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Alexander Skarsgård Actor, You'll Be the Death of Me Sweden may not have a large population but it has gifted the world with bounty of astonishing directors and actors. Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow and Ingrid Bergman are just the tip of the iceberg of Nordic actors and filmmakers who have enchanted and engaged cinemaphiles across the globe: Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård is poised to join their ranks... | |
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Malin Akerman Actress, Watchmen Malin was born in Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her father is an insurance-broker and her mother is a model. 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... | |
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Gustaf Skarsgård Actor, Evil | |
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Joel Kinnaman Actor, Pilot | |
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Dolph Lundgren Actor, The Expendables Dolph Lundgren was born in Stockholm and lived there until the age of 13, when he moved to his grandparents in Nyland, Ångermanland, Sweden. Despite an early interest in music and the fine arts, Dolph decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue an Engineering degree. After having completed his military service, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm... | |
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Lena Olin Actress, The Ninth Gate 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. Her father, Stig Olin, was also an actor and played in six of Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family"... | |
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Lasse Hallström Director, Chocolat | |
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Michael Nyqvist Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 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... | |
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Mini Anden Actress, Ocean's Twelve | |
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Greta Garbo Actress, Ninotchka Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 1905. She was 14 when her father died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store. The store used her for her modeling abilities for newspaper ads. She had no film aspirations... | |
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Matias Varela Actor, Easy Money | |
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Alexandra Rapaport Actress, The Hunt | |
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Bibi Andersson Actress, Persona Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom, playing against Nils Poppe... | |
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Christian Wennberg Actor, From Trauma Cometh Something | |
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Andreas Wilson Actor, Evil | |
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Jonas Åkerlund Director, Spun | |
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Eva Röse Actress, Kopps 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... | |
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Benny Andersson Soundtrack, The Hangover Part II Benny Andersson was born in 1946 outside of Stockholm, Sweden. His father and grandfather both being musicians, Benny was introduced to the accordion at an early age. With little patience for conventional music lessons, Benny is known to pick up just about any instrument and play it with ease. After he left high school... | |
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Leif Andrée Actor, Kitchen Stories | |
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Nina Norén Actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Gunnar Björnstrand Actor, The Seventh Seal Gunnar Björnstrand made his debut on the Hippodrom-theatre in Malmö, but later worked mainly in Stockholm at various theatres. In film he began playing comedic roles as authoritarian characters with inclination for sadism, for example in Nils Poppe's Bom-series. But it was with Ingmar Bergman that the challenge and fame came: from the 1950s comedies... | |
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Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen Actress, Batman & Robin Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen was born in Stockholm on January 12th, 1967. She was first discovered at a restaurant in Sweden at the age of 13 by Eileen Ford. Within 3 to 4 months, of arriving in the US, she was negociating a contract with 'Elizabeth Arden'. When her contract with Arden ended she started working with Almay as their spokesperson... | |
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Peter Haber Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Tora Hallstrom Actress, Hachi: A Dog's Tale | |
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Nina Zanjani Actress, Mind the Gap | |
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Erland Josephson Actor, The Sacrifice Erland Josephson, the distinguished Swedish actor best known for his appearance in Ingmar Bergman's films, was born in Stockholm, Sweden on June 15, 1923. Josephson's relationship with Bergman, a long-time friend, began in the late 1930s when they first worked together in the theater. Although he was in several motion pictures in the late 1940s and early '50s... | |
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Daniel Alfredson Director, The Girl Who Played with Fire | |
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Gustaf Hammarsten Actor, Brüno | |
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Eagle Eye Cherry Soundtrack, Billy Elliot | |
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Bengt Ekerot Actor, The Seventh Seal | |
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Josephine Bornebusch Actress, The Dog Trick | |
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Felix Herngren Actor, Vuxna människor Born in 1967. Herngren is a TV, film and commercials director, writer, producer and actor. His breakthrough came in the hit television-series Smash, and his on screen characters Papi Raul, Dan Bäckman and Tim Hibbins have all become cult icons. Herngren runs his own production company FLX 2.0, established in early 2007... | |
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Sven-Bertil Taube Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Gösta Ekman Actor, The Adventures of Picasso 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! 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... | |
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Per Oscarsson Actor, Hunger | |
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Rafael Edholm Actor, Den eneste ene Started out as a figurant at 17 in Ingmar Bergmans production of King Lear at the Royal Swedish Dramaten Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to that he had no acting experience at all. He grew up thinking ice hockey would be the game of his life. Moved to New York, USA to take acting lessons and lived abroad for ten years... | |
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Monica Ekman Actress, Maid in Sweden | |
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Marika Green Actress, Pickpocket | |
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John Ajvide Lindqvist Writer, Let the Right One In | |
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Lia Boysen Actress, The New Country | |
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Börje Ahlstedt Actor, Fanny and Alexander | |
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August Strindberg Writer, Miss Julie He started to study at the Uppsala University but dropped out to pursue an economically unstable career as a journalist. In 1872 he published the first of his many masterpieces, 'Mäster Olof'. In 1874 he got a position at the Royal Library in Stockholm, which enabled him to marry 'Siri von Essen'. He published his novel 'Röda rummet' in 1879... | |
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Fredrik Hiller Actor, Beowulf | |
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Ulla Andersson Actress, Luftburen | |
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Sofia Eng Actress, Wild Wild West | |
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Stefan Sauk Actor, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Ulf Bjorlin Miscellaneous Crew, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Robyn Carlsson Soundtrack, The Vow | |
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Sofia Ledarp Actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
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Stig Olin Actor, Mord, lilla vän A distinguished actor, director and composer in Sweden; Stig Olin made his success in many areas of the Swedish entertainment business in the 1940s and 50s. As an actor, he claimed success when he played boyish characters and naive students on film. He was the actor who eventually took the claim of playing Ingmar Bergman's alter-ego in many of his early films... | |
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