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Alexander Karim was born on 26 May 1976 in Helsingborg, Skåne län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Dying of the Light (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Tyrant (2014).- Actor
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Mikael was born in Jakobsberg, Stockholm, Sweden on September 25th 1963. His interest in acting started at an early age when working as an extra in Ingmar Bergman's staging of William Shakespeare's "King Lear."
In the 1990s, Mikael starred in the immensely popular Swedish TV series, "Rederiet" ("The Shipping Company.") which led to other roles in various TV productions. But it wasn't until 1997 when Persbrandt starred as the tough detective, Gunvald Larsson, he got his major break-through. "Beck" was not only a major hit in Sweden but in Germany as well - and (as of 2022) consists of 46 theatrical and television movies based on the characters created by authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöo.
In 2005, Mikael received the highly coveted Ingmar Bergman award from the Guldbagge Awards and in 2006 he earned nominations for Best Actor from both the Bodil (Denmark) and Guldbagge Awards for his performance in Simon Staho's "Bang Bang Orangutang." He also starred in Staho's "Day and Night," which won the Chicago International Film Festival's Silver Hugo Award for Best Ensemble Acting. Further he starred in IFC Films' "Everlasting Moments," for which he earned the 2009 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor. Mikael's other work includes leading roles in the Swedish films "The Hypnotist", "Hamilton - In the Interest of the Nation" , "Någon annanstans i Sverige" (for which he received a 2011 Guldbagge nomination), "Stockholm East," and "Day and Night. He earned another Guldbagge Award in 2014 for Best Actor in Kjell-Åke Andersson's "Nobody Owns Me".
Mikael Persbrandt became internationally known for his leading role in the Academy Award winning foreign feature, "In A Better World," directed by Susanne Bier. His performance earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. Some of his other international work includes the final installment of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, the drama "Someone You Love," which took home the Audience Award for Best International Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the critically acclaimed feature "The Salvation," Some of his more recent roles involves the Netflix success "Sex Education" and "The Kingdom Exodus" directed by Lars von Trier, for which he has received the 2023 Robert Award nomination for Best leading male actor in a TV series.
Mikael also has an extended theatre background with Swedish productions such as "Three Sisters" and "Death of a Salesman" at the Plaza Theatre, "Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti," "The Good Person of Szechwan" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Among his other appearances at the Royal Dramatic Theatre mention can be made of "Maria Stuart" (directed by Ingmar Bergman,) "Don Juan," "The Wild Duck," "Miss Julie" and recently "The Sea Gull." In 2012 Mikael became the owner of the private theatre Maximteatern in Stockholm where he also has participated in several successful plays such as August Strindberg's "The Dance of Death", Shakespeare's "MacBeth" and the latest critically acclaimed play "Så enkel är kärleken" by Lars Norén in 2022.- Actor
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Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman, known professionally as Joel Kinnaman, is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in the Swedish film Easy Money a role that earned him a Guldbagge Award in the "Best Actor" category - and for his role as Frank Wagner in the Johan Falk film series. He starred on AMC's The Killing as detective Stephen Holder, played Alex Murphy in the 2014 reboot of RoboCop, Rick Flag in Suicide Squad and Edward Baldwin in Apple's For All Mankind to name a few.- Actor
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Jakob Eklund was born on 21 February 1962. He is an actor, known for Noll tolerans (1999), Executive Protection (2001) and Run for Your Life (1997). He has been married to Marie Richardson since 12 August 2008. They have two children.- Actor
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Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet achieved the international fame that came after his star turn in Breaking the Waves (1996). Young Alexander was raised under modest circumstances in a working-class Swedish neighborhood as his parents wanted their children to have as normal an upbringing as possible. He began his acting career at the age of eight and continued working in films and on Swedish television until he turned sixteen and decided acting was not the career for him. Life under a microscope lost its charm and perhaps due to the influence of My Skarsgård, his physician mother, he stopped working as an actor, to continue his education.
Instead of continuing college, at the age of nineteen, he entered compulsory military service (military conscription). He used the time to contemplate his future. He studied at the Leeds Metropolitan University then moved to New York where he enrolled at Marymount Manhattan College to study theatre. After six months in New York, a romantic entanglement lured him back to Sweden but the relationship was short-lived. Despite having a broken heart, Alexander decided to stay in Sweden and, with a bit of life experience under his belt, began his acting career again. He appeared in a number of Swedish productions and became a star in his native country but was interested in broadening his horizons and working outside of Sweden. A visit to Los Angeles landed him both an agent and a part in the Ben Stiller movie, Zoolander (2001). After that Alexander returned to Sweden where he continued honing his acting in film and theatrical productions including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Bloody Wedding". He also co-wrote and co-directed an award-winning short, Att döda ett barn (2003), (To Kill a Child), which was shown at both the Tribeca and Cannes Film Festivals.
His first big break was with the miniseries Generation Kill (2008). Alexander spent seven months broiling in the desert of Namibia but it was well worth it. His portrayal of Marine Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert astonished critics and audiences, alike. Thanks to the writer's strike, after completing Generation Kill (2008), he was cast in the role of "Eric Northman", a 1,000-year-old Viking vampire on the hit series, True Blood (2008). The series was created by Alan Ball, the man behind Six Feet Under (2001). True Blood (2008) was adapted from the "Sookie Stackhouse' novels by Charlaine Harris' and rode to success on quality scripts, great acting and the public's obsession with the vampire genre. In addition to True Blood (2008), which begins its third season in 2010, Alexander has a number of film projects in the works including the remake of Straw Dogs (2011), Melancholia (2011), written and directed by Lars von Trier, action Sci-Fi film, Battleship (2012), and The East (2013), directed by Zal Batmanglij.- Actress
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Alexandra Rapaport was born on 26 December 1971 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress and producer, known for Gåsmamman (2015), The Hunt (2012) and Heder (2019). She is married to Joakim Eliasson. They have two children.- Actor
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Gustaf Skarsgård was born on 12 November 1980 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and director, known for Oppenheimer (2023), Westworld (2016) and Vikings (2013).- Actor
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Stellan Skarsgård was born in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Gudrun (Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He became a star in his teens through the title role in the TV-series Bombi Bitt och jag (1968). Between the years 1972-88 he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where he participated in "Vita rum" (1988), August Strindberg's "Ett drömspel" (1986) and "Mäster Olof" (1988). Simultaneously Skarsgård did outstanding film roles, notably in The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982) by Hans Alfredson and with Fred Ward in Noon Wine (1985). The fantastic performance gave him both a well-earned Guldbagge and Silver Berlin Bear. He portrayed the Skagen-painter Sören Kröyer in Hip hip hurra! (1987) and the Swedish ambassador Raoul Wallenberg in God afton, herr Wallenberg (1990), both directed by Kjell Grede. Codename Coq Rouge (1989) and The Democratic Terrorist (1992) he played Jan Guillou's Swedish superagent Carl Hamilton. He also had the leading part in the Oscar nominated The Ox (1991) directed by the world-famous cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Skarsgård did his first (but small) role in an big American film with The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). The role of Captain Tupolev in The Hunt for Red October (1990) was at supposed to be biggest part in a Hollywood-film, but unfortunately it was cut down. His breakthrough instead came with Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) opposite newcomer Emily Watson. After that Skarsgård got several supporting roles in American films, such as in My Son the Fanatic (1997), Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997) and Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997).- Samuel Fröler was born on 24 March 1957 in Madesjö, Kalmar län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Nobel (2016), A Corner of Paradise (1997) and Liv & Ingmar (2012). He was previously married to Anna-Stina Fröler.
- Andreas Wilson was born on 7 March 1981 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Evil (2003), Äkta människor (2012) and Bicycle Bride (2010).
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Swedish actress Noomi Rapace was born in Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden to Swedish actress Nina Norén and Spanish Flamenco singer Rogelio de Badajoz (Rogelio Durán). Her parents did not stay together, and when she was five she moved to Iceland with her mother and stepfather, where she lived for three years. When she was eight she was cast in a small role in the Icelandic film 'Í skugga hrafnsins', and this sparked her love of acting. At 15 she left home and joined the Stockholm Theatre School.
Rapace won the recurring role of Lucinda Gonzales in the Swedish TV series Tre kronor (1994), and also became a respected stage performer. She won critical acclaim for playing the leading role in 2007's Daisy Diamond (2007). In 2009, Rapace came to the attention of international audiences for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009). Her performance was widely praised, and she won the Best Actress prize at Sweden's prestigious Guldbagge Awards. She went on to reprise the role in the sequels, The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009).
Rapace made her English-language film debut in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) alongside Robert Downey Jr. She was also cast as Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012).- Actor
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Born Pär Ola Norell on 3 December, 1971 in Tyresö, Sweden, he is a Swedish actor, best known for his roles in European movies. He grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, raised by his father, who divorced his mother when Rapace was one year old. He studied philosophy at University of Montpellier in France. His first role was the Swedish comedy-drama Together (2000). He then went on to get roles in Swedish television series, such as Tusenbröder (2002) and Wallander (2005). In 2012 he became widely recognizable by playing a minor villain in Skyfall (2012). He was married to Noomi Rapace from 2001 to 2011, they have a son, Lev. In 2019 he married Sonja Jawo. He and Jawo live in Paris, France.- Sofia Papadimitriou Ledarp was born on 8 April 1974 in Hägersten, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009).
- Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Helena af Sandeberg is one of the most proliferate, versatile and acclaimed actresses of her generation. After studying drama at the Sodra Latin High School of Performing Arts, she went on to study at Lee Strasbergs Actors Studio in New York. Upon returning to Sweden she embarked a rich career in features, TV and theatre. Helena has been a permanent member of the "Stockholm City Theatre" ensemble since 2003. Interpreting leading roles in a personal yet universal manner has presented her with great critical acclaim in a large number of plays: "Hedda Gabler", "Three Sisters" and "Anna Karenina", to mention a few. The motion picture industry saw Helena's big break come with "Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake" based on the Hakan Nesser novel by the same name. Movies like "Zingo", "In bed with Santa", "Immediate Boarding", "Cornelis", "I was a Swiss banker", "Dark Water" followed the initial success. TV screen has also proven to be a platform for Helena's versatility. Both drama ("Rederiet"), comedy ("Heja Bjorn") and crime ("Verdict Reviced) have made Helena af Sandeberg a household name. Her latest features are Jesper Ganslandt's family drama "Blondie" and Lasse Hallstrom's thriller "The Hypnotist". Tv audience will have the privilege of seeing her in 2013 in a mini series, "Death of a Pilgrim", dealing with the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
- Francisco Sobrado was born in Bucharest, Romania, by Chilean parents who fled their country after the military takeover in the 70s. Francisco grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, and developed an early passion for movies and theatre.
