As per our current Database, Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis is 67 years, 3 months and 27 days old. Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis will celebrate 68rd birthday on a Monday 28th of July 2025. Below we countdown to Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 67 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 28, 1957 (V. Hvidbjerg, Mors, Denmark) |
| Birthday | July 28 |
| Town/City | V. Hvidbjerg, Mors, Denmark |
| Nationality | Denmark |
Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Asbjorn Riis is a Danish professional wrestler, actor and TV personality, who is most famous internationally for portraying the role of the 10th warrior, Halga the Wise, in the movie The 13th Warrior featuring Antonio Banderas.
He is also known for a Hulk Hogan look a like in the early 1990s, where he presented WWF and WCW on danish tv channel name TV3. Riis created his "The Great Dane Bear" in 1991 and has been his image to this day.
He runs a professional wrestling school in Denmark since 1994, and has produced several local house shows all over the country - he is still doing a lot of wrestling shows, mostly for children and still going strong at the age of 51.
Riis originates from the small island of Mors, and his recognizable accent and local jargon has made him an instant fan-favorite, and the subject of many parodies by Danish comedians and entertainers. He is doing a lot work to get people not only on the island Mors but all over Denmark, in motivating them to get in better shape.
In the Danish Wrestling scene, Riis his wrestling school is the only place in Denmark to learn the performing art of professional wrestling,with the spirit of keeping everyone in the best shape possible and learning weight training - coordination - acrobatics and all styles from the wrestling world.
Riis has 4 sons, one of them is Klaus Myren Riis, whom is also a wrestler, trained by his father, and a bodybuilder. He works as a very successful bodybuilding and fashion model.
