Petronella Barker

Petronella Barker

Petronella Barker (born 29 October 1965) is a British-born Norwegian actress. She was born in Colchester, England, but grew up in Fredrikstad, Norway. While still studying at the Theatre Academy in Oslo (1985–1988), she had her debut in the Russian-Norwegian co-production Dragens fange (Trees Grow on the Stones Too, 1985). Her breakthrough as a movie actress came with the dystopic Sweetwater (1988), followed by Havet stiger (The Ocean Rises, 1990). In 1990 she made her stage debut as Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Centralteatret. Since then she has acted in several plays, also for Oslo Nye Teater and The National Theatre. Meanwhile she has continued doing roles both for TV and film, most prominently the movie Thranes metode (Thrane's Method, 1998), and the TV police series Fox Grønland (2001). Description above from the Wikipedia article Petronella Barker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Petronella Barker
  • Popularity: 8.246
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-10-29
  • Place of Birth: Colchester, Essex, England, UK
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Petronella Barker Movies

  • 2006
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    The Bothersome Man

    The Bothersome Man

    7 2006 HD

    Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But...

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  • 1975
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    In Sickness and in Health

    In Sickness and in Health

    1 1975 HD

    A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's...

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  • 1985
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    Knockback: 2

    Knockback: 2

    1 1985 HD

    Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and...

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  • 2010
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    Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

    Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

    6.232 2010 HD

    Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic...

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  • 1990
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    Havet stiger

    Havet stiger

    6 1990 HD

    Set in the future when much of Central Europe has suffered ecological destruction and only small groups of survivors remain, a lost Norwegian...

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  • 1985
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    Trees Grow on the Stones Too

    Trees Grow on the Stones Too

    4.6 1985 HD

    Vikings attack Kuksja's village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle...

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  • 2002
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    Music for Weddings and Funerals

    Music for Weddings and Funerals

    4 2002 HD

    Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As...

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  • 2013
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    Victoria

    Victoria

    4.9 2013 HD

    A tragic love affair between Victoria and Johannes. She's the daughter of a rich estate owner and he's the son of a poor miller. Despite the deep...

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  • 2021
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    Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

    Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

    4.261 2021 HD

    Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put...

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  • 2000
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    The 7 Deadly Sins

    The 7 Deadly Sins

    6 2000 HD

    Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

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  • 1998
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    Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom

    Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom

    6.5 1998 HD

    Ole Aleksander leker i gangen, og forstyrrer mor som vasker ved å ringe på døren. Han får sin egen nøkkel, men det...

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  • 2014
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    Haram

    Haram

    3.5 2014 HD

    Omar is a mid-level gangster in Oslo. A family secret is revealed when his "dead" sister isn't dead at all. Omar is ordered to find her. Joining him...

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  • 2015
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    Underdog

    Underdog

    6.5 2015 HD

    Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo...

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  • 1988
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    Sweetwater

    Sweetwater

    4.6 1988 HD

    Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join...

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  • 2016
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    A Serious Game

    A Serious Game

    5.8 2016 HD

    In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

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  • 1995
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    Dangerous Waters

    Dangerous Waters

    4.3 1995 HD

    A dangerous criminal, named Falken, robs a bank together with a redneck small-criminal. They have to take a hostage and escape in a racing boat. When...

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  • 2017
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    Fountain of Youth

    Fountain of Youth

    1 2017 HD

    Olav Astrup is a failed entrepreneur in his mid-twenties who has recently been refused contact with his newborn child. Without family or any form of...

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  • 2004
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    Hawaii, Oslo

    Hawaii, Oslo

    6.772 2004 HD

    Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the...

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  • 1996
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    Gåten Knut Hamsun

    Gåten Knut Hamsun

    1 1996 HD

    What is the answer to the riddle. What made the famous author, nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun to support Hitler? 1945. The famous writer Knut Hamsun...

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  • 1993
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    The Blue Wolves

    The Blue Wolves

    6 1993 HD

    Pelle's father joins an activist group and Pelle has to face up to his father.

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  • 2014
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    Stress

    Stress

    1 2014 HD

    A workaholic father is encouraged to spend more time with his daughter. It turns out to be harder than he would think.

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  • 1965
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    Othello

    Othello

    6.4 1965 HD

    General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

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  • 1998
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    Thranes metode

    Thranes metode

    2 1998 HD

    Thrane has always had his own method of dealing with life. He tends to slip away. But when he sees beautiful Mol the same day he moves to a new...

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  • 2021
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    Gritt

    Gritt

    6.9 2021 HD

    The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the...

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  • 2019
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    The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

    The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

    6.5 2019 HD

    When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and...

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  • 1978
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    Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

    Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

    10 1978 HD

    Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the...

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  • 2007
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    Varg Veum

    Varg Veum

    7.7 2007 HD

    Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

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  • 2018
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    Recoil

    Recoil

    7.3 2018 HD

    A criminal group starts to investigate the police man Tom Karlsen after a drug deal goes wrong.

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  • 2003
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    Uti vår hage

    Uti vår hage

    8.714 2003 HD

    Uti vår hage was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state...

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  • 2022
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    Gutta på skauen

    Gutta på skauen

    8 2022 HD

    During the war, resistance work took place all over Norway. Some groups sacrificed everything for the country and were later praised and honored....

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  • 1990
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    Aksjemordet

    Aksjemordet

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2023
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    The Architect

    The Architect

    7.6 2023 HD

    When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into...

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