At age 19 he was accepted into The Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and studied acting for 4 years. After graduation he soon found work in Stockholm City Theatre where he starred in more than 25 different productions, including A street car named desire, Enron, Hamlet, The Cut and The Misson.
He also worked at Uppsala City Theatre where he played Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret as well as playing the title role in Othello at the Swedish National Touring Theatre.
Francisco is also a prolific TV and feature film actor and has starred in Oskyldigt Dömd and Gåsmamman. In 2018 he played the lead the feature film The Imaginary State which was shot in 5 different languages. - Actor
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Johan Ulveson was born on 30 May 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Yrrol - En kolossalt genomtänkt film (1994), Love Me (2019) and The Final Race (2023).- Actor
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Peter Haber was born on 12 December 1952 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and producer, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Sune's Summer (1993) and Jönssonligan & den svarta diamanten (1992). He has been married to Lena T. Hansson since 1990. They have one child.- Rebecka Hemse was born on 4 August 1975 in Södertälje, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Beck (1997), The Searchers (1993) and Höst (1998).
- Ingvar Hirdwall was born on 5 December 1934 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Daybreak (2003) and Children's Island (1980). He was married to Marika Lindström. He died on 6 April 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Stina Rautelin was born on 25 October 1963 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress and director, known for Rederiet (1992), Beck (1997) and 16 (1993). She died on 26 April 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Actress
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Carina Lidbom was born on 9 February 1957 in Östersund, Jämtlands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Faceless Murderer (1995), The White Lioness (1996) and Rederiet (1992).- Actor
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Spending his youth in Skåne, due to his mother's engagement at the Malmö City Theater, wasn't easy for somebody with a Stockholm accent, but Johannes avoided being bullied by cracking jokes and doing pranks. At 18 he applied to acting school but was rejected. He applied successfully later and has since worked in both Malmö and Stockholm. In 1991 he started with stand-up-comedy. During the 1990s he starred in several comedy plays in theaters in Stockholm. He biggest claim to fame though is the role as 'Joker' in the long running TV show "Rederiet".- Andreas Hoffer was born on 27 November 1980 in Sweden. He is an actor, known for Sune's Summer (1993) and Sunes jul (1991).
- Carl-Robert Holmer-Kårell was born on 5 January 1986. He is an actor, known for Eva & Adam - Fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko (2001) and Eva & Adam (1999).
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Ellen Fjæstad was born on 11 February 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Vampyrer (2008), Eva & Adam - Fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko (2001) and Hip hip hora! (2004).- Amanda started out as a 6-year-old in the Swedish short film "Happy Birthday", which she was scouted for during a ballet class. Coming from a family of academics the choice of a life on stage and in front of the camera was far from obvious, still she knew at a very early age that this was her desire. At 16 she starred in the lead role of Sofie in the Swedish drama hit "The Ketchup Effect", and ever since she has been continuously acting in a diversity of productions in Sweden as well as the UK. She is prone to drama productions but longs to explore the world of comedy as well.
Amanda is currently (2015) based in Sweden where she combines her acting with a degree in psychology at Stockholm University. She feels that the study of mind and behavior is the perfect way to gain deeper knowledge about the characters she portrays, and wishes to portray in the future. - Actor
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Björn Kjellman was born on 4 June 1963 in Östra Grevie, Skåne län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Vägen ut (1999), Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003) and Livet är en schlager (2000). He has been married to Kajsa Aronsson since 1994. They have four children.- Samuel Haus was born in 1990 in Iasi, Romania. When his parents died, the teachers Ingrid and Stefan Haus, who live in Spånga, Stockholm, adopted him. He also has a sister named Calina. His biological grandmother is still alive and is still living in Romania. As he himself puts it: "My mother is dead. My dad too. But I have a really nice grandmother in Romania who prays for me every single day." Ever since he was saved from misery, he has used his weekly allowance of 10SEK (aprox. 1,30$) to help children in need by supporting an aid organizations. He also helps support a young child, Sunday Adombila, that lives in Ghana. This he does to somehow, if at all possible, repay the goodness shown to him by the people who saved him from an expected poor life at an orphanage in Romania. Samuel attended, until third grade, the German School in Stockholm which he left to focus on his acting career, which since then hasn't had any major changes.
- Jacob Ericksson was born on 7 January 1967 in Sala, Västmanlands län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009). He is married to Karin. They have one child.
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Sara Sommerfeld is an award-winning multilingual actress. After graduating at the Swedish Theatre Academy in 2001 Sara Sommerfeld gained national recognition with the movie Wings of glass, starring next to Alexander Skarsgard. She Received Best Actress Award at Nordic Film Festival in Haugesund and was nominated Best Female Lead at the Swedish Academy Award "Guldbagge". She has starred in over 40 film and television productions and played over 20 leading roles at the major theaters of Sweden - allowing her to become a versatile actress. Sara is also a trained screenwriter and film director. Today she works both in front and behind the camera combining acting with screenwriting and directing.- Actress
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Tuva Novotny was born on 21 December 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress and director, known for Annihilation (2018), Eat Pray Love (2010) and Blindsone (2018).- Actor
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Olle Sarri was born on 20 January 1972 in Gamla Enskede, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Movie 43 (2013), Together (2000) and The Ape (2009).- Born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, it wasn't until he was over a year old when he was finally adopted from the orphanage he had been given to. His father was a lawyer and his mother a writer. It wasn't until he had his first child that he decided to seek out his biological parents. After a long journey, he met his biological mother who is Swedish and is now close to his biological father who is Italian and a pharmacist.
