Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas


Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas is a Norwegian actress. She gained widespread critical acclaim in 2025 for her role as Agnes Borg in Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value. Her performance earned her the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress in addition to nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Early life

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas was raised in Gol, Norway. Her parents are theatre performers that ran a theatre production company. As a high school student, she lived as a foreign exchange student in Brazil, where she learned to speak Portuguese. She studied theatre at Nord University and spent a semester studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

Career

Lilleaas was nominated for the Amanda Award for Best Actress in 2015 for her film debut in Women in Oversized Men's Shirts. In 2023, she starred in the Netflix musical film A Beautiful Life. In 2025, she starred as Agnes Borg in Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, for which she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Personal life

She is married to actor Gunnar Eiriksson, with whom she has one son.

Feature Films

Accolades