout came in 2000 when he played Nikolaj Faber in Hotellet, a role that positioned him for a long run of television appearances in popular Danish series.

He later appeared in well-known titles such as Anna Pihl and Herrens veje, while also taking roles in seasonal family programming, including the Tinka Christmas universe.

On film, his credits include a range of Danish features from the mid-2000s onward, such as Brothers, Ambulance, Accused, Chinaman, and Nordkraft. He also appeared in In a Better World, which further raised his international visibility because of the film’s global attention.

In the 2010s and 2020s, he continued adding both mainstream and more specialized projects, including The Day Will Come, The Way to Mandalay, A Beautiful Life, and B.O.Y. – Bruises of Yesterday.

Theatre has remained a parallel track rather than an occasional detour. His stage work has included productions at venues such as Teater GROB and Det Kongelige Teater, and he has been associated with Teatret ved Sorte Hest through credited productions and CV listings. That ongoing stage output also fed into his one-man performance Mig og Tyson at Teater GROB, which later became a major awards-season reference point for him.

Awards and Nominations

• Årets Talentpris, Revyernes Revy (2015)
• Årets Reumert nomination, Årets Mandlige Hovedrolle, Mig og Tyson (2018)

Net Worth

Paw Henriksen’s net worth in 2024 is estimated at $5 million. The estimate is tied to long-running earnings from Danish television series, steady feature-film work over multiple decades, and paid theatre engagements.

Social Media

• Instagram: @pawhenriksen

Filmography

• Eva (1994)
• Watch Me Fly (1996)
• Hotellet (2000–2002)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• The Little Rascals (2003)
• Regel nr. 1 (2003)
• Scratch (2003)
• The Fighter (2003)
• Better Times (2004)
• Brothers (2004)
• Jul i Valhal (2005)
• Father of Four (2005)
• Nordkraft (2005)
• Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
• Kinamand (2005)
• Accused (2005)
• Ambulance (2005)
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2006)
• One to One (2006)
• Anna Pihl (2006–2007)
• Frelseren (2006)
• Karlas kabale (2007)
• En mand kommer hjem (2007)
• Gaven (2008)
• Maj & Charlie (2008)
• Monsterjægerne (2009)
• Historietimen (2009)
• In a Better World (2010)
• Jelly T (2012)
• The Spiral (2012)
• The Detectives (2013)
• Tidsrejsen (2014)
• Itsi Bitsi (2014)
• Familien Jul (2014)
• People Get Eaten (2015)
• The Day Will Come (2016)
• The Christmas Family 2 (2016)
• Love and Other Catastrophes (2016)
• Something’s Rockin’ (2017)