Acting wasn't always originally on the agenda for Nyqvist. A career in hockey was desired until an injury lead to an early retirement. At the age of 17, Nyqvist went to Omaha, Nebraska in America as an exchange student for a year. This is where his passion for acting first sparked. He took his first acting classes and played in addition to other roles, a part in a school version of the drama Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
However, upon returning to Sweden he got accepted into Ballet school but after one year gave it up insisting he was too "stiff" and twirls and twists were not for him. An ex-girlfriend suggested to try theatre instead and at 19 years old, he was accepted into the Swedish Academic School of Drama in Malmö. He then went onto work mainly in theatre but also had several parts in film productions.
He became well known for his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck (1997) films made in 1997. His big breakthrough in European cinema came three years later, as he starred as Rolf, an alcoholic and abusive husband, in a film by Lukas Moodysson called Together (2000). This role landed him his first Guldbagge nomination (Best Supporting Actor) and won him the Best Actor award at the Gijón International Film Festival.
The accolades, awards and nominations flowed on from there. In 2002, Nyqvist played the leading man in the Swedish romantic comedy-drama, Grabben i graven bredvid (2002) directed by Kjell Sundvall and based on the novel of the same name written by Katarina Mazetti. He won a Best Actor Guldbagge award for his performance. The following year, Nyqvist starred as the leading role in As It Is in Heaven (2004) which was Academy Award nominated for Best Foreign Film and his performance as an internationally renowned, struggling conductor earned Nyqvist his second nomination for a Best Actor Guldbagge award. In 2006, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Guldbagge award for his role in the film Mother of Mine (2005).
Over the next few years he went on to star in several other films and plays as part of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. A notable role that Nyqvist portrayed was that of Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam in the film The Black Pimpernel (2007). Edelstam was a hero that saved several lives from execution in Chile during and after the military coupe in September 1973.
In 2008, it was announced that Nyqvist was chosen to star as Mikael Blomkvist of the literary phenomenon, the Millennium Trilogy written by Stieg Larsson. It was long speculated by Scandinavian tabloids that fellow Swedish actor, Mikael Persbrandt could be chosen for the role of Blomkvist until Niels Arden Oplev claimed that 'he would not have been right for the role.' Oplev needed 'a humanist with his heart in the right place, a Swedish teddy bear whom women would feel safe in his arms...a man who respects women, regardless of what type they are.' Nyqvist's capabilities as an actor and his public persona scored him the role.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and its sequels, The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) were released in 2009 throughout Europe and in the following year, throughout the rest of the world. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has garnered international critical acclaim. Oplev, Noomi Rapace (who starred as Lisbeth Salander, female protagonist of the trilogy) and Nyqvist all gained international recognition. Nyqvist said that his role as Blomkvist 'put me on the map internationally.' As a result he starred in two major Hollywood action movies as the leading villain: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) as Hendricks, and John Wick (2014) as Tarasov. He made other movies in English, and continued to work in Swedish language projects.
He appeared in two films based on novels by well-known Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, Kennedy's Brain (2010) and The Man from Beijing (2011). There was speculation and talk from Mankell that Nyqvist would be his first choice to play Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in 1986, but that project never materialized. Instead, one of his final appearances was as a man who was the diametric opposite of Palme: he played Hendrik Verwoed, the architect of apartheid in South Africa, in Madiba (2017).
Michael Nyqvist was diagnosed with lung cancer, and he passed away of the disease in Stockholm in June 2017, aged 56.
He was married to set designer, Catharina Ehrnrooth and had two children Ellen (born in 1991) and Arthur (born in 1996). - Actor
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Gustaf Hammarsten was born on 2 September 1967 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Brüno (2009), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Together (2000).- Actor
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Johan Rheborg was born on 5 June 1963 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Solsidan (2010), Carmen Curlers (2022) and Kamikaze (2021). He has been married to Kristina since 1989. They have two children.- Actress
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Nina Zanjani was born on 1 September 1981 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Wallander (2005), Agent Hamilton (2020) and Hedda Gabler (2015).- Actress
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Rakel Wärmländer was born on 3 October 1980 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress and producer, known for Limbo (2023), Vuxna människor (2022) and Ur spår (2022).- Jan Fares moved from Lebanon to Sweden in 1988. He lives in Örebro, Sweden with his wife Mariam and youngest daughter Caroline. He has two sons (Fares Fares and Josef Fares) and four daughters. He has worked as a baker among other things. He has also worked as a salesman at a flea market in Örebro (as a hobby).
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Began his acting career in Sweden 2000 with the movie "Jalla! Jalla!". He has been acting in both comedies as well as action movies. He has been acting in theater as well as some TV productions.
In 2012, Mr. Fares started his Hollywood career co-starring with Denzel Washington in the movie "Safe house".- Composer
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Laleh Pourkarim lives in Bjuröklubb, Sweden with her family. She studied music and drama at Hvitfeltska Gymnasiet. Greatest interests include music; she sings and plays the saxophone and percussion instruments in different bands. She likes to play all kinds of music but has a greater bent for folk music, jazz and rhythm and blues.- Anita Wall was born on 11 July 1940 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Scenes from a Marriage (1974), Home (2013) and Rederiet (1992).
- Kare lives with his mother, father and sister in the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. He attends Adolf Fredrik's School of Music, the oldest specialized elementary school in Sweden. In 2008 Kare starred in his first feature film "Let the Right One In". Before that he played the title role in a theatrical production of one of Astrid Lindgren's children's books. He enjoys reading comic books and playing the piano and guitar in his free time.
- Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs was born on 14 December 1992 in Maria Magdalena församling, Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Sebbe (2010), Who the Hell Are Our Untold Story!? and The Sandhamn Murders (2010).
- Joakim Nätterqvist was born on 24 October 1974. He is an actor, known for Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), Kiss Me (2011) and Covert Affairs (2010).
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Filip Berg was born on 2 October 1986 in Danderyd, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for A Man Called Ove (2015), Evil (2003) and Blue Eyes (2014).- Actor
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Rolf Skoglund was born on 11 August 1940 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Moderna människor (1983), Chess (2003) and Långt borta och nära (1976). He was married to Gabriella Skoglund. He died on 28 June 2022 in Sweden.- Claes Månsson was born on 5 February 1950 in Johanneberg, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Vildanden (1989), Welcome to Sweden (2014) and Yrrol - En kolossalt genomtänkt film (1994). He is married to Gudrun Gamell Månsson. They have two children.
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Anastasios Soulis was born on 8 January 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for A Summer Tale (2000), Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser (2009) and Øyenstikker (2001).- Actor
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Adam Reier Lundgren is a Swedish actor born on 15 February 1986 in Gothenburg. He trained at the School of Stage and Music at The University of Stage and Music and at the Swedish Academic School of Drama. He made his screen debut as early as 2004 in an episode of Orka! Orka! (2004). From there, Lundgren went on to appear across several Swedish television series and films during the 2000s and 2010s. He went on to finish the 2010s with a role on the historical TV Mini-Series Chernobyl (2019).- Reine Brynolfsson was born on 15 January 1953 in Annedal, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Les Misérables (1998), Ofelia kommer til byen (1985) and Ravens (2017).
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Claes Malmberg was born on 8 April 1961 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Saltön (2005), Kalle Blomkvist - Mästerdetektiven lever farligt (1996) and Lotta på Bråkmakargatan (1992).- Actor
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Lennart Jähkel was born on 27 September 1956 in Piteå, Norrbottens län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for The Hunters (1996), As It Is in Heaven (2004) and Goda grannar (1987).- Actor
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Peter Harryson was born on 2 April 1948 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. He is an actor and director, known for Rederiet (1992), Pelle Svanslös och den stora sKattjakten (2000) and Hedebyborna (1978).- Actor
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His career began with a bit part at Skansenteatern in Hjalmar Bergman's play 'Markurells i Wadköping' in 1955. The following year he debuted in the movie Swing it, fröken (1956) playing against Alice Babs. He got speech lessons from actress Sif Ruud and worked behind the camera in his father's and Ingmar Bergman's movies. He applied for acting studies at the Royal Dramatic Theatre but failed, but went on to act at Stockholms Stadsteater instead. He also met his first wife, Fatima Ekman whom he married in secret. During the 1960s and 1970s he made a lot of work together with 'Hasseåtage', Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson as well as many plays for Sveriges Television. For TV he created the chaplinesque figure 'Papphammar'. During the 1980s his fame grew even bigger with the successes in the movies about 'Jönssonligan', starting with Beware of the Jonsson Gang! (1981). He has also shown his talent both in dramas and criminal fiction, such as the movies about criminal inspector Martin Beck, for example in _Polis polis potatismos (1993)_.- Actress
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Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved from Finland to Sweden to escape World War 2. Alicia began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The Göteborg Opera, and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm, and the School of American Ballet in New York. She began her professional acting career by appearing in Swedish short films and television series, and first gained recognition in Northern Europe for her role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the TV drama Second Avenue (2007). Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2009), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She attracted widespread recognition in 2012 for portraying Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya in Joe Wright's film adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012), and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair (2012), receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for her breakthrough. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotel (2013)and appeared in the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate (2013) that same year. In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014), an AI in Ex Machina (2014), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), for which she received the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.- Actor
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Allan Svensson got his education at the Acting School in Gothenburg and one of his first roles was as the young Erik in Hedebyborna (1978). He has worked at the Stockholm City Theatre for fifteen years between 1979 and 1994, both as an actor and director. He himself directed Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. His career has mainly been for television, such as Olov Svedelid's police-series about Roland Hassel and as Gustav Svensson in the comedy show Svensson Svensson (1994). He has played Cyrano at the Oscars theatre in Stockholm and August Strindberg's 'Dödsdansen' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.- Actress
