Mikael Persbrandt
Biography
Mikael Persbrandt is a Swedish actor who grew up in Jakobsberg, in Stockholm County, and has worked onstage with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In Sweden he is best known for his many appearances as Gunvald Larsson, the hardboiled inspector of the Beck film series, a part he said in 2015 that he would stop playing. International audiences know him for starring in Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (2010), which brought him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. He has also played Carl Hamilton, from Jan Guillou's novels, Beorn in The Hobbit, and Jakob Nyman in the series Sex Education, a role he began in 2019. He twice won the Guldbagge Award as best leading actor, for Everlasting Moments (2008) and for Nobody Owns Me, and he was a leading actor in The Salvation.
63years old
Turns 64 on September 25in 348 days
- Born Jakobsberg
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Mikael Åke Persbrandt (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 29 years1994 to 2023
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Awards
Three awards and honors from 2004 to 2013.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| 2013 | Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nobody Owns Me | Won |
| 2008 | Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | Everlasting Moments | Won |
| 2004 | Ingmar Bergman Award | Won | |
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