When he’s done with the red carpet at film festivals and premieres, Dr Anders Danielsen Lie returns home to Norway, back to his patients, COVID-19 and general practice. 

Oslo-based Dr Danielsen Lie is not only a GP, but also an actor who has starred in two critically acclaimed romantic dramas which were released at the Cannes film festival in July this year. 

Both big screen performances, The Worst Person in the World, chronicling four years in the life of a young woman, which opened the WA film festival last week, and Bergman Island, about two filmmakers, are due for Australian release on 26 December.

Described by lifestyle website The Cut as “2021’s primo European heartthrob”, the 42-year-old has made a string of films and miniseries over the past 15 years, in between finishing medical studies and setting up a GP practice in Oslo.