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Suzanne Reuter grew up in Gothenburg and studied at the Acting School there 1976-1979. After a few years at the city theatre of Norrköping she made her film debut in Kjell Sundvall's Lyckans ost (1983). During the 1980s the TV audience could see her in comedy sketches in shows such as 'Razzel'. In the TV show 'Lorry' she worked together with Peter Dalle, Johan Ulveson and Claes Månsson, a movie followed by Yrrol - En kolossalt genomtänkt film (1994). Her funny parts has been contrasted in dramas, such as Lars Norén's Som löven i Vallombrosa (1995). Her various talents has made her one of the leading actresses in Sweden at the end of the 1990s.- Actress
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Moa Gammel was born on 6 October 1980 in Sweden. She is an actress and director, known for Let the Right One In (2008), Tack för senast (2022) and Irene Huss (2007).- Actress
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After making the children's TV show 'Disneyklubben' she began to study acting at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm. She graduated with a performance in Lars Norén's play 'Munich-Aten'. She has done a lot of roles for both radio and television. She is currently under contract with The Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she has starred in Bertolt Brecht's 'Puntila' and Tennessee Williams' 'This Property Is Condemned'.- Actress
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Mia Skäringer was born on 4 October 1976. She is an actress and writer, known for The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), Solsidan (2010) and Sunny Side (2017). She has been married to Gabriel Lázár since 2015. They have one child.- Actress
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Lena Endre was born on 8 July 1955 in Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden. She is an actress and writer, known for Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Master (2012) and The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009). She was previously married to Richard Hobert, Thomas Hanzon, Vjeko Benzon and Malte Ekblom.- Actress
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Bahar Pars is an actress known for feature films A Man Called Ove, Handling the Undead and Maya Nilo (Laura). A Man Called Ove was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2017. In 2015, she was awarded the Medea Award with the citation "In her own personal way Bahar Pars widens the ways to play classical female roles and bring them into our present time"- Actress
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Annika Maria Lundqvist born in Gothenburg is the daughter of crafts teacher and accordion player Bert-Ove Lundqvist and teacher Gerd Born Wild Roth. She trained at the Gothenburg Theatre Academy 1983-1986. She has been engaged at Gothenburg City Theatre, Backa Theatre, Folkteatern in Gothenburg, the Stockholm City Theatre the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and with 2Entertain and Vicky's Nöjesproduktion. Maria has, up till now, appeared in 41 feature films and television productions. Maria Lundqvist has been received a large number of prestigious awards. Among those, four Guldbagge prizes. Two for best actress in a leading role in "Den bästa av mödrar" and "Familjehemligheter" and two for best actress in supporting role in "Himlens hjärta" and "Sprängaren". In 2009 she was awarded the Hasse Ekman stipendiet and in 2010 the Povel Ramel Prize Karamelodiktstipendiet..- Marie Göranzon was born on 27 October 1942 in Linköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Day and Night (2004), Everyone Loves Alice (2002) and Beck (1997). She is married to Jan Malmsjö. She was previously married to Lars Amble.
- Gunilla Röör was born on 16 August 1959 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Sommaren (1995), Freud Leaving Home (1991) and The Angel (2009).
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Malin Crépin was born on 22 August 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Lulu (2014), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Nobel's Last Will (2012). She is married to Markus Sundström. They have two children.- Actress
Ann Petrén was born on 25 May 1954 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Border (2018), Daybreak (2003) and Happy End (2011). She has been married to Bengt Berger since 2002.- Actress
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Vanna Rosenberg was born on 3 April 1973 in Farsta, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress and writer, known for Kvarteret Skatan (2003), Chock (1997) and High Rise Life - The Movie (2012). She has been married to Ulf Synnerholm since 2 August 2007. They have two children.- Actress
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Cecilia Forss was born on 12 June 1985 in Falun, Dalarnas län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Simple Simon (2010), Indigo (2014) and Familjen Holstein-Gottorp (2013). She has been married to Fredrik von der Esch since 2020. They have two children.- Actor
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Bill Istvan Gunther Skarsgard is a Swedish actor, producer, director, writer, voice actor, and model. He is best known for portraying Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the supernatural horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. He also voiced the Deviant Kro in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021).- Martin Wallström was born on 7 July 1983 in Uddevalla, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Parallel (2018) and Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser (2009). He was previously married to Lisa Linnertorp.
- Meliz Karlge was born on 23 December 1973 in Bankeryd, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser (2009), Johan Falk: Kodnamn - Lisa (2012) and Johan Falk: Leo Gaut (2009). She has been married to Daniel di Grado since 2006.
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Although born in an acting family, she wanted work that included animals when she was young. At the age of 5, she was in a production of the play 'Klas Klättermus'. When she was a 15 she received a scholarship for studying in USA and moved to Mississippi for a year. During this year she became interested in acting and decided that this was her future. Back in Sweden, she got a role in a TV-series but her first application to become a student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre was rejected. Acting lessons for 'Margreth Weivers' made the third attempt successful. After her studies she worked both at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and Stockholm's City Theatre. She made her breakthrough with 1939 (1989). Colin Nutley saw her face on a poster for The Women on the Roof (1989) and cast her for his movie BlackJack (1990). She was also the obvious choice for his next movie, House of Angels (1992). Critics have called her 'the new Ingrid Bergman'- Actress
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Pernilla August started acting as a child, performing in plays at Vår teater and at school. In 1979 she was accepted at the Statens scenskola to study acting professionally. Director Ingmar Bergman took note of her early and cast her as a nanny in his Fanny and Alexander (1982).
