Asta Kamma August ❋1991

Asta Kamma August is a Swedish-Danish actor working across film, television and theatre. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2017 and was selected as a European Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2023.

Her recent screen credits include the SVT series Blackwater, Isabella Eklöf’s Kalak, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours and the Karlovy Vary FIPRESCI winning feature The Hypnosis opposite Herbert Nordrum.

On stage, she has performed at the Royal Danish Theatre and Dramaten and is a core member of the Swedish theatre collective KonstAB.

Asta had two films premiering at this year's Toronto International Film Festival: Hans Petter Moland's Growth of the Soil and Amalie Næsby Fick's What Lies Between Us.

Growth of the Soil participated in the Main Competition at San Sebastián, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography and Asta won the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance.