Tor Einar Gudmestad
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Tor Einar Gudmestad was born August 13th 1996, in the city of Stavanger
in Norway. He grew up in the nearby smaller city Jørpeland, just a
ferry-trip away from Stavanger, with his ultimate idol being the
fictional character MacGyver (1985)
played by Richard Dean Anderson in
the mid 80's, which he later ended up parodying in his own small
web-series, called "MacGudmi".
He is the son of Borgny and Tor Bjørn Gudmestad, and he has five older siblings. Tor developed early on a passion for acting and making jokes in front of a crowd, and he ended up attending the local sketch-comedy group at young age. Studying drama in high school seemed as the perfect way to go, and so he did, at Stavanger Cathedralschool in Stavanger.
He started working on the idea of writing and making a movie back in 2012, after seeing his all-time favorite actor,Leonardo DiCaprio, in the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), which back then became his favourite movie of all time. (That title now belongs to Interstellar (2014)) He started writing the script to his own psychological thriller, Sannhetens løgn (2015), in the first semester of high school, and finished it by the end of 2013, in his second semester. The project got huge support from locals, and financing the movie ended up being not a problem, making the possibilities "endless" for a young director.
Early 2016 he was accepted into Rose Bruford College in London, England alongside 27 other applicants out of over 2000. He wrote and directed his second feature film during college, the film-noir comedy Detective Dover (2018) which was made possible by crowd funding and the use of the college's props and costumes. The film picked up an Audience Choice Award, and Tor was nominated for Best Student Director at Aphrodite Film Awards in New York same year (2018). He graduated September 2019 with his acting degree and managed one Panto tour around the UK as Jack in Jack & The Beanstalk (Christmas 2019) before the 2020 pandemic struck.
He currently resides in London, moving between the UK and Norway for work (2023).
He is the son of Borgny and Tor Bjørn Gudmestad, and he has five older siblings. Tor developed early on a passion for acting and making jokes in front of a crowd, and he ended up attending the local sketch-comedy group at young age. Studying drama in high school seemed as the perfect way to go, and so he did, at Stavanger Cathedralschool in Stavanger.
He started working on the idea of writing and making a movie back in 2012, after seeing his all-time favorite actor,Leonardo DiCaprio, in the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), which back then became his favourite movie of all time. (That title now belongs to Interstellar (2014)) He started writing the script to his own psychological thriller, Sannhetens løgn (2015), in the first semester of high school, and finished it by the end of 2013, in his second semester. The project got huge support from locals, and financing the movie ended up being not a problem, making the possibilities "endless" for a young director.
Early 2016 he was accepted into Rose Bruford College in London, England alongside 27 other applicants out of over 2000. He wrote and directed his second feature film during college, the film-noir comedy Detective Dover (2018) which was made possible by crowd funding and the use of the college's props and costumes. The film picked up an Audience Choice Award, and Tor was nominated for Best Student Director at Aphrodite Film Awards in New York same year (2018). He graduated September 2019 with his acting degree and managed one Panto tour around the UK as Jack in Jack & The Beanstalk (Christmas 2019) before the 2020 pandemic struck.
He currently resides in London, moving between the UK and Norway for work (2023).