In 1982 she got married to author Klas Östergren and started work at the Folkteatern in Gävle, appearing in August Strindberg's A Dreamplay and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. She returned a few years later to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm for roles in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (as Nora).
Until then she hadn't had any bigger experience of television or movies but Ingmar Bergman specifically asked for her to play his mother in the biographical The Best Intentions (1992) By then her marriage was over and she started a relationship with director Bille August whom she married in 1991 - and had her name changed for the second time. He offered her a role in his The House of the Spirits (1993), but due to her pregnancy the role went to Winona Ryder instead.
She has admirably managed an international career despite having three daughters. She is best known for her appearances in films like Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) or I Am Dina (2002).- Actress
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Ing-Marie Carlsson was born on 25 February 1957 in Jönköping, Jönköpings län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for My Life as a Dog (1985), Reine & Mimmi i fjällen! (1997) and Tre kronor (1994).- Actor
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Rikard Wolff was born on 8 April 1958 in Farsta, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for House of Angels (1992), Änglagård - Tredje gången gillt (2010) and Änglagård - Andra sommaren (1994). He died on 17 November 2017 in Sweden.- Actress
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Sissela Benn was born on 14 May 1980 in Sweden. She is an actress and writer, known for Hjälp! (2007), Allsång på Skansen (1979) and Sune vs. Sune (2018).- Actor
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Björn Skifs was born on 20 April 1947 in Vansbro, Dalarnas län, Sweden. He is an actor and composer, known for Strul (1988), The Snowman (2017) and Joker (1991). He has been married to Pernilla Skifs since 1988. They have two children.- Actress
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Lena Nyman was born on 23 May 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress and writer, known for Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984), I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and Autumn Sonata (1978). She was married to Jan Lundström. She died on 4 February 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Actor
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Jan Malmsjö studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1950-1953. He made a memorable performance in 'Två åsnor' at Göteborgs stadsteater in 1958, in Åke Falck's TV-show 'Kaskad' in 1962 and in the musicals 'Stoppa världen - jag vill stiga av' at Scalateatern in 1963 and in 'La Cage aux Folles' at Malmö stadsteater in 1985. Among his roles at the Royal Dramatic Theatre the title role in 'Peter Weiss'' 'Hölderin' stand out. His movies have been relatively few, most memorable is his role as Bishop Vergérus in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982). With his charisma he can fully control his audience, be it at restaurants, amusement parks or the spoken stage.- Actress
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Liv Mjönes was born on 18 September 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Kiss Me (2011), Midsommar (2019) and A Serious Game (2016).- Actress
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Cecilia Frode was educated at Malmö Theatre Academy, Sweden, 1991-94. She got her breakthrough on stage in Shakespeare's "As you like it" 1996 at Göteborgs Stadsteater. Since then, Cecilia has played many different leading roles on stage in Sweden. Her most recent stage performances took place at the Playhouse Theater, Stockholm, where she portrayed the lead, Rosalind Franklin, in "Photograph 51" and Claire in "Apologia". She won Guldbaggen (the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Award) for best supporting actress for "Klassfesten" in 2003. In 2015, Cecilia received the Angela Award for outstanding acting at the European film festival Subtitles in Kilkenny, Ireland for her part in the movie "Stockholm Stories". Cecilia has played supporting roles and leading roles in feature films such as "Sthlm Rekviem", "Tårtgeneralen " and "Stockholm Stories" etc - and TV-series "Blå ögon", "Coacherna" & "God morgon alla barn" etc. Popular Swedish TV-series "Mäklarna", where Cecilia played the female lead as Vilma, it was a big hit in 2006 and she was nominated for the Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo tv festival for Outstanding actress-comedy series. And the sequel of "Mäklarna" is recently made, Vilma fifteen years later, in 2021. Cecilia Frode has also written, composed music for, and produced one-woman-theater-shows "Ängelen" and "A tail in the sky". Both shows successfully went on national tours in Sweden. They were also adapted for broadcast on Swedish national TV. In 2017, miss Frode wrote and starred in the musical theatre show "From the blue cabinet" that went on tour produced for Musik i Syd, Sweden.- Mikael Almqvist was born in 1964. He is an actor, known for Beck (1997), LasseMajas detektivbyrå (2020) and Top Dog (2020).
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Kjell Bergqvist was born on 23 February 1953 in Enskede, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for A Summer Tale (2000), Evil (2003) and Bröllopsfotografen (2009). He has been married to Karin Bergqvist since 2004. They have one child. He was previously married to Yvonne Ryding-Bergqvist.- Actress
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Kajsa Ernst is a Swedish actress. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Kajsa trained as an actor at Malmö Theatre Academy. After her education she worked at Helsingborg City Theatre for 10 years. In 1998 she moved to Stockholm and made her first feature film In Bed with Santa (1999). For her part in Dalecarlians (2004) she won the Guldbagge Award for Best actress in a supporting role. Kajsa has worked many years at the City Theatre of Stockholm and at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Kajsa gained recognition for the TV-series Finaste familjen (2016)(2016-2019). For three seasons she has done the part as Ann. Both Kajsa and The series has been nominated for the Swedish TV-award "Kristallen".- Robert Gustafsson was born on 20 December 1964 in Katrineholm, Södermanlands län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), Fyra nyanser av brunt (2004) and The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016). He has been married to Lotta since 1988. They have two children.
