Favorite Swedish actors/actresses
This list is unfinished but being as IMDB are shutting down all messageboards on 20 february I thought I might as well make it public so it wasn't just sitting here listed as private as the likeliness of me ever completing it if they go ahead with that is about as big being hit by lightning... twice... while reading a Swedish translation of the autobiography of Malcolm X
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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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Shanti Roney was born on 24 November 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Vägen ut (1999), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) and Stockholm (2018).- Actor
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Jonas Karlsson was born on 11 March 1971 in Salem, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for The Snowman (2017), Harmonica (2022) and Cockpit (2012).- Eric Ericson was born on 21 November 1974 in Sollentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), Sjätte dagen (1999) and Storstad (1990). He is married to Tove Wiréen.
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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".- 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'.- Actor
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Björn Bengtsson was born on 28 October 1972 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for The Last Kingdom (2015), Tjockare än vatten (2014) and Bröderna Karlsson (2010).- 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.- Actor
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Peter Stormare was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions of many Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet". In 1993 he moved to New York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.- 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.His best work is in his native tongue... that's not a sexual reference btw- Johanna Sällström was born on December 30, 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1997 she won the award Guldbaggen for best female leading role in the movie Under ytan (1997), which became her big breakthrough. Getting tired off all the interest around herself she moved to Denmark where she worked at a café shop, but in year 2000 she went back to Sweden and continued her acting career. She was best known for playing the police agent Linda Wallander in Wallander (2005). Even though Johanna Sällström often played tough on the screen, it is said she was much more shy and quiet in her private life.
Sällström was found dead by the police at her home in Malmö, Sweden on 13th of February 2007. - Actor
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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.- 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.- Actress
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Frida Hallgren was born on 16 December 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress and director, known for As It Is in Heaven (2004), 30:e november (1995) and The Searchers (1993).- Actor
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He started acting school in Malmö and went from there to the Skånska Teatern in Landskrona, performing in plays by Shakespeare or Brecht. He made a breakthrough as Puck in William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream'. He also met his wife Birgitta there. The 1990s meant a lot of work in front of the camera, playing a string of policemen, most notably Kurt Wallander from Henning Mankell's crime novels.- 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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Malin was born in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her mother, Pia (Sundström), is a model and aerobics instructor, and her father, Magnus Åkerman, is an insurance broker. They moved to Toronto when she was age 2. At age 5, she began appearing in TV commercials. Her parents divorced when she was 6 and her father returned to Sweden.
At age 17, she won the Canadian title of Ford Supermodel. This enabled her to spend 3 years as a catwalk model in Europe. She decided to become a child psychologist and enrolled in York University but she was offered a guest role in Earth: Final Conflict (1997) so she turned her attention back to acting. She moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and won roles in both TV and film. Her breakthrough role came when she was cast as Silk Spectre II in Watchmen (2009).she wasn't swedish for very long but heyoh