Joachim Rønning
Birthdate: May 30, 1972 (54 Years Old)
Birthplace: Sandefjord, Norway
Joachim Rønning (birthname: Hans Joachim Rønning) began his successful filmmaking career as co-directing partner with his childhood friend, Espen Sandberg, and debuted as co-director in features with writer/producer Luc Besson for the 19th-century Mexico-set crime comedy, Bandidas (2006), co-starring Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz, and with Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Denis Arndt, and Sam Shepard, and released in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox and in Europe by EuropaCorp Distribution. Rønning co-directed (in his second consecutive project with Sandberg) the well-received WWII biopic, Max Manus: Man of War (2008), starring Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Agnes Kittelse, and Petter Naess, making its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
Rønning’s third consecutive movie with directing partner Espen Sandberg was the lauded biopic on experimental ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki (2012), the first Norwegian film to be nominated for the Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film) and Golden Globe (Best Foreign Language Film) and starring Pal Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christensen, Tobias Santelmann and Gustaf Skarsgard, and which was released Stateside by The Weinstein Company. Rønning co-directed, with co-director Sandberg, their first big-budget Hollywood studio production and sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), starring Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwait, and Geoffrey Rush, and which proved a money-maker for Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films with a $796-million global take.
Joachim Rønning stayed with Disney for his first feature solo directorial project and another sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harris Dickinson, Ed Skrein, and Michelle Pfeiffer, delivering a box-office booty of nearly $492 million.
Joachim Rønning directed his third feature for Disney Studios, the swimming biopic Young Woman and the Sea (2024), starring Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Jeanette Hain, and Christopher Eccleston, screening theatrically after Disney had previously determined that the movie would be digital only on Disney+ +.
Rønning remained as a director under the Disney banner for the third Tron installment, Tron: Ares (2025), co-starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Gillian Anderson, and Jeff Bridges, released wide after many delays by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Personal life
Joachim Rønning was born and raised in Sandefjord, Norway, by his parents. Joachim Rønning studied filmmaking at the Stockholm-based film school Stockholms Filmskola, from which he graduated in 1994. Rønning lives in Los Angeles and has been married to Hearst heiress Amanda Hearst since 2019; the couple has three children. Joachim Rønning’s height is 6’ 2¾”.
Joachim Rønning Movies
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- 2025 |
Tron: Ares
A highly sophisticated program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.
- 2024 |
Young Woman and the Sea
The story of competitive swimmer Gertrude Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.
- 2019 |
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
- 2017 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the Trident of Poseidon to rule the sea while being pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle.
Facts About Joachim Rønning
History Buff: Joachim Rønning has displayed a strong interest in Norwegian history, having made two big-budget Norwegian epic biopics about Thor Heyerdahl and Max Manus.