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David Hellenius was born on 28 February 1974 in Järfälla, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Godafton Sverige (2003), The Final Race (2023) and Hey Baberiba (2005). He has been married to Renée Nyberg since 31 December 2009. They have one child.- Actor
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Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Upper Secondary school, Gymnasium at Östra Real in Stockholm. Studied film at San Francisco State University and Santa Monica College for three years and American University in London for one year.
Began his Comic career with candid camera show Pjamas in ZTV in Sweden, where he took in David Hellenius season two.- Born in the northern Polish town of Bialystok, Izabella Scorupco moved to Sweden with her mother as a young child. She studied drama and music and, at 17, was discovered by a Swedish film director who cast her in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (1988), which made her a local teen idol. She then became a successful model in Sweden and throughout Europe, where she made good use of her fluency in four languages.
In 1989, Scorupco displayed another facet of her talents, launching her career as a pop singer with her first single, Substitute. The single and subsequent album, IZA, both went gold, and she followed with another hit single, Shame, Shame, which she recorded in 1991. Returning to acting in 1994, she immediately won the lead role in the Swedish film The Tears of Saint Peter (1995). Scorupco stars as a woman who lives her life as a man in the medieval drama, which was released in August 1995.
Shortly after Izabella received international attention after landing the leading female role in the Bond movie "Goldeneye" starring against Pierce Brosnan. In 2000 she played one of the adventurers in "Vertical limit" and went on to the lead female in the science-fantasy movie "Reign of fire" against Matthew Mc Conaughey and Christian Bale. In 2004 Izabella acted against fellow Swede Stellan Skarsgård in the Renny Harlin film "The Exorcist- the beginning". After a couple of roles in American TV-series, Izabella decided to work on the Scandinavian market again, first in the crime/thriller story "Solstrom" against Michael Persbrandt and and then onto the drama "Guardian angel", a heartbreaking story opposite Michael Nyqvist. Izabella tried a whole different genre in 2014 when she starred the in the hit comedy movie "Micke and Veronica". Izabella resides in Los Angeles with her two teenage kids and three dogs. - Actor
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Messiah is a stand-up comedian, actor, radio-host, compere, and hostess från Stockholm, Sweden. He has participated in several TV-shows such as "Roast på Berns" , "Ballar av stål", "Let's dance", "RAW comedy club" and "Comedy Fight Club".
As an actor, he has participated in comics such as "Stockholm-Båstad", "Finaste Familjen" and his own series on SVT - "Messiah - Savior" and "Messiah - för Sverige i tiden". He has also begun to produce his own very successful podcast: "Geniförklarat".
In the fall of 2017, Messiah Hallberg was performing with his solo performance "Messiah den missförstådde profeten" who received great reviews. In the same year he was also choired to "Male Comic of the Year" in the Swedish standup gala.- Actor
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When Tommy Körberg was born, his mother was unmarried and the relationship with the father had already ended so he spent his first year in a foster home until his mother met a new man, an alcoholic musician that made his childhood into a living hell.
At the age of 16 he dropped out of school and started the rock band Bootleggers. In time the band changed its name to The Maniacs and in 1968 they were on top of the charts with "Somebody's Taken Maria Away'. In 1969 he made his solo debut with album "Nature Boy". In the same year he made his first appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 (1969), with the song Judy min vän' which was a big success in Sweden. He had a minor role in Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984) and a leading role in Benny Andersson's and Björn Ulvaeus' musical 'Chess'. He also appeared a second time in the The Eurovision Song Contest (1988).
The 1990s has meant further successes in musicals like Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Tommy Körberg has been known for speaking his mind about other artists in Sweden and has a strained relationship with the press. He has been married twice and his family now lives in Oslo, Norway.- Ewa Fröling was born on 9 August 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Fanny and Alexander (1982) and Sally and Freedom (1981).
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Allan Edwall was born in a working class home in Jämtland, Sweden in 1924. His father was a trade-union man and a communist. 1949-52 he attended Stockholm's Royal Daramatic Theatre School. Through the years he made more than 400 parts in theater, film, television and radio. He was also a director, an author, a composer and a singer. On records he sang his own songs where he attacked the injustices in our society. From 1986 and for the remaining years he ran his own theater 'Brunnsgatan 4' in Stockholm, where he did everything by himself, from acting to selling tickets.- Swedish-born Lena Olin already had a successful career as an actress before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and was directed by Ingmar Bergman. She was born in Stockholm, to actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin, who appeared in six of Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family". As a young actress, she played in the great classics of William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. She made her international debut as a movie actress in After the Rehearsal (1984) (aka "After the Rehearsal"), directed by Bergman. In western Europe, she became well-known in the political movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) as "Sabina", in a story about the Prague spring (1968). After coming to the US, she played mostly distinguished, exotic temptresses, intelligent women and crude vamps. Bergman had developed Lena's artistic gift to play different human emotions and express them in a subtle way. Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa (1985), rewrote the screenplay for Havana (1990) especially for her. This explains why this film recalls associations with the classic Casablanca (1942), starring Ingrid Bergman, also from Sweden. Olin received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Enemies, A Love Story (1989). She went on to have a choice role in Chocolat (2000), which received a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She made a move to the smaller screen and played the role for one season as the deliciously evil "Irina Derevko", the mother to Jennifer Garner's "Sydney Bristow" in the series Alias (2001). Olin received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.